The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

About 20 casualties and injuries in rocket shelling targeted Kafr Nubl, and more barrel bombs and air raids target the “de-escalation” area

The Syrian Observatory documented the death of a child and a woman in intensive rocket shelling carried out by the regime forces on Kafr Nubl town in the southern sector of Idlib countryside, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are more than 17 injured people and some of them are in serious situations, while a citizen was killed in bombardment by regime’s warplanes on places in Khan Shaykhun city, and in the same context, the aerial and ground bombardment and shelling by regime’s warplanes, helicopters, and ground forces continue to target places in the southern sector of Idlib countryside and the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama, where regime’s warplanes carried out 3 new raids on al-Hbit town, coincided with dropping of more than 6 new barrel bombs on the town, also regime’s warplanes carried out several raids on Kafr Zita north of Hama, and the helicopters dropped 5 barrel bombs on each of al-Naqir and the outskirts Tremla, while the regime forces renewed the intensive ground shelling targeting places on the outskirts of Kafr Nabudah and other places in the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama, also places on the outskirts of Hass were under rocket shelling by the regime forces.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 257, the number of people who were killed since the 30th of April 2019, the date of start of the most violent escalation in terms of aerial and ground bombardment, shelling, and targeting since Putin-Erdogan agreement, and they are: 99 civilians including 14 children and 27 citizen women, and they are 29 including 5 female children and 8 women, another woman and two of her children, were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 21 including 7 women and a child girl were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 30 including 6 women, 5 children, and a member of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 18 people including 8 women and a child were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and a civilian was killed in shelling by the factions of al-Suqaylabiyah, while at least 86 of the jihadi groups were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s shelling, in addition to the killing of 72 members of the regime forces in targeting and shelling by jihadi groups and factions.

And with the fall of more casualties, the death toll rises in the heaviest continuous escalation on its 18th day, to 409 persons in the period since the morning of the 20th of April 2019, until the 10th of May 2019, they are 148 civilians including 27 children and 36 women, were killed in the Russian air bombardment and regime forces’ shelling on areas in Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, and Idlib, including 5 civilians casualties were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions on Aleppo city, al-Hadir town south of Aleppo, al-Khandeq village, and al-Suqaylabiyah town in Hama countryside, 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 104 of the jihadi groups and the factions were killed in attacks and clashes against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and 138 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 10th of May 2019, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 785 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 386 civilians including 97 children under the age of eighteen and 94 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 29 people including 6 children under the age of eighteen and 5 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 172 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 110 fighters of the “jihadis” and 216 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.

While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented since the start of the Russian – Turkish truce the death of 1015 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 467 civilians including 129 children and 106 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, targeting, and bombardment by warplanes, and among them there are 32 people including 6 children and 5 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 239 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 125 of the “Jihadi” fighters and 23 fighters of Jaysh al-Izza, who were killed in ambushes and clashes including a commander at least, they were killed in ambushes and attack by the regime forces in the northern countryside of Hama, and 309 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.