========================Report on the province of Aleppo and its surroundings 16/08/2013 [SYRIA]
Friday of ‘Supporting the revolutionaries of the coast’
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• Summary for 16/08/2013:
Friday of ‘Supporting the revolutionaries of the coast’
Number of arrests: -
Number of martyrs: 51
Number of demonstrations: 9
Peaceful revolutionary activities: -
Number of demonstrations that had fire opened onto: -
Number of cases of opening fire: 13
Number of shelled places: 23
Number of times that heavy army equipment was used: -
Number of defections: -
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• Violations:
1) Injured and wounded:
*Bustan al-Qasr: casualties were injured by the shelling near one of the mosques.
*Bustan al-Qasr: the head of the Garage checkpoint crossing was fired at by some of the abusers who claim to be affiliated with the Free Syrian Army. The Sharia council opened investigations in the matter and vowed to hold accountability for the abusers.
*Kallaseh: dozens were injured due to the warplane shelling in the afternoon.
*Aleppo: someone was minorly wounded due to the shelling of the eastern areas in the evening.
*Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: someone was injured by the cluster bomb shelling in the late afternoon.
*Aleppo countryside - Bayanoun: casualties were injured, including women and children, due to the heavy artillery shelling of the town in these moments.
*Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: casualties were injured due to warplanes dropping cluster bombs on the city in the late afternoon.
*Aleppo countryside - Ma’aret al-Arteeq: a number of civilians were injured by Assad militia snipers after midnight:
https://youtu.be/UXyq0eUk_9U
2) Kallaseh: 3 residential buildings were destroyed due to the warplane shelling of the neighbourhood in the afternoon.
https://youtu.be/cH4rP5bUb5Q
https://youtu.be/scN4hXdyIlI
https://youtu.be/cE8IC8SDXpM
https://youtu.be/nGi2Xli3BL4
https://youtu.be/QnIdXdPfRYA
https://youtu.be/WDP9930HpHg
https://youtu.be/ARKNHztyhkw
https://youtu.be/8yH8W6jmxRA
https://youtu.be/3laI1tGdaF4
https://youtu.be/8RxhL5bAK6g
https://youtu.be/qXRpcy_7_rk
https://youtu.be/EhgzjfVCOWU
https://youtu.be/Zjka2X39wDg
https://youtu.be/IijCZ6DlePU
3) Mashariqa: activists reported the repetition of torture operations being carried out by military security soldiers at the checkpoint in front of Tufaha bakery in the neighbourhood a number of times. An eyewitness reported that regime forces occupied a number of civilian houses in Mashariqa neighbourhood and that some of these houses are being used as torture prisons for detainees, whose fates are most likely to be death under torture. The area of Mashariqa is considered to be the only liberated district that links between the districts under the control of the Free Syrian Army and those under the control of regime forces in Aleppo city. It is a route which thousands of civilians in Aleppo take daily. Activists documented the following responsible for the torture operations:
*Bashar Skeif, called ‘Abu Emad’. He is a warrant officer in the military security.
*Husam, called ‘Abu Ja’far’, from Fo’ah village in Idlib.
*Maher Suleiman
4) Aleppo countryside - Hamima: footage showing the impact of the shelling near one of the houses:
https://youtu.be/8opRHL34SSY
5) Aleppo countryside - Bayanoun: impact of a shell that fell:
https://youtu.be/xXUql573ilg
*Impact of the shelling of Khan Bin al-Waleed mosque:
https://youtu.be/xQB1AbM24AI
6) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: warplanes used a number of bombs, considered to be a type of cluster bombs, to shell the city in the late afternoon. It should be noted that it is the second time that these missiles have been used in Aleppo province. Warplanes targeted Tel Rif’at with these bombs on 01/08/2013.
https://youtu.be/Y9HeGNdarRE
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491196700974310.1073742027.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=3
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• Cases of gunfire:
1) Bustan al-Qasr: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at dawn.
2) Sakhour: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at dawn.
3) Bustan al-Qasr: the head of the Garage checkpoint crossing was fired at by some of the abusers who claim to be affiliated with the Free Syrian Army. The Sharia council opened investigations in the matter and vowed to hold accountability for the abusers.
