Revolutionary Council of Homs
Homs: Summary of Events, Monday, February 6, 2012
Homs under bombing: Since the early morning hours, the city has been getting bombed and attacked by different types of artillery, weapons, and rockets. The focus of the attack has been the Baba Amr neighborhood, which has been heavily targeted. Bombing lasted most of the day and in most areas of Homs, at an average of one bomb/rocket every 4 seconds. The rockets and bombs were being launched from the area known as al-Sakan al-Shababi in Baba Amr, the 18th brigade, and the air force intelligence branch. The targets of the bombs seemed to be the same, as the continued to fall in the same area.
Smoke could be seen rising above most neighborhoods as a result of the shelling, most communications and internet services have been completely cut off, and power is out in most areas. There is nearly no movement anywhere around the city, and the security checkpoints and snipers are targeting anything that moves.
One activist bravely went out to investigate the situation about half an hour after bombing subsided, but gunfire could still be heard around the city. He discovered that Assad militias had vandalized the new clock.
Baba Amr and Inshaat: Since early morning, Assad forces launched an unprecedented attack against these neighborhoods, bombing them violently with rockets. It was estimated that at east 100 rockets were launched at Baba Amr. There was heavy gunfire as well, using all types of weapons, which along with the bombing resulted in completely destroying several buildings, and killing and wounding many people, whose numbers are still on the rise. For most of the day, the only sounds that could be heard were explosions, gunfire, and children’s and women’s screams.
Assad forces also hit with several bombs a field hospital in the neighborhood, which resulted in destroying part of it. Other bombs targeted al-Hikmah hospital, a private hospital near Baba Amr.
The humanitarian condition of the neighborhood is quite miserable, with a shortage in medical and relief supplies, and blood. The neighborhood has been under siege for several days, which also resulted in a shortage in food, especially essentials, like bread.
Baba Amr | Bombs and rockets fall on homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg8zDkz3ryQ
https://youtu.be/6LlFL1KqouM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtzw7s_WsNQ
Inshaat | A fallen hero, and no one can get him
https://youtu.be/5_oT19OQWKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUT3595eEyM
Baba Amr | The field hospital that was hit, and transferring the fallen heroes minutes before it was bombed by Assad forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGICKEkVV8U
Baba Amr | The field hospital massacre
https://youtu.be/bsTLiPMpqk0
https://youtu.be/4zgqw_JRZ6w
https://youtu.be/z6OJEUuQ5bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1iQcuLPnew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80m0Mj06xA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxmAaXC8eRs
Baba Amr | Activist Khalid Abu Salah talking about the neighborhood’s conditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnd66Qp7b1Y
Baba Amr | An appeal from activist Khalid Abu Salah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXODzejuYKQ
Baba Amr | Field doctor Muhammad al-Muhammad talks about bombing the hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBe28RBx_nU
Baba Amr | Violent artillery shelling of civilians by Assad forces, and smoke rises above the neighrborhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1oSRPp1yQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPG2i6iWdW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGI_PH0neE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJw6aeR_uSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS1bF-6DD2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew3YPgJngls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbW4uKNjXO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGDBH0MUgNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qARwDVuXudE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWrsrplTsRY
Baba Amr | Destruction and an appeal from residents
https://youtu.be/I7dDGXTTGt0
Baba Amr | A wounded person takes his last breath
https://youtu.be/o6mkav9ooE4
Baba Amr | An appeal for help from field doctor Muhammad al-Muhammad
https://youtu.be/wjuDxbOZaz0
Baba Amr | A fallen hero in the hands of doctor Muhammad and an appeal for help
https://youtu.be/cYsTNGcq1Mw
Baba Amr | Helping those affected by the bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9HwxnVYQd0
The rest of Homs: Most areas and neighborhoods of Homs also got bombed violently by Assad forces, which used all types of weapons, tanks, and mortars. Explosions could be heard in Khaldiyeh, Bayada, Deir Balba, Wadi al-Arab, Rifai, Karm al-Zeitoun, Joret al-Shayah, and the old neighborhoods of Homs. This resulted in destroying some buildings either completely or partially, and a large number of wounded people and fallen heroes. Meanwhile, smoke could be seen rising above most of the city. Most of these neighborhoods are under siege and there is a noticeable shortage in medical and first aid supplies.
