New Year’s Eve Celebrations | Public anger in regime-controlled areas over celebratory live gunfire

SOHR sources have monitored growing popular discontent in regime-controlled areas over the new year’s eve celebrations which saw intensive and indiscriminate celebratory gunfire in all Syrian provinces. The indiscriminate gunfire caused panic among residents and left several people injured, as SOHR activists have documented the injury of an 18-year-old girl in Jaramana.

 

The popular anger also follows ISIS massacre a day earlier, where 39 regime soldiers and officers were killed in an ambush by ISIS on the road between Deir Ezzor and Homs.

 

Yesterday, Observatory activists monitored a spike in the death toll of regime forces, as a result of an ISIS attack on military buses on Homs-Deir Ezzor road a day earlier, as 39 members of 4th Division and regime forces, including eight officers of different ranks, were killed in the attack.

 

It is worth nothing that some of the bodies were charred as fires broke out after the attack. Also, other members sustained various injuries, some seriously. It is also worth nothing that this was the largest attack by the Islamic State in 2020 in terms of the number of casualties among regime forces.

 

In September, SOHR sources reported that Observatory activists documented the killing of a girl under the age of 18, as members of the “National Defence Forces” (NDF) opened fire discriminately, celebrating the wedding of their friend, in Al-Jarba town of Al-Marj area in the eastern Ghout, Rif Dimashq. According to SOHR sources, NDF members fired bullets in the air in the town for hours, which led to the death of the girl after she was hit with a gunshot. It is worth noting that the girl got an A-plus that year after finishing primary education.