4) Salah al-Deen: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at dawn.
5) Salah al-Deen: a number of houses were burned due to Assad’s militia targeting them with explosive bombs, whilst violent clashes continued from the direction of Khudr mosque in the evening.
6) Hamdaniyeh: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at the military academy in the afternoon.
7) Jamiliyeh: violent clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia in the evening.
Itha’ah: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at the broadcasting and television building.
9) Hamdaniyeh: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia near the police station in the evening
10) Neirab military airport: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia in the evening.
https://youtu.be/ryhAtKksi6k
11) Zahraa’: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at the air intelligence [mukhabarat] branch in the evening.
https://youtu.be/sBCyiX1JwKw
12) Leiramoun: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia in the evening.
https://youtu.be/F8wA_KQ_mNU
13) Aleppo countryside - Azizah: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia in the late afternoon.
https://youtu.be/FXCRDF62XS0
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• Places that were shelled:
1) Bustan al-Qasr: shelling in the morning. Artillery shelling was renewed in the afternoon and then further renewed in the late afternoon.
2) Sakhour: artillery shelling at dawn.
3) Ansaree: artillery shelling in the late afternoon. Shelling was renewed in the evening.
4) Jaloum: shelling in the evening.
5) Bab Qinisreen: shelling in the evening.
6) Northern Rashideen: artillery shelling in the late afternoon.
7) Shaykh Maqsoud: warplane shelling in the evening.
Ashrafiyeh: warplane shelling in the evening.
9) Jandoul roundabout: warplane shelling in the evening.
10) Bustan al-Basha: warplane shelling on the area situated between Bustan al-Basha and Shaykh Fares in the evening.
11) The youth residential area: artillery shelling of the youth residential area in Ashrafiyeh in the evening.
12) Bani Zaid: artillery shelling in the evening.
13) Kallaseh: artillery shelling at dawn. Artillery and warplane shelling were renewed in the late afternoon.
https://youtu.be/cH4rP5bUb5Q
*Aleppo countryside:
14) Orem al-Kubra: machine gun shelling from warplanes during the early hours of dawn.
15) Al-Bab: machine gun shelling from warplanes at dawn.
16) Tadef machine gun shelling from warplanes at dawn.
17) Zarbeh: warplane shelling at dawn.
18) Hamimah: artillery and warplane shelling at dawn.
19) Tel Ayoub: warplane shelling in the morning.
20) Jdaideh: warplane shelling in the morning.
21) Qubtan al-Jabal: shelling from rocket launchers in the afternoon.
22) Deir Hafer: warplane shelling in the late afternoon, which was renewed in the evening.
23) Bayanoun: artillery shelling in the afternoon.
https://youtu.be/h-acHH-tLaU
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• Martyrs:
1) Bustan al-Qasr: child Mustafa Karouk, 11 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
2) Bustan al-Qasr: child Yahya Hasoun, 8 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
3) Bustan al-Qasr: Ahmad Azraq, 30 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
4) Bustan al-Qasr: Ibrahim Dabbas, 60 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
5) Bustan al-Qasr: Muhammad As’ad Jaleq, 32 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
6) Bustan al-Qasr: Ibrahim Hanoura, 40 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
7) Bustan al-Qasr: Muhammad Sarheel, 40 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
Bustan al-Qasr: female Wafaa’ Kibbeh, 50 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
9) Bustan al-Qasr: child Fatima Majouz, 8 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
10) Bustan al-Qasr: Majed Safi, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
11) Bustan al-Qasr: Ammar Fares, 32 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
12) Bustan al-Qasr: Maher al-Taha, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
13) Bustan al-Qasr: an unidentified child was killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBMUstZk9XdVhxV00/edit?usp=sharing
14) Bustan al-Qasr: female Yaman Omar Batesh, 21 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
15) Bustan al-Qasr: Ahmad Aqeel, killed while under operation, from wounds caused by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
16) Bustan al-Qasr: female Ghazwa Kour (wife of al-Anjarinee), killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
17) Bustan al-Qasr: female Ghufran Kour (wife of Ajam), killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
18) Bustan al-Qasr: child Mahmoud Shaykh Dabbas, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBTjFORUdJX2JEZjg/edit?usp=sharing
19) Bustan al-Qasr: Maher Muhammad Matar, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
20-29) Bustan al-Qasr: 10 unidentified martyrs were documented, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
*Pictures and clips of some of the martyrs from the massacre:
https://youtu.be/v67z48WCBjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP9930HpHg&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cH4rP5bUb5Q
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBbWpIQnFnRmR6U0k/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBWkROdDgwZ0gzZmc/edit?usp=sharing
30) Mayassar: Yousef Abdulwahed Hamsho, died from wounds he had sustained from the shelling of the neighbourhood three days ago.
