The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

At least 44 fighters and members and about 20 civilians were killed in the violent clashes, intensive aerial bombardment and artillery shelling in the countryside of Idlib and Hama

The clashes continue at a lower pace than before in the clash areas in the northeastern countryside of Hama and the southern countryside of Idlib, between the rebel and Islamic factions and Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham against the regime forces supported by the gunmen loyal to them. This decline of clashes come after re-controlling of Abu Dali town by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions, where this town has an economic importance, and they were able to re-control it after a counterattack after the regime forces’ control of it for hours. And in a related context, the warplanes renewed the bombardment on the southern and southeastern countryside of Idlib targeting the clash areas and other areas in al-Tamanah town and Tahtaya village, in conjunction with a continuous rocket shelling on places in al-Tamanah and another places in the southern countryside.

In the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented more casualties as a result of the aerial and rocket shelling that targeted the countryside of Idlib today intensively, where the death toll rose to 19 including 7 children and 6 citizen women, and in the details documented by the Syrian Observatory: the casualties are 3 children, a woman and 3 men, they were killed in an aerial bombardment targeted al-Tamanah town and its farms and outskirts in the southern countryside of Idlib, and a woman and 4 of her children were killed in aerial bombardment on places in al-Mshirfah, and 2 women and a man were killed in aerial bombardment on Sehyan village, and 2 women were killed in aerial bombardment on the al-Sarman, and a member of the civil defense was killed in rocket shelling on Bidama town in the countryside of Jisr Al-Shughur city, and a man was killed in Um Jalal village, also the aerial and rocket bombardment have wounded a large number of people which may raise the death toll.

The violent clashes and heavy shelling in the past 24 hours have caused more casualties and killed 27 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities at least, while 17 fighters of the factions and Hayyaat Tahrir al- Sham at least were killed in the same battles, raising to 38, the number of killed members of the regime forces and their allies, while it rose to 41, the number fighters of the faction and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham who were killed in less than 72 hours of intense shelling and violent clashes in the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and the Observatory published hours ago that these violent clashes was accompanied by intensive and violent raids by warplanes and helicopters in which the regime forces targeted areas extended from the northern countryside of Hama to the eastern countryside of Idlib, where the regime forces launched more than 640 missiles and shells on both countryside, in conjunction with carrying out and dropping more than 150 barrel bombs and raids targeting Wadi Al-Deif, Tell Mannas, Sukayk, Al-Taman’aa, Maarat Shurin, Al-Zakah, Maar Dibsah, Al-Mshirfah, Sinjar, Babuline, Abu Dali, Tell Maraq, Al-Hamdania, Al-Khwaiyn and Sahyan and other areas in the countryside of Hama and Idlib.