The northeastern countryside of Hama witnesses a continuous escalation of aerial bombardment

Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: areas in the northeastern countryside of Hama witnessed continued bombard by warplanes, where they targeted areas in al-Shatib village and a camp of displaced people near Qasr Ali and other areas in al-Hamra Township in the northeastern countryside of Hama, amid sporadic clashes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic factions in areas in the same countryside, amid exchange of targeting.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday night that the number of the fighters who were killed in the aerial bombardments and artillery shelling on the controlled areas of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in the northeastern countryside of Hama, has increased to 17 persons at least including 12 fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham including commanders of non-Syrian nationalities, and the and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, and contact areas in the vicinity of Balil village and Um Khazim hill in the northern countryside of Hama is witnessing an exchange of shelling between the regime forces against the factions and Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham, while calm prevails between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against fighters of Tahrir Al-Shama and the rebel and Islamic factions in areas in the northeastern countryside of Hama, while warplanes renew their shelling on areas controlled by the factions and Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham, in the northeastern countryside of Hama, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Wednesday, that that the area witnessed hit-and-run clashed during which Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham managed to regain control of Khazim hill hours after the regime forces controlled it, while the northeastern countryside of Hama witnessed today violent clashes between both parties, accompanied by tens of air strikes that targeted this countryside by Russian warplanes, and the violent clashes have caused the death of at least 8 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them including a colonel, as well as 13 fighters of the factions and liberation of Sham at least in clashes since this morning, raising to 155, the number of fighters and members of the regime forces, they are at least 65 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and at least 90 fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions, while tens of both parties have been injured with in these continuous clashes since the 24th of October 2017, and the Syrian Observatory has published yesterday that the southeastern and southern countryside of Idlib and the northeastern countryside of Hama have witnessed the heaviest raids since the start of the pave for the advancement battles in the northeastern countryside of Hama, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the Russian warplanes carrying out more than 140 raids targeting villages, farms and residential communities in areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions in the countryside of Hama, and in other areas in the southern and southeastern countryside of Idlib, while the violent clashes continue between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions, in areas in the vicinity of villages and hills of Om Khazim, Blil, al-Tlue’ and Om Trikiyyeh in the countryside of Hama, of which the regime forces managed to control them all except for the village of Om Trikiyyeh, in which the clashes are still taking place, in an attempt by the regime forces to advance in the area, and impose their control on the positions they regained, in order not to lose them again by possible counter attack by the fighters of Tahrir Al-Sham and the factions.