31) Masakin Hanano: Ziyad Ahmad Souranee, 43 year, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
32) Salah al-Deen: female Fatima Saber, 27 years, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
33) Salah al-Deen: Muhammad Anas Hatabee, 26 years, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
34) Aleppo: Muhammad Bin Khalid Filees, 24 years, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
35) An unidentified martyr, 30 years, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=517849014961973&set=a.414183771995165.98671.414177331995809&type=1&theater
36) Aleppo: Abdul-Muttalib Abdul-Qader Asiba, from the Free Syrian Army, was sniped in Rashideen area in Aleppo.
37) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: Muhammad Bin Shaykho Abu Radis, 70 years, konwn as Abu Idrees, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
38) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: female Maryam Ahmad al-Abdul-Omar, 70 years, wife of Muhammad Abu Idrees, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
39) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: child Haydar Ahmad al-Hussain, 9 years, grandson of Muhammad Shaykho, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
40) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: child Shamsa Ahmad al-Jussain, grandchild of Muhammad Shaykho, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
41) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: child Yousef Ahmad al-Hussain, 8 years, grandchild of Muhammad Shaykho, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
-Clips of the massacre in Deir Hafer:
https://youtu.be/eR32p1ZqdCA
https://youtu.be/XMTqvPZ_pWY
https://youtu.be/8h9SiU9eaXQ
42) Aleppo countryside - Minnegh: Abdul-Basit Uthman, from the Free Syrian Army, died of wounds he had sustained during clashes around Minnegh military airport.
43) Aleppo countryside - Tal’aran: Hamza al-Ahmad Bin Alo, killed during clashes with the PKK 28/07/2013.
44) Aleppo countryside - Bayanoun: female Fatima Mansour al-Tayt, killed by the shelling.
45) Aleppo countryside - Bayanoun: child Mansour Ammar Tayt, 6 and a half (his mother is martyr Fatima Mansour al-Tayt), killed by the shelling.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBNnNweWU2WkVvTnM/edit?usp=sharing
46) Aleppo countryside - al-Ibzamo: Adnan Abdo Eisa, of the Free Syrian Army, killed during clashes at a brick factory in Idlib.
47) Aleppo countryside - al-Ibzamo: Adnan Eisa, of the Free Syrian Army, killed during clashes with regime forces.
48) Aleppo countryside - Kafr Hamra: female Anaya Muhammad Hilal Taj-ul-Deen, 55 years, killed by a shell which fell on the area of the English cemetary, behind ‘Shahba Mall’ building.
49-51) Aleppo countryside - Kafr Hamra: 3 unidentified martyrs were killed when a shell fell on the area of the English cemetary, behind ‘Shahba Mall’ building.
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• Demonstrations:
1) Mash-had: demonstration from Ali Bin Abi Talib mosque calling for freedom and condemning the massacres committed by Assad’s militia.
2) Tareeq al-Bab: 2 demonstrations after Friday prayers from Shuhadaa’ al-Aqsa mosque and Fajr al-Islam mosque, calling for an Islamic Caliphate and asserting the unity of the Syrian and Egyptian people.
