After dropping leaflets about “the safe crossing and return to the homeland”… shelling targets the north of Homs after a meeting between representatives of Hama and Homs with the Russians and the regime failed
Homs Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: areas in Al-Kann farms in the east of Al-Rastan city, in the northern countryside of Homs, were subjected to artillery shelling by the regime forces, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, also the regime forces shelled areas in Deir Ful and Al-Za’afaraneh towns, which resulted in the fall of wounded, the regime forces also targeted areas in Al-Rastan city by a number of artillery and rocket shells, while several intersected sources confirmed to that the meeting which was expected to be held today afternoon, Sunday the 22ndof April 2018, was cancelled, while the skies of the northern countryside of Homs witnessed before this shelling, overflights of regime’s helicopters dropping leaflets on the area, report that: “when you approach the checkpoints of the Syrian Arab Army, make sure that you do not have any weapons, you have to carry personal documents and your necessary needs, if you are subjected to attacks by terrorists, you have to resort to shelters and lie on the ground stay away from the places where terrorists are located so that they do not use you as human armors, when you approach the army’s checkpoints, take the open roads and lift this card in your hands or a white cloth”, and (( a safe crossing card allows those who hold this card to cross the Syrian Arab Army’s checkpoints safely, the Syrian Arab Army will provide medical assistance and food to all those who carry this card – cooperate with the Syrian Arab Army and leave the combat operation area in order to protect your life))
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a meeting held on the 18th of April 2018, in al-Dar al-Kabira area in the northern countryside of Homs, which took place between representatives of the Russian side and representatives of the factions and the parties working in the northern countryside of Homs, and intersected sources confirmed that an agreement of ceasefire took place between the regime forces and the factions of north of Homs and south of Hama until Sunday the 22nd of April 2018, provided that the Russians guarantee that the regime commits to the results of this agreement, in which the SOHR has obtained a copy of this initiative by mediators, in order to reach a accordant solution about the northern countryside of Homs, which has been witnessing renewed aerial and artillery shelling for 72 hours, which resulted in the fall of casualties and wounded, where several points were raised, in order to be discussed and reach an agreement between the representatives of the northern countryside of Homs and representatives of the Russian side, and the agreement included “opening communications via a joint committee including representatives of the northern countryside of Homs and representatives of the Russian side, in order to work on making a chart leads to an inclusive settlement that keeps the area of the northern countryside of Homs and the adjacent countryside and Homs city away from the war, thus, an inclusive ceasefire will prevail the area in accordance with the commitments of the parties, opening at least two entrances where the Russian military police have to be presented between the regime’s controlled areas and the factions’ controlled areas, then areas will be gradually and successively agreed to be turned into civilian areas and let the Russian military police enter them, the formation of a committee of 7 persons of those who are exist inside and outside the factions’ controlled areas, the formation of a council to control the area with a higher committee, then the government institutions of the regime will be reactivated, and then the factions will be divided into 3 categories, one is civilian police, the second is military police and the third is responsible for the heavy weapon, bringing out every member of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, training the members of both civilian and military police by the Russians for 3 to 6 months provided that Hmeimim Base will be their higher authority, while the faction that will be responsible for the heavy weapon is composed of dissident officers and soldiers, under the supervision of Russian advisers, and it will be rehabilitated to be the core of the new Syrian army in the future, and it will be assigned to the task of defending the area against the terrorist organizations, the release of the detainees with non-criminal charges who have been detained since 2011, the release the abductees and captives who were captured by the factions of the northern countryside of Homs, creating a mechanism for getting a general amnesty for the wanted persons, and creating a mechanism for bringing those who reject the agreement out of the area”.