In the first 12 hours in the battle of ((the last attempt)) … the attacking factions advance – more than 140 raids – the death and the injury of tens – targeting medical and service centers

Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that proportional calmness returned to areas in the north-eastern and the southern countryside of Hama and Idlib, after violent shelling and intensive raids on areas there, in the first 12 hours since the dawn of the 19th of September 2017, which accompanied the battle of ((the last attempt)) which Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Party of Turkestan, Jaysh al-Izza and the rebel and Islamic factions started, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights observed that the level of fighting decreased greatly, until it stopped in a number of areas and it was limited to exchange of targeting and exchange of fire between the factions mentioned above on one hand, and the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them on the other.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights observed that the Russian warplanes as well as regime’s warplanes carried out more than 140 raids targeted the cities, the towns and the villages of Khan Shaykhun, Al-Hbit, Murak, Al-Taman’aa, Latmin, Al-Labbanah “Al-Janabrah”, Tarmala, Kafr Nubl, Al-Tulaysiyah, Al-Shatheh, the vicinity of Ma’an, Al-Talah Al-Sawdaa, Khafsin, Blail, Tal Hawash, Al-Hamdiyya, Ma’ar Zita, Al-Bara, Al-Tah, Sukayk, Kafr Zita, Al-Lataminah, Atshan, the vicinity of Tal Bizam and other areas in the north-eastern countryside of Hama city and the southern countryside of Idlib city, which resulted in the death of a woman and a man and the injury of tens others, while 3 persons including two relievers by targeting their car during carrying a wounded from the clash fronts, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented that about 15 fighters were killed in the shelling, clashes and raids, while the SOHR documented the death of about 20 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them by the same explosions, targeting and clashes.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also observed the targeting by the factions to the area of Hama Military Airbase and the villages and the areas of Ma’an, Khafsin, Blail, Al-Tulaysiyah, Al-Zughbah, Al-Qahirah, Al-Talah Al-Sawdaa, Al-Fan Wastani and Al-Fan Qibli in the north-eastern countryside of Hama and the southeastern countryside of Idlib, the SOHR also documented that the air strikes targeted the civil defense centers in Khan Shaykhun, Al-Taman’aa and Kafr Nubl in the southern countryside of Idlib, in addition to targeting the hospitals and the medical points in the southern countryside, by warplanes and helicopters, they are Al-Rahma medical point in Khan Shaykhun, and Al-Rahman maternity in Al-Tah town which were directly targeted, as well as targeting the vicinity of a hospital in Kafr Nubl and the vicinity of a medical point in Ma’ar Zita.

Also Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Party of Turkestan and the rebel and Islamic factions managed to achieve advancement and take the control of the villages of Al-Qahirah, Al-Shatheh, Al-Tulaysiyah and Al-Talah Al-Sawdaa in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, after consecutive violent attacks, which forced the regime forces to withdraw under the pressure of the intensive shelling and the violent attack, and the death toll of that were killed during the first 12 hours is still likely to rise because of the presence of serious injuries and missing.

It was mentioned that this battle of the last attempt, comes in an effort by the factions to achieve advancement in the area and take the control of the villages which close the distance between them and the strategic mountain of Zayn Al-Abidin and Hama city, while this battle comes after preparations lasted for days in which Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham intended to tell the citizens in the villages in the far southern countryside of Idlib and the north-eastern countryside of Hama, to leave their houses to avoid the intensive shelling which will be carried out on the area if the operation starts, thus, the area witnessed a displacement movement during the past days to villages far from the areas of this military operation, while Hama province witnessed months ago violent clashes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, and the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, in which they managed to take the control of a large number of villages and towns, under a cover of intensive shelling, then the regime forces came and retook the control on the whole areas they lost.