The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More casualties raise to about 1465, the number of people killed within 41 days of the heaviest escalation in “Putin-Erdogan” area

The Syrian Observatory documented the death of 3 people including a fighter of Jaysh al-Izza, as a result of shelling by the Russian guarantor’s warplanes on Khan Shaykhun city, where the people were working in wheat packing within their areas, while the heaviest escalation within the “Putin-Erdogan” area continues on its 41st day, and the warplanes and helicopters did not leave the area in these days except for 24 hours, where they gone absent of the area in a hope of a new Russian – Turkish calm that lasted few hours only, and the Syrian Observatory monitored with the beginning of the 41st day an intense air and ground strikes, where regime’s warplanes carried out 26 air raids since midnight of yesterday until now, targeting Khan Shaykhun and al-Tamanah in the southern countryside of Idlib, and Kafr Zita in the northern countryside of Hama, also the Russian “guarantor’s” warplanes carried out more than 14 raids targeting areas in Khan Shaykhun south of Idlib, Kafr Zita, al-Zakat, al-Jabin, and al-Sayyad north of Hama, while the helicopter dropped at least 27 barrel bombs since after midnight until now on Abdeen, al-Hbit, al-Rakaya, and Khan Shaykhun in the southern sector of Idlib countryside, and Kabani area in Jabal al-Akrad.

While the regime forces targeted more than 190 rocket shells places in al-Lataminah, Kafr Zita, Latmin, and other places in the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama, in addition to the mountains of the coast, the southern sector of Idlib countryside, and the southern countryside of Aleppo, also sporadic clashes took place after midnight between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, against the jihadi factions and groups in al-Zahra area west of Aleppo city, and the areas of al-Hadadah, al-Teffahiyyeh, and Kabani in the mountains of the coast, while the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 27 fighters, they are 19 of the Jihadis and 8 of the rebel and Islamic factions, they were killed in the last few days in airstrikes by the Russians and the regime within the “de-escalation” area.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 1463, the number of people who were killed since the 30th of April 2019, the date of start of the most violent escalation in terms of aerial and ground bombardment, shelling, and targeting since Putin – Erdogan agreement, until the 10th of June 2019, and they are: 364 civilians including 87 children and 77 citizen women, and they are 49 including 15 children and 16 women, another woman and two of her children, were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 36 including 8 women and 4 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 199 including 41 women, 52 children, and a member of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 55 people including 8 women and 6 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and 23 citizens including 10 children and 4 women were killed in shelling by the factions on al-Suqaylabiyah, while at least 605 of the jihadi groups were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s shelling, in addition to the killing of 494 members of the regime forces in targeting and shelling by jihadi groups and factions.

And with the fall of more casualties, the death toll rises in the  heaviest continuous escalation on its 51st day, to 1613 people in the period since the morning of the 20th of April 2019, until the 10th of June 2019, they are 414 civilians including 101 children and 85 women, were killed in the Russian air bombardment and regime forces’ shelling on areas in Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, and Idlib, including 27 civilian casualties including 10 children and 5 citizen women were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions on Aleppo city, al-Hadir town south of Aleppo, al-Khandeq village, and al-Suqaylabiyah town in Hama countryside, and 19 people were killed in the explosion of a truck loaded with high-explosive materials owned by the jihadi groups in Jisr al-Shughur city west of Idlib, and 620 of the jihadi groups and the factions were killed in attacks and clashes against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and 560 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed in attacks by the jihadi groups on several areas of the demilitarized area.

And during the period between the 15th  of February 2019; the date of the meeting of “Rouhani – Erdogan – Putin” until the 10th of June 2019, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 1992 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 652 civilians including 171 children under the age of eighteen and 141 women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the Russian aerial bombardment and the rocket shelling by the regime forces and the factions, and among the death toll of civilians there are 51 people including 16 children under the age of eighteen and 10 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 691 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 450 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 649 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.

While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented since the start of the Russian – Turkish truce the death of 2221 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 732 civilians including 201 children and 153 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, targeting, and bombardment by warplanes, and among them there are 53 people including 16 children and 8 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 758 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 465 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 731 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.