After the massacre of the eastern countryside of Hama, the regime forces continue their violent attack backed by intense shelling to achieve a new advancement in the countryside of Salamiyah city

Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Jaysh Al-Izza fighters targeted using several rocket shells areas in Salhab town which is controlled by the regime forces in the western countryside of Hama, while the regime forces shelled areas in Atshan town in the northeastern countryside of Hama, but no information about injuries, also several shells launched by the organization fell on areas controlled by the regime forces in al-Sa’en town in the northeastern countryside of Salamiyah, and no casualties were reported yet, also areas in Hirbnafsah town in the southern countryside of Hama city were shelled by the regime forces, no information about casualties, while the violent clashes continue between the regime forces supported by gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the “Islamic State” organization in places in Salba and Jana al-Albawi areas in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah city in the eastern countryside of Hama, in an attempt to achieve an advancement in the area with a cover of intense shelling on the area, where Russian and regime’s warplanes continue carrying out airstrikes and target the “Islamic State” organization’s controlled areas in Uqayribat and the nearby areas, and confirmed information about more casualties in these airstrikes which are accompanied by intense artillery and rocket shelling by the regime forces on the area.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that it monitored the Russian warplanes and others belong to the regime forces while carrying out tens of airstrikes on the organization-held areas in Uqayribat town and the villages controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern and northeastern countryside of Salamiyah within the besieged area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that more than 120 raids targeted the villages of Al-Hessu, Jannah al-Alabawi, al-Rwayda, Abu Hanaya, Abu Hbeilat and other areas in the area of Uqayribat, and several local sources told the Syrian Observatory that at least 60 civilians were killed and injured in the aerial shelling on al-Rwayda village and several other areas in the eastern countryside of Hama. At least 22 of them were killed, including 6 children and 4 women, while the death toll is expected to increase because there are injured people in serious conditions, in addition to the missing people, whose fate is still unknown, while many of the injured exist in the area which was shelled because it is difficult to rescue them due to the ongoing shelling on the area by the warplanes and the regime forces.

This escalation of the destruction of infrastructure and the heavy shelling on the villages in the eastern countryside of Hama and the destruction of these villages by Russian warplanes and the regime’s aerial and ground targeting were coincided with the increasing bad humanitarian conditions, where 5 thousand civilians exist in this besieged area in the villages in the eastern countryside of Hama and the area linked to the eastern countryside of Homs, and they are suffering from tragic situations, due to the great shortage of food, medicines, hospitals and medical care, in addition to the shortage of the doctors specialized in some critical cases.