Khaldiyeh | Remains of one of the fallen heroes killed by the bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Ymd9peOdw
Khaldiyeh | A person wounded as a result of the bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcrXxdWYuM
Khaldiyeh | Mosques broadcasting prayers in response to the bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0_af3fd2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luUViiDDY-8
Khaldiyeh | Smoke rising following bombing of the neighborhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFSG2_Un_HM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRScJVa2i0c
Khaldiyeh | al-Wadi area, where bombing with mortars resulted in destroying buildings
https://youtu.be/u2zjJUJ0BlQ
https://youtu.be/uNxgmJB6kB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8CCx65PgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1qeDAT6ti0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sem9tZoBIt8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5IxdzRe7W4
Rifai | Artillery shelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjMttmhvbU0
https://youtu.be/Rep3YetzpG8
Karm al-Zeitoun | An old man and a young man get injured by gunfire from Shabiha thugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqb4zlAfY2k
Karm al-Zeitoun | The conditions of those displaced from the neighborhood
https://youtu.be/UwM8DBr3YGc
Karm al-Zeitoun | Smoke rises above the city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYz2chXu4nQ
Karm al-Zeitoun | Destruction marks from bombing on Riad al-Saleheen mosque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJF2By2bsY
Deir Balba | Violent bombing and smoke rising with some of the resulting destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geHBNrYXdSI
Deir Balba | destruction marks on one home from mortar bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8hzy910J4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJVGiLqbm8
Rural Homs: towns in the vicinity of Homs did not escape the violence either, as the areas of Rastan and Holeh witnessed heavy gunfire and violent explosions, which resulted in many getting wounded or killed. The area of Tadmur also saw some military reinforcements and tanks arrive to town.
Tadmur | Tanks situated by the Military Security branch
https://youtu.be/xhuOi9IOgpA
Today’s confirmed fallen heroes:
1- Abdelhamid Abdelnafe’e, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
2- Ghassan Khalid Shalb al-Sham, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
3- Ammar al-Masri, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
4- Ahmad Mashlouh, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
5- Abdelgaffar al-Hussein, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
6- Jassem al-Lahham, bombing by Assad forces | Karm al-Zeitoun
7- Khalid al-Tadmuri (Abu Safwan) | Karm al-Shami
8- Assya Hussein al-Hamoud, killed by a sniper | Karm al-Zeitoun
9- Unidentified fallen hero, killed at a checkpoint and body is being held there | Holeh
10- Hussein al-Hussein al-Akkidi | Waar
11- Ahmad Abboud | Qusayr – Rabiya village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDpk6Us87ro
12- Ausama al-Zakahi | Holeh
13- Adham al-Abrash, 33 | Bayada
14- Muhammad Murad (Abu Sabri) | Bayada
15- Mujanad Manshak | Bayada
16- Adnan Abdeljalil Khabbaz | Bab Sbaa
http://t.co/UoktI2r0
17- Unidentified fallen hero | Inshaat
https://youtu.be/5_oT19OQWKY
18- Fatimah Hussein Hamada, 10, random bombing by Assad forces | Holeh
19- Ramez al-Abdullah, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
https://youtu.be/jL48CQQMOPc
20- Mazeed al-Hamad, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
21- Hattem al-Ali, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
22- Abdelhamid Kara Hasan, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
23- Abdelhamid Sabbouh, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
24- Dyaa al-Sheikh Fidaa, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
25- Adnan Khider Salameh, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
26- Abdelkareem Mubarak, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
27- Bade’e al-Ahmad, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
28- An unidentified child, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
https://youtu.be/-FpPdanztas
29- Fadi Abdelsami’i al-Atassi, 39, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr – from Inshaat
30-43 About 14 fallen heroes whose names have not yet been confirmed, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
44- Najib Izzeldeen, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
45- Muhammad Deeb al-Mehrez, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
46- Ahmad Hasan al-Mehrez, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
47- Ayham Mahmoud Bahbouh, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
48- Fatimah al-Mehrez, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
49- Qusai al-Arour, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
50- Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
51- Muhammad Izzeldeen, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
52- Khadija Abdelmonem al-Hajj Ali, 11, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
53- Maher al-Masri, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
54- Fahher Sabee Shlar | Bab Sbaa
55- Turki al-Doumani | Bayada
56- Bilal Khalid Issa al-Faouri | Bayada
57- Ahmad Hikmat Balika | Bayada
58- Bilal Mahmoud Saad al-Deen | Bayada
Homs: Summary of Events, Monday, February 6, 2012
Homs under bombing: Since the early morning hours, the city has been getting bombed and attacked by different types of artillery, weapons, and rockets. The focus of the attack has been the Baba Amr neighborhood, which has been heavily targeted. Bombing lasted most of the day and in most areas of Homs, at an average of one bomb/rocket every 4 seconds. The rockets and bombs were being launched from the area known as al-Sakan al-Shababi in Baba Amr, the 18th brigade, and the air force intelligence branch. The targets of the bombs seemed to be the same, as the continued to fall in the same area.
