(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime military campaign has been for three days on the neighbourhood of al-Waer in Homs, in order to pressurise civilians and fighters to give up their demands of releasing detainees from regime’s prisons and to secure the rest of the Syrian resistance’s members to Northern countryside of Homs or to the North of Syria.
This military campaign is considered the most violent since weeks, as the indiscriminate shelling has targeted schools, medical centres, residential houses, and religious centres, resulted in killing 20 civilians including 3 children.
The body of protecting civilians explained that no signs of life in the neighbourhood, as people stay in basements and lower levels of building. Moreover, markets and schools are still closed for the fifth day.
Abo Faisal, spokesman of the Body of protecting civilians told Zaman al-Wasl that shelling included explosive cylinder filled with burning materials, mentioning that deaths have increased to 9 people added to more than 30 wounded including amputations. Civil defense keep working in removing debris to look for victims due targeting a-4-level building.
The council of liberated Homs demanded the united nations’ institutions and the Red Crescent to launch an urgent plan to protect civilians, showing its readiness to provide all facilitation and help to achieve their target.
On the other hand, one of the teachers explained that regime’s escalation aimed to caused clashed and disagreement among people of the neighbourhood after realising that people are insisting on the agreement part.
Zaman al-Wasl reported that 25% of 7000 detainees’ fate in the central prisons of the Ministry of Interior determined, while those in other security branches and Sydnaya prison was not known.
An agreement between the regime and rebels was signed by the local reconciliation committee and government officials, to end the siege on the area and stop bombardments in return for the withdrawal of rebel groups.
Al-Waer has been the only neighbourhood under rebel control in the city of Homs after the regime recaptured the city in 2014. Since then, neighbourhood has been under fighting, artillery shelling and air strikes.
An estimated 75,000 people still live in al-Waer, out of 300,000 before the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011.
A UN-backed agreement initiated last year to evacuate hundreds of residents from the neighbourhood but the deal was not fulfilled as regime refused to release detainees.
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