The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In conjunction with bringing in large military reinforcements…the regime forces and their warplanes continue their heavy targeting to the areas of the alleged truce and the demilitarized zone

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored ongoing aerial and rocket shelling today evening, Monday, within the areas of the Russian – Turkish truce and Putin – Erdogan demilitarized zone, while the regime’s warplanes targeted by heavy machineguns, places in Al-Amqiyyah and Jesr Bayt al-Ras villages in Sahl Al-Ghab in the north-western countryside of Hama, and other places in Al-Hbit town and the outskirts of Nqeir village south of Idlib, while the Russian helicopters targeted areas in Al-Lataminah town in the northern countryside of Hama by missiles, also the regime forces shelled today evening, places in Al-Lataminah and Kafr Nabudah north of Hama, and Al-Zammar and Jazraya in the southern countryside of Aleppo, as well as other places in Qalaat al-Madiq in Sahl Al-Ghab, in the same context, the SOHR learned from a number of reliable sources that the Russian forces have brought military and engineering vehicles in addition to logistic reinforcements to farm lands south-west of Hayalin village in the western countryside of Hama, where they have bulldozed the area and set up tents there, the Syrian Observatory also learned that the regime forces have brought large and new military reinforcements of vehicles and soldiers towards their areas in Hama countryside near the countryside of Idlib.

And the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that the regime’s warplanes carried out an air raid at sundown on Monday targeting places in al-Hawash village in Sahl al-Ghab, while the regime forces shelled after on the afternoon of Monday places in Bidama and the vicinity of al-Z’einiyyeh in the western countryside of Jisr al-Shughur and places in Lahaya in the northern countryside of Hama, and other places in Qal’aat al-Madiq in Sahl al-Ghab and al-Arima in Jabal Shashabo, in addition to shelling targeted al-Hbit town in the southern countryside of Idlib, and in the same context, factions of the “National Liberation Front” targeted using guided missile a tank of the regime forces in Ta’ouma area in the northern countryside of Latakia which damaged it, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that intensive artillery shelling carried out by the regime forces on area of camps for the displaced people and the vicinity of Sher Mghar village in which there is a Turkish point in the northwestern countryside of Hama, which killed 2 citizens and injured other displaced people, where the displaced people established primitive tents close to the Turkish point to escape the horror of the escalating military operations, perhaps approaching points of the Turkish guarantor may protect them from death, and reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that after the today’s bombing the citizens tried to resort to the Turkish point, to take refuge, but members of the point opened fire in the air attempting to prevent the people from entering the point, followed by a fire carried out by gunmen targeting the displaced people, and in the same context, the factions operating at the northern countryside of Hama targeted by mortar shells areas in al-Aziziya village in the western countryside of Hama, which is controlled by the regime forces, while the Russian warplanes escalated the shelling on areas in al-Jabriya village in the northern countryside of Hama and outskirts of Baarbu village in the southwestern countryside of Idlib.

And with the fall of more casualties, the death toll of casualties rises in the heaviest continuous escalation on its 9th day, to 163 persons in the period since the morning of the 20th of April 2019, until the 29th of April 2019, they are 49 civilians including 12 children and 11 women, were killed in the Russian air bombardment and regime forces’ shelling on areas in Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, and Idlib, including 4 civilians casualty was killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions on Aleppo city, and 19 people were killed in the explosion of a truck loaded with high-explosive materials owned by the jihadi groups in Jisr al-Shughur city west of Idlib, and 28 of the jihadi groups were killed in attacks and clashes against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and 67 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed in attacks by the jihadi groups on several areas of the demilitarized area.

And during the period between the 15th of February 2019 and the 29th of April 2019, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 530 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 286 civilians including 83 children under the age of eighteen and 68 woman over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the Russian aerial bombardment and the rocket shelling by the regime forces and the factions, and among the death toll of civilians there are 28 people including 6 children under the age of eighteen and 6 citizens over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 88 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 54 fighters of the “jihadis” and 156 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.