*Demonstration from Shuhadaa’ al-Aqsa mosque:
https://youtu.be/rCOy0LH4jm8
https://youtu.be/__1ufTDOH4A
https://youtu.be/feDG9paaj2E
https://youtu.be/Bb529eBagzY
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491194527641194.1073742026.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=12
*Demonstration at Fajr al-Islam mosque:
https://youtu.be/lsnZYy0ifPU
https://youtu.be/BLDTzti43Hw
3) Ba’eideen: demonstration after Friday prayers from Uthman Bin Math’oun mosque, chanting for the unity of the Egyptian and Syrian people.
https://youtu.be/tgTQ8rrN3TA
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491080497652597.1073742023.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=4
*Demonstrations in Aleppo countryside:
4) Qubtan al-Jabal: afternoon demonstration calling for the Egyptian people:
https://youtu.be/zx6ftMNuHak
https://youtu.be/0tZ5oDjiPdk
https://youtu.be/jY43rSvtVKQ
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491172590976721.1073742025.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=7
6) Minnegh: first demonstration since the liberation of the airport calling for the fall of the regime and chanting for the Egyptian people.
https://youtu.be/5fkzGBclx5s
https://youtu.be/hQuvUQ79jBI
7) Minbej: demonstration from most mosques of the city calling for the fall of the regime and condemning the assassination of the scholar Shaykh Abu Sa’eed al-Deibo, imam of the Great mosque, who was assassinated at dawn yesterday by unidentified gunmen when he was going to perform dawn prayers. The demonstration called for revenge against it.
https://youtu.be/4dXSIMt9CFY
https://youtu.be/Ccu_dm-iLNE
https://youtu.be/wvKsxwviZaE
https://youtu.be/tNnpDJTWgk4
-Abteen: demonstration calling for the fall of the regime and calling for the accountability of those responsible for flour in the southern countryside.
https://youtu.be/L-2hBfB4f1g
https://youtu.be/VsymO1pgDjY
https://youtu.be/QEensDgSS28
Anadan: demonstration from Hamza mosque after a long absence of peaceful movement, in protest of the bloodshed in Mayadeen an-Nahda and Rabi’ah in Egypt. Military leaders from the FSA participated.
https://youtu.be/fiCvy3xx9ck
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491157097644937.1073742024.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=12
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• Miscellaneous:
1) Kallaseh: search operations for survivers under the rubble after warplane shelling:
https://youtu.be/teeuyde56gA
https://youtu.be/yxZTpwVzxxA
https://youtu.be/82oHPW7uTvc
https://youtu.be/nSrvSLZvdDs
https://youtu.be/haY6VDovsWU
https://youtu.be/fT3gLjG6GfI
https://youtu.be/vKd5UirGhtM
https://youtu.be/FE5Af55t4NQ
-18+ - first moments of the massacre (5 minutes)
https://youtu.be/Y0yOJKfkaws
https://youtu.be/mIvxkhO1754
-Recovering a martyr from the massacre:
https://youtu.be/Wjs9FLNNOu8
https://youtu.be/61zY2Rln77Q
-Moment an artillery shell fell during an operation to recover bodies:
https://youtu.be/_rBl-L5Vy_c
-A child after the shelling:
https://youtu.be/rabt6_UpZzk
-A father who lost his family after the shelling:
https://youtu.be/bg1p0MqjJXc
-A civilian witnesses the massacre:
https://youtu.be/cKuNaZY1NcM
-Recovering a martyr from under the rubble:
https://youtu.be/yC7OP5fFLsM
-A state of panic among civilian:
https://youtu.be/YV-5m7x_p_A
-Aleppo city brigade contributes towards rescuing civilians:
https://youtu.be/vt6KwzXgDXQ
-An interview with a civil defence personnel:
https://youtu.be/_vUGbOTJXCc
-A father cries after he lost his entire family in the massacre:
https://youtu.be/Xx3uRj2tMZw
-Recovering a woman from under the rubble and a continued operation to recover survivors and the dead:
https://youtu.be/H3ikSSTwZ4s
-An album of more than 45 pictures showing the operation of recovering martyrs and survivors from under the rubble, the great destruction that was caused in residential buildings and the state of civilians after warplanes targeted the neighbourhood in the afternoon:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491033690990611.1073742022.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=2
-Recovering a child on the brink of life from under the rubble:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=491135047647142&set=a.491033690990611.1073742022.113270092100308&type=3&theater
*The search operation for martyrs and civilians trapped under the rubble is ongoing up until now, 11 hours after the massacre was committed, which claimed the lives of over 25 martyrs.
https://youtu.be/0ZhGMinthEw
2) Hamdaniyeh: an extremely thorough search of cars and young men of military ages at roundabout 3000 in the late afternoon.
