المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Several shells violate the truces of the Syrian south and the northern countryside of Homs

Homs Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The truce of the northern countryside of Homs is still in effect, since it started with an Egyptian-Russian agreement at noon of the 3rd of August 2017, amid calmness prevailing in the area, intervened by a shell by the regime forces on Al-Houla area, resulting in material damage, and that was documented as a new violate of the truce, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented hours ago that it documented the regime forces targeting with missiles places in the area of al-Houla in the northern countryside, and no information on casualties.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published yesterday that it documented several breaches on Thursday night, where the regime forces targeted with their heavy machine guns, places in al-Taybah area in the northern countryside of Homs, in conjunction with the targeting by several shells on areas in the village of Ghernata by the regime forces in the same countryside, and there were also an exchange of targeting between the regime forces and the factions in the northern countryside of Homs, where the regime forces targeted with several artillery shells areas in the villages of Al-Farhaniyah and the town of TeirMa’alah, in conjunction with the opening of their heavy fire on the outskirts of Al-Houla area. The regime forces also targeted the outskirts of TeirMa’alah town by heavy machine guns, amid shelling and fire shooting of heavy machine guns that targeted the village of Om Sharshuh near Talbisa city in the northern countryside of Homs, causing material damage, and no information about casualties so far, while the factions targeted by shells and heavy machine guns areas in the villages of Hosh Tasnin and Jabburin and other places controlled by the regime forces in the northern countryside  of Homs. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also documented that a fighter from an Islamic movement who died in shelling by the regime forces on areas west of Talbisa city in the northern countryside of Homs, while others were injured, and this is considered the first person to be killed since the implementation of the truce in the northern countryside of Homs, where the Russian forces deployed tens of its military police members on the contact lines between the areas controlled by the Islamic and repel factions on one hand, and the areas controlled by the regime forces and their allied militiamen on the other, amid fears prevailed since the implementation of the truce, that the agreement applied in the northern countryside of Homs, might be similar to the Eastern Ghouta Agreement, which began on the 22nd of July 2017, which did not withstand the breaches carried out by the regime forces on daily basis, and included artillery and missile shelling, believed to be ground-to-ground, and the shelling of the warplanes, which caused tens of causalities and injured civilians, in addition to the clashes that took place in areas in the Eastern Ghouta and its outskirts between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the Islamic factions.

 

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