The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The regime’s warplanes and helicopters carry out a horrific massacre today evening in the western countryside of Idlib leaving 7 children and women dead

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented a spike in the number of casualties to 7, they are 5 children and 2 citizen women who were killed due to aerial bombardment by the regime’s warplanes and helicopters which targeted Muhambal town in the western countryside of Idlib today evening, while it rose to 95, the number of raids carried out by the regime’s warplanes since today’s morning, targeting Kafrsajna, Om Zaytouna, Rakaya Sajna, the surroundings of Sheikh Mustafa, Bsaqla, Hass, Kafr Nubl, Ma’aret Hurmah, Sehyan, Khan Shaykhun, Bsida, Horsh Basenqul, Armanaya, Kara Hish, the outskirts of Al-Arba’in and Tremla in the southern countryside of Idlib, Muhambal in the western countryside of Idlib, the outskirts of al-Bawabiyyah in the southwestern countryside of Aleppo, and the vicinity of Al-Lataminah, Latmin and Murak north of Hama, while the Russian warplanes carried out more than 34 raids since after midnight of yesterday on places in the vicinity of al-Neirab village – the brick factory east of Ariha city, and on the road between Ariha and Saraqib, and Khan Shaykhun, Kafrsajna, Hish and Rakaya Sajna south of Idlib, Al-Arba’in village in Hama countryside, also the SOHR monitored more than 40 barrel bombs dropped by helicopters on al-Lataminah, the vicinity of Kafr Zita, and al-Sayyad in the northern countryside of Hama, Kabani area in the northern countryside of Latakia, and Muhambal town in the western countryside of Idlib, while the SOHR monitored rocket shelling today evening by the rebel factions on positions of the regime forces in Jurin, Al-Aziziyyeh, Al-Rasif, Qabr Faddah, Al-Suqaylabiyah, Buraydij, Al-Hammamiyat, Kernaz and Sheikh Hadid in the north-western countryside of Hama, while it rose to 330, the number of artillery and missile shells launched by the regime forces since midnight until now, targeting places in Al-Hbit, al-Naqir, Abdeen, Mdaya, Deir Sunbul, and al-Sahriyya in the southern countryside of Idlib, and al-Lataminah, Kafr Zita, al-Zakat, Tal Meleh, al-Jabin, Hwyja, al-Hwash, al-Mshik, al-Qarqour, Zayzoun Station, and al-Ziyara in Sahl al-Ghab northwest of Hama, and the outskirts of Beshqatin village in the western countryside of Aleppo.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 2139, 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 5th of July 2019, and they are: 558 civilians including 143 children and 108 citizen women, and they are 62 including 19 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 49 including 11 women and 8 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 337 including 89 children, 62 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 39 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 858 of the jihadi groups were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s shelling including 543 of the Jihadis, in addition to the killing of 723 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 5th of July 2019, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 2668 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 845 civilians including 229 children under the age of eighteen and 172 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 67 people including 24 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 944 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 588 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 879 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 2897  people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 926 civilians including 257 children and 186 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 69 people including 24 children and 12 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1011 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 602 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 960 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.