3) Sokaree: the Sokaree clinic, part of the Islamic Sham commission, directed a letter to all hospitals and medical clinics in the liberated areas of Aleppo requesting a paediatrician consultant physician for cardiovascular diseases (open heart/congenital heart lesions) to visit the clinics in Sokaree and Sha’ar as of last Monday 12/08/2013 until 27/08/2013 from 10am-2pm, or in Hakin hospital in Sha’ar from 3pm-8pm.
4) Aleppo countryside - Safira: the Sharia council addressed a message to members of the Free Syrian Army stationed at checkpoints in the liberated areas to not arbitrarily arrest civilians from Tal’aran and Tal Hasel, and not to arrest any person except for the wanted names, according to the wanted lists.
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• Delayed videos and news:
1) New Aleppo: security forces besieged Mutabanni school yesterday, which is located south of the neighbourhood, to catch one of the shabeeha, with no known reason for their disputes amongst one another.
2) Saif al-Dowleh: activists reported that regime forces gathered some young men by force at Zeino crossing on Tuesday evening, where they used them as human shields, and forced them to chant for the Assad regime.
3) Sha’ar: demonstration condemning Sisi’s massacre in Egypt, with the participation of women and a number of committees 15/08/2013
https://youtu.be/JmKSjaxxH0E
4) Bustan al-Qasr: Garage checkpoint crossing 15/08/2013
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=490926394334674&set=a.114930265267624.21960.113270092100308&type=1&theater
5) Aleppo countryside - Ein Daqna village: an elderly woman tells of what warplanes and Assad militia artillery did to civilian houses in the village bordering Minnegh military airport 15/08/2013.
https://youtu.be/wSqkRwEq088
6) Aleppo countryside - Kafr Hamra: some of the stolen goods which were seized, along with some of the thieves, by the police station of the city 15/08/2013.
https://youtu.be/7fv1EBtenjc
7) Southern Aleppo countryside - Aziza: 15/08/2013 - violent clashes with Assad’s militia from the front of Aziza village.
https://youtu.be/jTndon5GHx4
https://youtu.be/HvFl8qbsDVA
https://youtu.be/-NrVJN693kk
Friday of ‘Supporting the revolutionaries of the coast’
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• Summary for 16/08/2013:
Friday of ‘Supporting the revolutionaries of the coast’
Number of arrests: -
Number of martyrs: 51
Number of demonstrations: 9
Peaceful revolutionary activities: -
Number of demonstrations that had fire opened onto: -
Number of cases of opening fire: 13
Number of shelled places: 23
Number of times that heavy army equipment was used: -
Number of defections: -
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• Violations:
1) Injured and wounded:
*Bustan al-Qasr: casualties were injured by the shelling near one of the mosques.
*Bustan al-Qasr: the head of the Garage checkpoint crossing was fired at by some of the abusers who claim to be affiliated with the Free Syrian Army. The Sharia council opened investigations in the matter and vowed to hold accountability for the abusers.
*Kallaseh: dozens were injured due to the warplane shelling in the afternoon.
*Aleppo: someone was minorly wounded due to the shelling of the eastern areas in the evening.
*Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: someone was injured by the cluster bomb shelling in the late afternoon.
*Aleppo countryside - Bayanoun: casualties were injured, including women and children, due to the heavy artillery shelling of the town in these moments.
*Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: casualties were injured due to warplanes dropping cluster bombs on the city in the late afternoon.
