Syrian regime forces and allied militias have deliberately intensified artillery and missile bombardment on agricultural areas in rebel-held northwestern Syria, setting huge fires to wheat and barley crops, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.
The regime forces stationed in the Joreen camp in the Hama countryside have hit over the past 72 hours the agricultural areas of al-Mansoura, al-Sarmaniyah and al-Mashik in the Ghab Plain region in Hama province, activist Mohamed Obaid said.
The bombing caused the destruction of more than 40 hectares of the wheat and barley crops.
Burning crops or cutting trees was the most painful policy and the most severe loss for the Syrian people, as it comes not only during the seasons, but also causes the loss of production costs from cultivation and care services, which burdens him in light of the high prices and the deterioration of currency and material scarcity, human rights advocate Abdul Nasser Hoshan told Zaman al-Wasl.
Meanwhile, farmers are afraid of being targeted by Assad's forces as they are in the harvest season.
The economic war on the Syrian people is a systematic battle, including siege, starvation, looting, robbery, and confiscation, destruction, and fire, Hoshan added.
Local activists say every year with the advent of the harvest season, the regime and allied militias confiscate the seasons and agricultural crops, even every contractor is affiliated with a security division that controls and seizes the lands.
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