Smoke could be seen rising above most neighborhoods as a result of the shelling, most communications and internet services have been completely cut off, and power is out in most areas. There is nearly no movement anywhere around the city, and the security checkpoints and snipers are targeting anything that moves.
One activist bravely went out to investigate the situation about half an hour after bombing subsided, but gunfire could still be heard around the city. He discovered that Assad militias had vandalized the new clock.
Baba Amr and Inshaat: Since early morning, Assad forces launched an unprecedented attack against these neighborhoods, bombing them violently with rockets. It was estimated that at east 100 rockets were launched at Baba Amr. There was heavy gunfire as well, using all types of weapons, which along with the bombing resulted in completely destroying several buildings, and killing and wounding many people, whose numbers are still on the rise. For most of the day, the only sounds that could be heard were explosions, gunfire, and children’s and women’s screams.
Assad forces also hit with several bombs a field hospital in the neighborhood, which resulted in destroying part of it. Other bombs targeted al-Hikmah hospital, a private hospital near Baba Amr.
The humanitarian condition of the neighborhood is quite miserable, with a shortage in medical and relief supplies, and blood. The neighborhood has been under siege for several days, which also resulted in a shortage in food, especially essentials, like bread.
Baba Amr | Bombs and rockets fall on homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg8zDkz3ryQ
https://youtu.be/6LlFL1KqouM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtzw7s_WsNQ
Inshaat | A fallen hero, and no one can get him
https://youtu.be/5_oT19OQWKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUT3595eEyM
Baba Amr | The field hospital that was hit, and transferring the fallen heroes minutes before it was bombed by Assad forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGICKEkVV8U
Baba Amr | The field hospital massacre
https://youtu.be/bsTLiPMpqk0
https://youtu.be/4zgqw_JRZ6w
https://youtu.be/z6OJEUuQ5bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1iQcuLPnew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80m0Mj06xA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxmAaXC8eRs
Baba Amr | Activist Khalid Abu Salah talking about the neighborhood’s conditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnd66Qp7b1Y
Baba Amr | An appeal from activist Khalid Abu Salah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXODzejuYKQ
Baba Amr | Field doctor Muhammad al-Muhammad talks about bombing the hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBe28RBx_nU
Baba Amr | Violent artillery shelling of civilians by Assad forces, and smoke rises above the neighrborhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1oSRPp1yQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPG2i6iWdW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGI_PH0neE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJw6aeR_uSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS1bF-6DD2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew3YPgJngls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbW4uKNjXO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGDBH0MUgNo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qARwDVuXudE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWrsrplTsRY
Baba Amr | Destruction and an appeal from residents
https://youtu.be/I7dDGXTTGt0
Baba Amr | A wounded person takes his last breath
https://youtu.be/o6mkav9ooE4
Baba Amr | An appeal for help from field doctor Muhammad al-Muhammad
https://youtu.be/wjuDxbOZaz0
Baba Amr | A fallen hero in the hands of doctor Muhammad and an appeal for help
https://youtu.be/cYsTNGcq1Mw
Baba Amr | Helping those affected by the bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9HwxnVYQd0
The rest of Homs: Most areas and neighborhoods of Homs also got bombed violently by Assad forces, which used all types of weapons, tanks, and mortars. Explosions could be heard in Khaldiyeh, Bayada, Deir Balba, Wadi al-Arab, Rifai, Karm al-Zeitoun, Joret al-Shayah, and the old neighborhoods of Homs. This resulted in destroying some buildings either completely or partially, and a large number of wounded people and fallen heroes. Meanwhile, smoke could be seen rising above most of the city. Most of these neighborhoods are under siege and there is a noticeable shortage in medical and first aid supplies.
