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Report on the province of Aleppo and its surroundings 05/01/2013 [SYRIA]
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• Summary for 05/01/2013 :
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Number of arrests: 2
Number of martyrs: 5
Number of demonstrations: -
Peaceful revolutionary activities: -
Number of demonstrations that had fire opened onto: -
Number of cases of opening fire: 11
Number of shelled places: 15
Number of times that heavy army equipment was used: -
Number of defections: 66

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• Violations:

1) Injured and wounded:

*A’thamiyeh: a woman was injured in her leg due to Assad’s militia indiscriminately targeting passers-by at the quartermasters checkpoint [Mustawda’aat al-Tamween].

*Sabe’ Bahraat: civilians were injured due to the tank shelling.

*Masakin Hanano: a number were injured due to the artillery shelling in the evening.

2) Sabe’ Bahraat: impact of the violent shelling:
https://youtu.be/IZieUU1YE-E

3) Dahret ‘Awad: fire broke out in a residential building near Hamza mosque due to the artillery shelling in the evening. Civilians, with the cooperation of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), are extinguishing the fire.

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• Cases of gunfire:

1) Maysaloun: Assad militia snipers stationed in Babillee building in Maysaloun, opposite Maysaloun school and on the outskirts of Bab al-Hadeed neighbourhood, targeted passers-by.

2) A’thamiyeh: Assad’s militia indiscriminately targeted passers-by at the quartermasters checkpoint [Mustawda’aat al-Tamween] in the neighbourhood, where they opened fire on a woman who was crossing the road in the morning, wounding her in her leg.

3) Aleppo: violent clashes between the FSA and Assad’s militia took place around Kindee hospital.

4) Marjeh: violent clashes between the FSA and Assad’s militia.

5) Bustan al-Basha: violent clashes between the FSA and Assad’s militia.

6) Itha’ah: violent clashes between the FSA and Assad’s militia.

7) Salah al-Deen: violent clashes between the FSA and Assad’s militia.

8) New Aleppo [Halab al-Jadida]: sounds of sporadic gunfire were heard in the northern part of the neighbourhood.

9) Furqan: sounds of sporadic gunfire were heard.

10) Zahraa’: violent clashes between the FSA and Assad’s militia around the air intelligence branch [mukhabaraat] during the early hours of dawn.

11) Rural Aleppo - Kuweirs airport: violent clashes between the FSA and Assad’s militia around the military airport.

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• Places that were shelled:

1) Heidariyeh: artillery shelling in the evening.

2) Kindee hospital: mortar shelling around the hospital.

3) Rahbeh: mortar shelling around the region.

4) Uwaijah: mortar shelling around the region.

5) Qadee Askar: artillery shelling of the neighbourhood.

6) Sabe’ Bahraat: violent tank shelling in the evening.

7) Dahret ‘Awad: artillery shelling in the evening.

8) Mansoura: mortar shelling in the evening.

9) Masakin Hanano: artillery shelling in the evening.

10) Sheikh Khadar: artillery shelling in the evening.

* Shelling of rural Aleppo:

11) Qubtan al-Jabal: violent artillery shelling during the early hours of dawn.

12) Basartoun: artillery shelling during the early hours of dawn.

13) Deir Jamar: artillery shelling in the late afternoon.

14) Hreitan: artillery shelling during the early hours of dawn.

15) Azaaz: artillery shelling in the evening.

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• Martyrs:

1) Karam al-Turab: the body of martyr Ahmad Taher Daher, 66 years, was found alongside several other rotting corpses in Suleiman al-Halabi. He was martyred by snipers in the neighbourhood.

2) Bustan al-Basha: an unidentified martyr was sniped in the neighbourhood:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=412751068802719&set=a.377077645703395.90191.377060269038466&type=1&relevant_count=1

3) Rural Aleppo - Azaaz: Suhaib Khaleel was killed during clashes in Manegh military airport.

4-5) Rural Aleppo - Atareb: 2 unidentified martyrs were killed as a result of the shelling.

• Also documented:

-Leiramoun: defected military Muhammad Hussain al-Khateeb (“Al-Sahour”), 22 years, was killed during clashes near Kindee hospital. He was martyred 03/01/2013 and was a resident in Hreitan.

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• Arrests:

1) Akramiyeh: 2 young men were arrested by Assad’s men, one of whom was a displaced refugee in Mahmoud Tayfour school.

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• Defections:

1) Aleppo: 3 soldiers from the military police in Aleppo defected:
https://youtu.be/c7WgXAUM51I

2) Aleppo: a military personnel defected and joined the FSA:
https://youtu.be/n6gXHPihjts

3) Sabe’ Bahraat: a soldier defected from one of the Nufoos buildings.

4) Rural Aleppo - Kuweirs: 13 soldiers defected from inside Kuweirs military airport:
https://youtu.be/p07x7afNqyg

5) Rural Aleppo - Safira: battalions of the FSA secured the defection of 48 soldiers from Assad’s militia in the defence factories.

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• Miscellaneous:

1) Firdous: a child selling hareesa (puree):
https://youtu.be/HknxJts-hcA

2) Aleppo: a lost mother searches for her missing children in Aleppo:
https://youtu.be/drMsZZAfrB8

3) Rural Aleppo - Manegh airport: great fires in the leadership building [Qiyada]:
https://youtu.be/2A9VMdshMkI

4) Rural Aleppo - Jarablus: the condition of schools in Jarablus after the revolution for freedom, in which the “nationalism” subject was removed from the curriculum:
https://youtu.be/VvHPy67btJ4

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• Delayed news and videos:

1) Bustan al-Qasr: dressing the wounds of a child who was injured in her head and hand 04/01/2013:
https://youtu.be/o8r0QUbM-ho

2) Itha’ah: recovering a rotten, unidentified body 11/12/2012:
https://youtu.be/1lG_R8LwMEE

3) Rural Aleppo - Injareh: impact of the shelling 04/01/2013:
https://youtu.be/m4FxSfpEOOg

4) Rural Aleppo - Duwairineh: shelling of a cable factory near Duwairineh area 28/12/2012:
https://youtu.be/nyj02Ku9LK4

5) Rural Aleppo - Hayyan: 03/01/2013:
-Recovering the body parts of a martyr from under the rubble 18+:
https://youtu.be/O0-fe6pZf0c
-Succouring of casualties of the shelling. Doctor Abu al-Nour Ahmad speaks to all the doctors who have given up hope:
https://youtu.be/3C40_L0mGcw

6) Rural Aleppo - Atareb: a number of rockets fell yesterday evening, killing 2 children and injuring a man 04/01/2013.