Targeting by an army operating in Hama to a checkpoint of the regime forces kills and injures 6 members at least of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them
Hama Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: 2 members at least of the regime forces were killed and 4 others were injured with varying severity, as a result of targeting by Jaysh al-Izza to a checkpoint of the regime forces in Masasneh area in the northern countryside of Hama, and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured cases in serious conditions, while the regime forces renewed their shelling today evening, Saturday, the 16th of June 2018, where the shelling targeted areas in Al-Lataminah town, followed by targeting areas in M’aarkaba town, which are located in the northern countryside of Hama, causing material damage, without information about casualties.
The Syrian Observatory published yesterday morning, that it monitored the death of at least 2 people and the injury of others, as a result of targeting by the regime forces using a guided missile for a cemetery in al-Lataminah town in the northern countryside of Hama, where the targeting took place in the morning of today while the citizens were visiting al-Lataminah cemetery on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, followed by rocket shelling by a rebel army on places in Safsafiyah village, Muhradah town, and the area of Muhradah power station which are controlled by the regime forces in the western and northwestern countryside, but no information until now about causing casualties, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published on the 30th of May 2018 that the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them tend to target agricultural lands and crops, in the vicinity of the towns, cities and villages which are located in the southern sector of Idlib, Shal Al-Ghab and the north of Hama, where the fires burned hundreds of hectares of agricultural land, and the shelling was concentrated more on the areas of Al-Lataminah and Kafr Zita, as a part of the regime forces’ intention with their allies to burn the corps in these areas, while sources informed the SOHR that the regime forces tend, on the contact lines between them and the factions’ controlled areas, to threaten the locals to burn their crops, if they don’t pay a royalty of about 1000 Syrian Pounds for each 1000 square km of agricultural land belonging to them, where gunmen loyal to the regime force burned an agricultural land few days ago while two women were inside it, as a revenge for the crop owners’ refuse to pay the royalty, which resulted in the burning of the two women in their agricultural crops, where the SOHR published yesterday that two women were killed after fighters loyal to the regime burned their agricultural crop in Jalma area, located in the northwestern countryside of Hama, and the locals confirmed that the gunmen loyal to the regime burned the crop when the 2 women were inside it; under the pretext of the crop owners’ refuse to pay money in exchange for allowing them to harvest their land in the village, which caused the crop to be burned as well as the immediate death of both women and the burn of their bodies.