The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the death of 35 people yesterday, more than 170 air and ground strikes target “Putin – Erdogan” area as the heaviest escalation enters its 65th day

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored several raids by regime’s warplanes on Wednesday morning, targeting places in Rakaya Sajna, Hish, and Babulin in the southern sector of Idlib countryside, and the vicinity of the 46th regiment in the western countryside of Aleppo, also the Russian warplanes targeted this morning Khan Shaykhun city in the southern countryside of Idlib, while the helicopters dropped 4 barrel bombs on Kabani area in Jabal al-Akrad this morning, also the Russian “guarantor’s ” warplanes carried out several air raids after midnight of yesterday on places in al-Hamama area in the countryside of Jisr al-Shughur city, where they targeted a camp of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the area but no information about casualties until now, while the regime forces launched more than 150 rocket and artillery shells targeting areas in al-Lataminah, Kafr Zita, and Latmin in the northern countryside of Hama, and Sfuhen, Baarbu, Hasanah, al-Naqir, Abdeen, and the vicinity of Khan Shaykhun in the southern countryside of Idlib, and Zammar and Jazraya south of Aleppo.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 2122, 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, until the 2nd of July 2019, and they are: 543 civilians including 134 children and 105 citizen women, and they are 60 including 18 children and 16 women, another woman and two of her children, were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 43 including 9 women and 5 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 332 including 86 children, 61 women, and 4 members of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 71 people including 11 women and 9 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and 37 citizens including 16 children and 8 women were killed in shelling by the factions on al-Suqaylabiyah, Qamhana, Al-Nairab Camp, neighborhoods in Aleppo city and its southern countryside, while at least 857 of the jihadi groups were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s shelling including 542 of the Jihadis, in addition to the killing of 722 members of the regime forces in targeting and shelling by jihadi groups and factions.

And during the period between the 15th of February 2019; the date of the meeting of “Rouhani – Erdogan – Putin” until the 2nd of July 2019, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 2651 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 830 civilians including 220 children under the age of eighteen and 169 women 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 65 people including 22 children under the age of eighteen and 14 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 943 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 587 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 878 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 2883 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 911 civilians including 248 children and 183 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 67 people including 22 children and 12 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1010 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 601 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 959 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.