After the bloody massacres during the past 48 hours…the regime’s helicopters and warplanes are continuing their escalation targeting cities, towns and villages in Idlib countryside

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the warplanes and helicopters renewed this morning, their targeting to Idlib countryside, where the area is witnessing heavy flight of these aircraft, in conjunction with violent strikes on areas east of Idlib, which targeted areas in the vicinity and the outskirts of Saraqeb town and Maarrat Al-Nu’man city as well as the area of the International Highway, and the helicopters also dropped explosive barrels on places in Kafr Amim village in the area, without information about causing casualties so far, while Idlib countryside witnessed silence from after the midnight of Monday – Tuesday and until today morning, in the terms of the aerial and rocket shelling, except two airstrikes carried out by the warplanes on places in Al-Khwaiyn village and its outskirts in the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, as well as sporadic rocket shelling which targeted the western countryside of Jisr Al-Shughur.

 

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last night, that the warplanes bombed areas in the outskirts of Maasran village in the north-eastern countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man, and the warplanes also targeted areas in the outskirts of Maarrat Al-Nu’man city, and other areas in Maar Shamshah village, while the helicopters dropped explosive barrels on areas in Al-Sayyadi village in the eastern countryside of Idlib, while the shelling by warplanes renewed on areas in the outskirts of Saraqeb town, and other areas in Kafr Nuble town, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published yesterday that the heavy airstrikes of warplanes since the dawn of Monday the 28th of January resulted in the death of 21 martyrs, including 2 women and 6 children, and the martyrs are 14 civilians who were killed by airstrikes on Al-BatataMarket north of Saraqeb, 5 martyrs (a woman and 4 of her children) who were killed in aerial shelling on Ma’asaran, and a woman and a child were killed in shelling that targeted Al-Ihsan hospital in Saraqeb, and the death toll is still expected to increase due to the presence of several injured in serious conditions, and information about other martyrs were reported.Thus, it has increased to 179 citizens including 50 children and 36 citizen women, the number of the citizens whose death has been documented by the Syrian Observatory in the bombardment by the warplanes and helicopters, and by the shelling by the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them on areas in Idlib countryside, since the 25th of December until today the 29th of January 2018, while tens of others were injured with permanent disabilities and sever injuries, which may increase the death toll, and the shelling also caused destruction of hundreds of houses and shops and properties, in addition to the damage to destruction in the infrastructure of areas which witnessed heavy shelling, in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo.