Murders in regime-held areas | Woman shot dead by 4th Division member in Rif Dimashq

Rif Dimashq province: SOHR activists have documented the death of a woman in Zakia city in western Rif Dimashq when a member of the 4th Division fired directly at the victim, killing her and wounding her husband and one of her children.

According to SOHR sources, the killer sold a phone he had stolen from the woman’s husband, and after several attempts made by the woman and her husband to restore the phone, the killer refused to bring the phone back, attacked the victims and killed the woman, then fled. While the family’s victim demands avenge.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 99 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2022, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 104 civilians: 20 children, 18 women, and 66 men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Al-Suwaydaa: 27 civilians: three children, including an infant, three women, and 21 men.

• Rif Dimashq: 20 civilians: Six children, five women, and nine men including an elderly man.

• Homs: 11 civilians: Two little girls, two women, and seven men.

• Hama: Ten civilians: an infant, three women, and six men.

• Daraa: Nine civilians: four children and five men.

• Aleppo: Seven civilians: an infant and six men.

• Damascus: Four civilians: a woman and three men.

• Tartus: Four civilians: two women and two men.

• Deir Ezzor: Six civilians: Four men, a child, and a woman.

• Al-Raqqah: Two men.

• Lattakia: Three civilians: a woman, a child, and a man.

• Al-Quneitra: A child.