The jihadi groups and factions resist an advancement attempt in Idlib countryside .. and 22 casualties in the ranks of the regime forces including an officer due to the battles in the “de-escalation” zone

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the killing of 4 members of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them including a major, in addition to the killing of 2 members of jihadi factions, in today’s clashes in Al-Hwaija area in Sahl Al-Ghab in the north-western countryside of Hama province.

SOHR also monitored an attempt by the regime forces to advance into A’jaz area in Idlib countryside, to recover the areas they lost today, in conjunction with heavy ground shelling on the eastern countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man, the regime forces also shelled Kafr Nubl town with surface-to-surface missiles, without information about casualties.

Thus, the number of casualties in the ranks of the regime forces and jihadi organizations of those who were killed in today’s battles in the eastern countryside of Idlib, rose to 32 they are: 18 members of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, as well as 14 fighters including 11 jihadists.

In the same context, a citizen from Saraqib town died affected by the injury he had in bombardment by regime’s warplanes months ago.

With the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 4702, 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 30th of November 2019, and they are: 1206 civilians including 305 children and 218 citizen women, and they are 299 including 67 children and 55 women, and 9 of the civil defense and 6 of the ambulance team were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 91 including 19 women and 15 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 550 including 157 children, 93 women, and 5 members of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 175 people including 35 women and 36 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and 91 citizens including 30 children and 16 women were killed in shelling by the factions on al-Suqaylabiyah, Qamhana, Al-Rasif, Al-Aziziyah, Karnaz, Jurin, Al-Nairab Camp, neighborhoods in Aleppo city and its southern countryside, while at least 1869 fighters were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s aerial and ground shelling including 1216 of the Jihadis, in addition to killing of 1627 members of the regime forces in targeting and shelling by jihadi groups and factions.

During the period between the 15th of February 2019; the date of the meeting of “Rouhani – Erdogan – Putin” until the 30th of November 2019, and Syrian Observatory documented the death of 5228 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 1489 civilians including 386 children under the age of eighteen and 282 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 117 people including 33 children under the age of eighteen and 20 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1955 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 1249 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 1784 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 5462 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 1572 civilians including 415 children and 296 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 118 people including 33 children and 21 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 2022 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 1353 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 1868 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.