The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

IED attack | Explosion kills Palestinian young man in eastern Idlib

Idlib province: SOHR sources have reported that a media activist from Palestine was killed in an IED explosion planted earlier in his vehicle in front of his house in Binnish city to the east of Idlib city. The explosion also injured other civilians, including a woman.

 

It is worth noting that the targeted young man had joined al-Sham Corps while he was in Saraqeb city, before he inhabited in Binnish city after the regime forces’ control of Saraqeb.

 

Syrian Observatory activists in HTS-held areas have documented the death of 74 persons since the beginning of 2021 by bombings, shooting or kidnapping and then getting rid of much of the bodies in remote areas in Idlib and the surrounding villages or in Aleppo, Hama and Latakia.

 

According to the SOHR statistics, the fatalities were categorized as follows: 36 Syrian civilians, including five females and two children, one Palestinian civilian, 31 Syrian fighters affiliated to HTS, Islamic and rebel factions, six of jihadist groups of non-Syrian nationals. Dozens others have been wounded in these attacks.

 

As more fatalities were documented, the number of people who have been killed in the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia since the 26th of April 2018, the start date of the security chaos to be escalated in these provinces, rose to 802. They were assassinated by bomb attacks, IED detonations, gunfire, abductions and then killing and throwing the bodies in remote areas. The fatalities were distributed as follows:

 

  • Two fighters of the Turkistan Islamic Party

 

  • The wife of an Uzbek commander and another child was with her

 

  • The attorney-general of the Ministry of Justice of the Salvation Government

 

  • 256 civilians, including 26 children and 26 women, and among them there was a foreign civilian.

 

  • 457 fighters of Syrian nationality belong to Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, al-Sham Corps, the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Izza, and other factions operating in Idlib.

 

  • 84 fighters of Somali, Uzbek, Asian, Gulf, Jordanian, Turkish and Caucasian nationalities.

 

Meanwhile, the assassination attempts have injured tens of people with varying severity.