The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In 72 hours, more than 3000 air and ground strikes along with battles of the 3 villages kill 205 of the civilians, regime forces, factions, and Jihadis

The past 72 witnessed increased killings through areas’ attrition battles in the northern countryside of Hama, and through massacres caused by the intense aerial and ground bombardment on “Putin – Erdogan” area, where since Tuesday, the 18th of June 2019, until the evening of Thursday, the 20th  of the same month, and the area witnessed more than 436 air strikes, where regime’s warplanes carried out 331 air raids, the Russian guarantor’s warplanes carried out 74 air raids, and the helicopters dropped 31 barrel bombs, while the regime forces and the factions launched more than 2610 shells and missiles on areas of control of each other’s in the “de-escalation” area, also the northern countryside of Hama witnessed several rounds of attrition battles within the battle of the 3 villages (Kafrhoud -al-Jabin – Tal Meleh) in addition to al-Jalma, between the rebel and Islamic factions and the jihadi groups against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them with Russian support.

The Syrian Observatory documented heavy casualties in the past 72 hours, where 205 people were killed since last Tuesday until Thursday evening, they are: 47 civilians including 13 children, 6 citizen women, and 3 of the rescue teams, they were killed in the aerial bombardment by regime’s warplanes and the Russian warplanes, and in shelling by the regime forces, and 102 of the fighters, they are: 53 of the rebel and Islamic factions and 49 of the Jihadis, they were killed in aerial and ground shelling and clashes in the clash areas in the northwestern countryside of Hama, and 56 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed during the battles.