*Aleppo countryside - Ma’aret al-Arteeq: a number of civilians were injured by Assad militia snipers after midnight:
https://youtu.be/UXyq0eUk_9U
2) Kallaseh: 3 residential buildings were destroyed due to the warplane shelling of the neighbourhood in the afternoon.
https://youtu.be/cH4rP5bUb5Q
https://youtu.be/scN4hXdyIlI
https://youtu.be/cE8IC8SDXpM
https://youtu.be/nGi2Xli3BL4
https://youtu.be/QnIdXdPfRYA
https://youtu.be/WDP9930HpHg
https://youtu.be/ARKNHztyhkw
https://youtu.be/8yH8W6jmxRA
https://youtu.be/3laI1tGdaF4
https://youtu.be/8RxhL5bAK6g
https://youtu.be/qXRpcy_7_rk
https://youtu.be/EhgzjfVCOWU
https://youtu.be/Zjka2X39wDg
https://youtu.be/IijCZ6DlePU
3) Mashariqa: activists reported the repetition of torture operations being carried out by military security soldiers at the checkpoint in front of Tufaha bakery in the neighbourhood a number of times. An eyewitness reported that regime forces occupied a number of civilian houses in Mashariqa neighbourhood and that some of these houses are being used as torture prisons for detainees, whose fates are most likely to be death under torture. The area of Mashariqa is considered to be the only liberated district that links between the districts under the control of the Free Syrian Army and those under the control of regime forces in Aleppo city. It is a route which thousands of civilians in Aleppo take daily. Activists documented the following responsible for the torture operations:
*Bashar Skeif, called ‘Abu Emad’. He is a warrant officer in the military security.
*Husam, called ‘Abu Ja’far’, from Fo’ah village in Idlib.
*Maher Suleiman
4) Aleppo countryside - Hamima: footage showing the impact of the shelling near one of the houses:
https://youtu.be/8opRHL34SSY
5) Aleppo countryside - Bayanoun: impact of a shell that fell:
https://youtu.be/xXUql573ilg
*Impact of the shelling of Khan Bin al-Waleed mosque:
https://youtu.be/xQB1AbM24AI
6) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: warplanes used a number of bombs, considered to be a type of cluster bombs, to shell the city in the late afternoon. It should be noted that it is the second time that these missiles have been used in Aleppo province. Warplanes targeted Tel Rif’at with these bombs on 01/08/2013.
https://youtu.be/Y9HeGNdarRE
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491196700974310.1073742027.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=3
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• Cases of gunfire:
1) Bustan al-Qasr: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at dawn.
2) Sakhour: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at dawn.
3) Bustan al-Qasr: the head of the Garage checkpoint crossing was fired at by some of the abusers who claim to be affiliated with the Free Syrian Army. The Sharia council opened investigations in the matter and vowed to hold accountability for the abusers.
4) Salah al-Deen: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at dawn.
5) Salah al-Deen: a number of houses were burned due to Assad’s militia targeting them with explosive bombs, whilst violent clashes continued from the direction of Khudr mosque in the evening.
6) Hamdaniyeh: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at the military academy in the afternoon.
7) Jamiliyeh: violent clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia in the evening.
Itha’ah: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at the broadcasting and television building.
9) Hamdaniyeh: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia near the police station in the evening
10) Neirab military airport: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia in the evening.
https://youtu.be/ryhAtKksi6k
11) Zahraa’: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia at the air intelligence [mukhabarat] branch in the evening.
https://youtu.be/sBCyiX1JwKw
12) Leiramoun: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia in the evening.
https://youtu.be/F8wA_KQ_mNU
13) Aleppo countryside - Azizah: clashes took place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s militia in the late afternoon.
https://youtu.be/FXCRDF62XS0
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• Places that were shelled:
1) Bustan al-Qasr: shelling in the morning. Artillery shelling was renewed in the afternoon and then further renewed in the late afternoon.
2) Sakhour: artillery shelling at dawn.
3) Ansaree: artillery shelling in the late afternoon. Shelling was renewed in the evening.
4) Jaloum: shelling in the evening.
5) Bab Qinisreen: shelling in the evening.
6) Northern Rashideen: artillery shelling in the late afternoon.
7) Shaykh Maqsoud: warplane shelling in the evening.
Ashrafiyeh: warplane shelling in the evening.
9) Jandoul roundabout: warplane shelling in the evening.
10) Bustan al-Basha: warplane shelling on the area situated between Bustan al-Basha and Shaykh Fares in the evening.
11) The youth residential area: artillery shelling of the youth residential area in Ashrafiyeh in the evening.
12) Bani Zaid: artillery shelling in the evening.
