About 72 hours of raids and intensive shelling leave about 110 casualties and wounded in the besieged eastern countryside of Hama

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that 7 citizens at least, including 4 members of one family, including a man and his wife, were killed and about 24 others were injured with varying degrees of severity, as a result of dozens of raids carried out by warplanes on areas controlled by ISIS in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah city in the eastern countryside of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the casualties were killed by targeting by these warplanes to Abul Fashafish village, where the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of injuries in serious cases, as Hama countryside has witnessed for the past 24 hours intensive raids in villages within the besieged circle which includes the eastern countryside of Hama with the part which is connected with it of the eastern countryside of Homs, thus, the number of casualties who were killed by the intensive bombing during the past 72 hours, on the villages which are controlled by the organization in the eastern countryside of Hama and which there are about 5 thousand citizens are still besieged in a circle surrounded by regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, has increased to 32people at least including 6 children and 6 citizen women, these raids also resulted in the injury of about 75 citizens with varying degrees of severity, which makes the number of casualties be likely to increase, amid great lack of the medical ability to rescue serious cases or badly injured.

Such an escalated targeting of infrastructures and heavy shelling on and destruction of villages in the eastern countryside of Hama by the Russian and the regime’s warplanes along with its forces coincided with deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the area. About 5 thousand civilians are still trapped in this besieged area, namely the villages of the eastern countryside of Hama and the area linked to it in the eastern countryside of Homs. Tragically, they are experiencing a significant shortage of food and medicine and lack of hospitals, medical care and specialized doctors for the critical conditions. Local sources called upon International Organizations, through the SOHR, to put pressure on all actors to secure a safe passage for thousands of civilians – children, men, elderly, ad women – to areas beyond the control of ISIS. Local sources confirmed to the SOHR that hundreds of families were transferred to areas near Ithriyah-Salamiyah road in order to move them to areas under the control of the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham. Contact was lost with tens of civilians while fleeing ISIS-controlled areas in the eastern countryside of Hama.