Lowest monthly death toll in 2021 | 239 people killed across Syria in July

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 239 people in July 2021. The fatalities were distributed as follows:

Civilian death toll: 114 persons, including 35 children under the age of 18, and 15 women over the age of 18, and they were as follows:

• 22 civilians, including 15 children and seven women, were killed in shelling and gunfire by regime forces.

• Five civilians died under torture in regime prison.

• Three men were killed by opposition factions.

• Two men were killed by Syria Democratic Forces (SDF).

• 18 civilians, including two women and three children, were killed in unknown circumstances, honour crimes and family and factional rivalries.

• Two men were subjected to field execution.

• 23 civilians, including two women and 12 children, were killed in explosions of IEDs and landmines.

• Six people, including a woman and four children, were killed in Turkish bombardment.

• Six people, including a child, were killed by the Turkish border guard forces “Jandarma”.

• Nine civilians, including two women, were killed by ISIS affiliates.

• Eight civilians, including a woman, were killed in separate assassinations across Syria.

Syrian fighters of Islamic factions, opposition factions and other movements and organizations: 14

Syria Democratic Forces (SDF): 16

Regime forces: 37

Members of the Popular Committees, and the National Defense Forces, and loyalists to regime forces of Syrian citizens: 14

Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen: 1

Loyalists to Iranian and regime forces of Syrian citizens mostly of the Shiite sect: 5

Jihadists: 16

ISIS members: 14

Turkish soldiers: 1

Local gunmen from Daraa: 5

Kurdish-backed non-Syrian fighters: 2

We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, call on the international community once again to work hard to stop the bloodshed in Syria. The people of Syria have been facing tyranny and oppression in their noble endeavour and cause to obtain justice, democracy, freedom and equality.

The Syrian Observatory renew its commitment to continue monitoring and documenting all the developments on the ground in Syria including, the massacres, violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Syrian people, as well as publishing all relevant statistics and causalities of such heinous acts, and hope to help all the ongoing efforts of bringing the perpetrators to special international courts, so that they do not escape justice for the crimes they committed against the people of Syria.