Russian warplanes as well as warplanes of regime forces kill more people by their continuous targeting to the eastern countryside of Hama

Hama Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Russian warplanes as well as warplanes of regime forces renewed their raids targeting areas controlled by ISIS in the eastern and north-eastern countryside of Salamiyah city, in conjunction with continuous clashes between regime forces and gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities on one hand, and the members of ISIS on the other, in areas in the north-eastern countryside of Salamiyah city, in the eastern countryside of Hama, while the clashes were accompanied by escalating shelling by regime forces on areas controlled by the organization in Uqayribat Township and its villages, and in the clash areas between the both parties, amid targeting by the organization to the locations of regime forces and areas of their control by a number of shells, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the raids resulted in the death of a woman and her child, and the injury of other citizens with varying degrees of severity, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published on Friday that  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, and 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.