Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that today, Monday, Russian air strikes targeted the Idlib countryside and Hama; This caused a new displacement movement, for the first time since the ceasefire was announced, and dozens of people were killed in new clashes in the area.
Although a truce declared by Moscow and Ankara took effect on March 6, the region witnessed intermittent clashes and mutual artillery shelling between regime forces and opposition factions, but today, Monday, it witnessed for the first time Russian air strikes.
On the other hand, the "Response Coordinators" organization in Syria said on Twitter that the villages and areas of Jabal al-Zawiya (south of Idlib governorate) and the Sahel al-Ghab areas in Hama countryside; There is a new movement of displacement towards relatively safe villages and towns and camps far from the areas adjacent to military operations.
About 120,000 people - out of a million people who have been displaced since December - have returned to their areas after the ceasefire, according to the United Nations.
In the context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that clashes broke out today between the forces of the regime and the factions following an attack launched by the latter on military sites in Sahel al-Ghab in Hama countryside, killing 19 of the regime forces and 22 of the attacking forces, which withdrew from two villages that had advanced to them after an air strike Russian and heavy Syrian ground shelling.
A new displacement movement is taking place in the villages and areas of Jabal Al-Zawiya in the southern countryside of Idlib and the areas of Sahel Al-Ghab, following the recent military escalation in the region towards relatively safe villages and towns and camps far from the areas adjacent to the military operations. # Coordinators_response_ Syria pic.twitter.com/7PJ4h26weH
- Response Coordination Group (@group_response) June 8, 2020
Activists broadcast pictures of the missile strikes on several villages, including Qastoun, Kafr Faruid, and Al-Muzarra.
Regime forces stationed in the southern countryside of Idlib targeted the town of Kafar Aweed by artillery. # Idlib #Sriaria pic.twitter.com/upi7HCY5Br
- Mustafa Dahnon (@MDahnon) June 8, 2020
Russian warplanes bomb the village of # Al-Muzarra in Idlib countryside # Syria # Idlib pic.twitter.com/KhyExVEa30
- Mohamad Rasheed, Mohammed Rashid (@mohmad_rasheed) June 8, 2020