13) Kallaseh: artillery shelling at dawn. Artillery and warplane shelling were renewed in the late afternoon.
https://youtu.be/cH4rP5bUb5Q
*Aleppo countryside:
14) Orem al-Kubra: machine gun shelling from warplanes during the early hours of dawn.
15) Al-Bab: machine gun shelling from warplanes at dawn.
16) Tadef machine gun shelling from warplanes at dawn.
17) Zarbeh: warplane shelling at dawn.
18) Hamimah: artillery and warplane shelling at dawn.
19) Tel Ayoub: warplane shelling in the morning.
20) Jdaideh: warplane shelling in the morning.
21) Qubtan al-Jabal: shelling from rocket launchers in the afternoon.
22) Deir Hafer: warplane shelling in the late afternoon, which was renewed in the evening.
23) Bayanoun: artillery shelling in the afternoon.
https://youtu.be/h-acHH-tLaU
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• Martyrs:
1) Bustan al-Qasr: child Mustafa Karouk, 11 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
2) Bustan al-Qasr: child Yahya Hasoun, 8 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
3) Bustan al-Qasr: Ahmad Azraq, 30 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
4) Bustan al-Qasr: Ibrahim Dabbas, 60 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
5) Bustan al-Qasr: Muhammad As’ad Jaleq, 32 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
6) Bustan al-Qasr: Ibrahim Hanoura, 40 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
7) Bustan al-Qasr: Muhammad Sarheel, 40 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
Bustan al-Qasr: female Wafaa’ Kibbeh, 50 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
9) Bustan al-Qasr: child Fatima Majouz, 8 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
10) Bustan al-Qasr: Majed Safi, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
11) Bustan al-Qasr: Ammar Fares, 32 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
12) Bustan al-Qasr: Maher al-Taha, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
13) Bustan al-Qasr: an unidentified child was killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBMUstZk9XdVhxV00/edit?usp=sharing
14) Bustan al-Qasr: female Yaman Omar Batesh, 21 years, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
15) Bustan al-Qasr: Ahmad Aqeel, killed while under operation, from wounds caused by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
16) Bustan al-Qasr: female Ghazwa Kour (wife of al-Anjarinee), killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
17) Bustan al-Qasr: female Ghufran Kour (wife of Ajam), killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
18) Bustan al-Qasr: child Mahmoud Shaykh Dabbas, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBTjFORUdJX2JEZjg/edit?usp=sharing
19) Bustan al-Qasr: Maher Muhammad Matar, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
20-29) Bustan al-Qasr: 10 unidentified martyrs were documented, killed by the warplane shelling of Kallaseh and Bustan al-Qasr.
*Pictures and clips of some of the martyrs from the massacre:
https://youtu.be/v67z48WCBjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP9930HpHg&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cH4rP5bUb5Q
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBbWpIQnFnRmR6U0k/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBWkROdDgwZ0gzZmc/edit?usp=sharing
30) Mayassar: Yousef Abdulwahed Hamsho, died from wounds he had sustained from the shelling of the neighbourhood three days ago.
31) Masakin Hanano: Ziyad Ahmad Souranee, 43 year, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
32) Salah al-Deen: female Fatima Saber, 27 years, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
33) Salah al-Deen: Muhammad Anas Hatabee, 26 years, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
34) Aleppo: Muhammad Bin Khalid Filees, 24 years, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
35) An unidentified martyr, 30 years, was sniped at the Garage checkpoint crossing yesterday.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=517849014961973&set=a.414183771995165.98671.414177331995809&type=1&theater
36) Aleppo: Abdul-Muttalib Abdul-Qader Asiba, from the Free Syrian Army, was sniped in Rashideen area in Aleppo.
37) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: Muhammad Bin Shaykho Abu Radis, 70 years, konwn as Abu Idrees, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
38) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: female Maryam Ahmad al-Abdul-Omar, 70 years, wife of Muhammad Abu Idrees, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
39) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: child Haydar Ahmad al-Hussain, 9 years, grandson of Muhammad Shaykho, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
40) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: child Shamsa Ahmad al-Jussain, grandchild of Muhammad Shaykho, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
41) Aleppo countryside - Deir Hafer: child Yousef Ahmad al-Hussain, 8 years, grandchild of Muhammad Shaykho, was killed during a Sukhoi warplane air raid, which targeted the villages Hamimah and Tel Ayoub with TNT explosive barrels.
