December 2019: 10,000 air and ground strikes, 13 massacres, five car-bomb attacks, and nearly one thousand people killed
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 989 people in December 2019, as follows:
Civilian death toll: 279 persons, including 64 children under the age of 18, and 42 women over the age of 18 distributed as follows:
67 civilians, including 21 children and 12 women, killed in Russian warplane bombing, 46 civilians, including four children under the age of 18 and nine women over the age of 18, killed by warplanes.
17 persons, including six children under the age of 18 and three civilians over the age of 18 killed by the regime’s helicopter strikes.
30 civilians, including ten women and eight children killed in shelling and gunfire by regime forces, 25 civilians died under torture in regime forces prisons, two persons killed as a result of the shelling of opposition factions, a woman and a child killed by SDF gunfire.
Three people, including a woman killed by the Turkish border guards, and two persons killed during the military operation “Peace Spring”, a man and a child killed by HTS, a child who died due to poor health conditions in Al-Hol camp.
Four civilians, including tow women killed in unknown circumstances, six civilians killed by the “Islamic State”, and 23 civilians, including ten children, and a woman who died in IEDs and landmines.
18 civilians, including three children killed in a booby-trapped explosions, ten civilians, including eight children killed by Turkish forces, 21 civilians, including a child, and three women killed in separate assassinations in Syrian territory.
Syrian fighters of Islamic factions, opposition factions and other movements and organizations: 71
The Syria Democratic Forces: 17
The regime forces: 220
Members of the Popular Committees, and the National Defense Forces, and loyalists to regime forces of Syrian citizens: 145
Lebanese Hezbollah: 1
Loyalists to the regime forces of non-Syrian citizens mostly of the Shiite sect: 16
Fighters of Islamic factions, ISIS, Al-Nusra Front (Qaeda organization of the Levant), and Muhjereen and al-Ansar Army and Islamic Turkestan Party of non-Syrian citizens: 233
Anonymous: 7
The Syrian Observatory documented that Russian and Syrian warplanes, helicopters and regime forces carried out 9,196 air and ground strikes, which killed 148 civilians, including 37 children under the age of 18, and 30 women over the age of 18.
Russian “guarantor” aircraft carried out 546 air strikes, killing 67 civilians, including 21 children under the age of 18, and 12 women over 18.
The regime warplanes carried out 431 strikes, killing 46 civilians, including four children and nine women.
The regime’s helicopters also dropped 549 barrel bombs, killing 17 civilians, including six children and three women.
Regime forces targeted the “de-escalation” zone with 7,670 shells and missiles, killing 18 civilians, including six children and six women.
The conflicting forces also committed 13 massacres in December 2019, in which 94 citizens, including 27 children under the age of 18, and 20 women over the age of 18 were massacred as follows:
Five massacres carried out by “Russian guarantor” aircraft in which 34 civilians were killed, including 12 children under the age of 18, and five women over the age of 18.
Four massacres carried out by regime warplanes in which 27 civilians were killed, including a child under the age of 18, and seven women over the age of 18.
Three massacres carried out by regime forces in which 23 civilians were killed, including six children under the age of 18, and eight women over the age of 18.
A massacre carried out by Turkish forces in which ten people, including eight children under the age of 18 were killed.
Six booby-trapped bombs also hit Turkish-held areas, killing 20 people, including two fighters, 15 civilians and three children.
The Islamic State and its sleeper cells carried out at least 20 targets in December, killing 60 people: seven civilians, 11 fighters of SDF, 20 soldiers of regime forces, 15 members of regime forces loyalists, and six Iranian militiamen.
Despite all the attempts to find solutions, and the displacement, and the manipulation of the Syrians future, and the UNSC resolution and truces, and despite the low intensity of killing due to the international desire to seek a solution, however, the bloodshed continues on the Syrian territory and the killing and fighting continues without peace, and the cease-fire truces was only breaks between the sides of the conflict in Syria, where some parties were winners and others lost influence and control, so, we at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, we call for the international parties once again to work hard and make their utmost efforts to stop the bloodshed of the Syrian people, who faced tyranny and injustice to reach a state of justice, democracy, freedom and equality.
The Syrian Observatory renew its commitment to continue monitoring and documenting the massacres, violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Syrian people, in addition to publishing the statistics and causalities of those practices in order to stop these crimes, violations and atrocities against the Syrian people, and bring the perpetrators of these crimes to special international courts, so that they do not escape punishment for the crimes they committed against the people who was and still dream to achieve a state of democracy, freedom, justice and equality for all components of the Syrian people.
HD Infographic: massacres committed in December 2019:
HD Infographic: air strikes in December 2019:
HD Infographic: civilian causalities in December 2019:
HD Infographic: death toll in December 2019:
