“Deterrence of Aggression” operation | 446 civilians and combatants killed in five days of fierce military battles
On Dec 2, 2024
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The number of civilians and combatants, who have been killed during “Deterrence of Aggression” operation which started on November 27, has increased to 446; they are distributed as follows:
-244 rebels:
200 HTS members.
44 members of the “National Army” factions.
-141 members of regime forces and their proxy militias:
120 members of regime forces, including four officers.
Six Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
15 militiamen of different nationalities.
-61 civilians:
A child was killed in bombardment in Al-Atareb.
23 civilians, including four children and three women, were killed in Russian airstrikes on different areas in Idlib city and in Al-Atareb and Darat Izza in the western countryside of Aleppo.
Four university students were killed in rocket fire by Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham on the university student dormitory in Aleppo city.
16 civilians were killed in airstrikes on Al-Basel roundabout in Aleppo city.
Nine civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes on a refugee camp in Al-Jame’a neighbourhood in Idlib city.
Eight civilians were killed in airstrikes on the university hospital in Aleppo.
Since the beginning of “Deterrence of Aggression” operation on November 27, Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and opposition factions managed to take control of large swaths in Aleppo, Idlib and Hama countryside, after successive withdrawals by regime forces.
The most prominent city recently-seized by rebels was Aleppo city, where a large number of rebels stormed the city and took control of the entire city, including Aleppo international airport, after having detonated two booby-trapped cars and taken control of the scientific research centre and other positions around Aleppo city.
With the ongoing advancement by rebels on the first five days of the large-scale military operation, regime forces sent large reinforcement in the past few hours and set a strict defence line in Taybat Al-Imam city and the towns of Khattab and Suran in the northern countryside of Hama and the cities of Al-Suqaylabiyah and Mahrada, which are inhabited mostly by Christian citizens, in the north-western countryside of Hama and the surrounding of villages inhabited mostly by Alawite citizens in the western countryside of Hama.
