The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

With over 180 shells | Factions shell 25 positions in regime areas in Aleppo, Idlib, Hama and Lattakia

Extensive and violent shelling continues on regime areas in Aleppo, Hama, Idlib and Lattakia countryside by opposition factions, led by “Al-Fath Al-Mubin” operation room, where SOHR activists documented over 180 artillery shells and rockets fired by the factions since this morning, targeting nearly 25 areas, which are: Kabana, Salma, Salnafa, Atira, areas in Jabal Al-Turkman in Lattakia countryside, Jurin, Al-Bahsa, Foro, Al-Baraka, Al-Sakilbiyah in western Hama countryside, Saraqib, Dadikh, Jobas in eastern Idlib countryside, Al-Dar Al-Kabira, Al-Malaja, Ma’arat Mokhis, Kafr Nobl in Jabal Al-Zawiyah, vicinity of Ma’arat Al-Na’man, Kafroma in southern Idlib countryside, Qobtan Al-Jabal and Heir Darkal in western Aleppo countryside. However, no casualties have been reported yet.

This extensive shelling comes as a response to the massacre committed by the Russian warplanes in Jisr Al-Shughor western of Idlib in this morning, leaving seven people killed including four young brothers and injury of 11 others including eight children.

Earlier this morning, SOHR activists documented the death of seven people: four sibling children, two men and unidentified person, among other people, including women and children, stranded under rubble following a Russian attack with four airstrikes which targeted the outskirts of Al-Yaqoubiyah village and a house in Al-Jadidah village in Jisr Al-Shughour countryside in western Idlib in the early hours of Friday morning.

According to SOHR sources, most of the fatalities and people who are still stranded under the rubble are of displaced families from Sahl Al-Ghab in Hama countryside.