Tens of strikes, missiles and shells accompany a new violent attack carried out by the regime forces near the hometown of the regime’s Minister of Defense in the north-eastern countryside of Hama
About 400 air strikes target the northern countryside of Hama during 8 consecutive days since the regime forces started their military operations in the north-east of Hama
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the violent clashes are continuing between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, in areas in the noeth-eastern countryside of Hama city, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the violent fighting is concentrated in the vicinity of Umm Turaykiyah, Al-Mshirfah, Khafiyeh and Abu Laffah, followed a preparation by intensive firearm by the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, by tanks, artillery and mortar shells as well as missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, hit the clash areas, and Umm Turaykiyah and Al-Mshirfah areas, which the regime forces are seeking to control, by their violent attack which they started this afternoon the 29th October 2017.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the warplanes carried out intensive strikes targeted the controlled areas of Tahrir Al-Sham and the areas which the regime forces attacked, accompanied the violent fighting between the both parties, thus the number of strikes that hit the north-eastern countryside of Hama, has increased to 390 strikes, and caused great damage to the infrastructure and to the property of the citizens, in which the strikes hit the villages of Al-Rahjan, Al-Shatib, Arafa, Tell Khanzir, al-Shakuziyyeh, Qasr Ibn Wardan, Jib Al-Sokkar, Abu Dali, Umm Turaykiyah, Al-Mshirfah, Al-Dafriyyah, Qasr Shawy, Al-Khalidiya, Rabda, Eib Al-Khaznah, Mweileh, Hawayiz, Al-Rweideh, Al-Hamdania, Haymaniyah, Zughayr and other residential communities and position controlled by Tahrir Al-Sham, since the 22nd of October 2017, until today the 29th of October 2017, in which the villages mentioned above witnessed violent and successive air strikes, with varying pace of escalations and intensity.
These strikes prepared for the fighting and accompanied the violent clashes, which started on the 24th of October 2017, which mainly concentrated around Al-Rahjan village which is the hometown of the Defense Minister in Al-Assad’s regime the Major General Fahd Jassem al-Freij, which became out of control of the regime forces in the middle of July 2014, in which Nusra Front (Al Qaeda in the Levant) took the control of it then, after continuous and violent attack targeted the village which is located in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, as the regime forces are trying to regain the control of the village, by carrying out successive attacks enabled them during the past few days to take the control of villages and residential communities, after violent fighting took place between them and their loyal gunmen against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, while they managed to take the control of other residential communities and farms after the “Islamic State” organization withdrew from them, in which the regime forces managed at the beginning of their attack, to advance into the controlled areas of the organization in this countryside, after a series of tens of successive strikes which targeted the areas which used to be controlled by the organization recently after it crossed from Wadi Al-Azeeb through the controlled areas of the organization, and carrying out a violent attack that targeted the Syria forces.