Khaldiyeh | Remains of one of the fallen heroes killed by the bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Ymd9peOdw
Khaldiyeh | A person wounded as a result of the bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcrXxdWYuM
Khaldiyeh | Mosques broadcasting prayers in response to the bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0_af3fd2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luUViiDDY-8
Khaldiyeh | Smoke rising following bombing of the neighborhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFSG2_Un_HM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRScJVa2i0c
Khaldiyeh | al-Wadi area, where bombing with mortars resulted in destroying buildings
https://youtu.be/u2zjJUJ0BlQ
https://youtu.be/uNxgmJB6kB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8CCx65PgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1qeDAT6ti0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sem9tZoBIt8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5IxdzRe7W4
Rifai | Artillery shelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjMttmhvbU0
https://youtu.be/Rep3YetzpG8
Karm al-Zeitoun | An old man and a young man get injured by gunfire from Shabiha thugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqb4zlAfY2k
Karm al-Zeitoun | The conditions of those displaced from the neighborhood
https://youtu.be/UwM8DBr3YGc
Karm al-Zeitoun | Smoke rises above the city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYz2chXu4nQ
Karm al-Zeitoun | Destruction marks from bombing on Riad al-Saleheen mosque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJF2By2bsY
Deir Balba | Violent bombing and smoke rising with some of the resulting destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geHBNrYXdSI
Deir Balba | destruction marks on one home from mortar bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8hzy910J4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJVGiLqbm8
Rural Homs: towns in the vicinity of Homs did not escape the violence either, as the areas of Rastan and Holeh witnessed heavy gunfire and violent explosions, which resulted in many getting wounded or killed. The area of Tadmur also saw some military reinforcements and tanks arrive to town.
Tadmur | Tanks situated by the Military Security branch
https://youtu.be/xhuOi9IOgpA
Today’s confirmed fallen heroes:
1- Abdelhamid Abdelnafe’e, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
2- Ghassan Khalid Shalb al-Sham, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
3- Ammar al-Masri, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
4- Ahmad Mashlouh, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
5- Abdelgaffar al-Hussein, bombing by Assad forces | Khaldiyeh
6- Jassem al-Lahham, bombing by Assad forces | Karm al-Zeitoun
7- Khalid al-Tadmuri (Abu Safwan) | Karm al-Shami
8- Assya Hussein al-Hamoud, killed by a sniper | Karm al-Zeitoun
9- Unidentified fallen hero, killed at a checkpoint and body is being held there | Holeh
10- Hussein al-Hussein al-Akkidi | Waar
11- Ahmad Abboud | Qusayr – Rabiya village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDpk6Us87ro
12- Ausama al-Zakahi | Holeh
13- Adham al-Abrash, 33 | Bayada
14- Muhammad Murad (Abu Sabri) | Bayada
15- Mujanad Manshak | Bayada
16- Adnan Abdeljalil Khabbaz | Bab Sbaa
http://t.co/UoktI2r0
17- Unidentified fallen hero | Inshaat
https://youtu.be/5_oT19OQWKY
18- Fatimah Hussein Hamada, 10, random bombing by Assad forces | Holeh
19- Ramez al-Abdullah, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
https://youtu.be/jL48CQQMOPc
20- Mazeed al-Hamad, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
21- Hattem al-Ali, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
22- Abdelhamid Kara Hasan, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
23- Abdelhamid Sabbouh, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
24- Dyaa al-Sheikh Fidaa, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
25- Adnan Khider Salameh, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
26- Abdelkareem Mubarak, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
27- Bade’e al-Ahmad, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
28- An unidentified child, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
https://youtu.be/-FpPdanztas
29- Fadi Abdelsami’i al-Atassi, 39, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr – from Inshaat
30-43 About 14 fallen heroes whose names have not yet been confirmed, bombing by Assad forces | Baba Amr
44- Najib Izzeldeen, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
45- Muhammad Deeb al-Mehrez, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
46- Ahmad Hasan al-Mehrez, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
47- Ayham Mahmoud Bahbouh, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
48- Fatimah al-Mehrez, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
49- Qusai al-Arour, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
50- Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
51- Muhammad Izzeldeen, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
52- Khadija Abdelmonem al-Hajj Ali, 11, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
53- Maher al-Masri, bombing by Assad forces | Rastan
54- Fahher Sabee Shlar | Bab Sbaa
55- Turki al-Doumani | Bayada
56- Bilal Khalid Issa al-Faouri | Bayada
57- Ahmad Hikmat Balika | Bayada
58- Bilal Mahmoud Saad al-Deen | Bayada