-Clips of the massacre in Deir Hafer:
https://youtu.be/eR32p1ZqdCA
https://youtu.be/XMTqvPZ_pWY
https://youtu.be/8h9SiU9eaXQ
42) Aleppo countryside - Minnegh: Abdul-Basit Uthman, from the Free Syrian Army, died of wounds he had sustained during clashes around Minnegh military airport.
43) Aleppo countryside - Tal’aran: Hamza al-Ahmad Bin Alo, killed during clashes with the PKK 28/07/2013.
44) Aleppo countryside - Bayanoun: female Fatima Mansour al-Tayt, killed by the shelling.
45) Aleppo countryside - Bayanoun: child Mansour Ammar Tayt, 6 and a half (his mother is martyr Fatima Mansour al-Tayt), killed by the shelling.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBNnNweWU2WkVvTnM/edit?usp=sharing
46) Aleppo countryside - al-Ibzamo: Adnan Abdo Eisa, of the Free Syrian Army, killed during clashes at a brick factory in Idlib.
47) Aleppo countryside - al-Ibzamo: Adnan Eisa, of the Free Syrian Army, killed during clashes with regime forces.
48) Aleppo countryside - Kafr Hamra: female Anaya Muhammad Hilal Taj-ul-Deen, 55 years, killed by a shell which fell on the area of the English cemetary, behind ‘Shahba Mall’ building.
49-51) Aleppo countryside - Kafr Hamra: 3 unidentified martyrs were killed when a shell fell on the area of the English cemetary, behind ‘Shahba Mall’ building.
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• Demonstrations:
1) Mash-had: demonstration from Ali Bin Abi Talib mosque calling for freedom and condemning the massacres committed by Assad’s militia.
2) Tareeq al-Bab: 2 demonstrations after Friday prayers from Shuhadaa’ al-Aqsa mosque and Fajr al-Islam mosque, calling for an Islamic Caliphate and asserting the unity of the Syrian and Egyptian people.
*Demonstration from Shuhadaa’ al-Aqsa mosque:
https://youtu.be/rCOy0LH4jm8
https://youtu.be/__1ufTDOH4A
https://youtu.be/feDG9paaj2E
https://youtu.be/Bb529eBagzY
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491194527641194.1073742026.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=12
*Demonstration at Fajr al-Islam mosque:
https://youtu.be/lsnZYy0ifPU
https://youtu.be/BLDTzti43Hw
3) Ba’eideen: demonstration after Friday prayers from Uthman Bin Math’oun mosque, chanting for the unity of the Egyptian and Syrian people.
https://youtu.be/tgTQ8rrN3TA
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491080497652597.1073742023.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=4
*Demonstrations in Aleppo countryside:
4) Qubtan al-Jabal: afternoon demonstration calling for the Egyptian people:
https://youtu.be/zx6ftMNuHak
https://youtu.be/0tZ5oDjiPdk
https://youtu.be/jY43rSvtVKQ
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491172590976721.1073742025.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=7
6) Minnegh: first demonstration since the liberation of the airport calling for the fall of the regime and chanting for the Egyptian people.
https://youtu.be/5fkzGBclx5s
https://youtu.be/hQuvUQ79jBI
7) Minbej: demonstration from most mosques of the city calling for the fall of the regime and condemning the assassination of the scholar Shaykh Abu Sa’eed al-Deibo, imam of the Great mosque, who was assassinated at dawn yesterday by unidentified gunmen when he was going to perform dawn prayers. The demonstration called for revenge against it.
https://youtu.be/4dXSIMt9CFY
https://youtu.be/Ccu_dm-iLNE
https://youtu.be/wvKsxwviZaE
https://youtu.be/tNnpDJTWgk4
-Abteen: demonstration calling for the fall of the regime and calling for the accountability of those responsible for flour in the southern countryside.
https://youtu.be/L-2hBfB4f1g
https://youtu.be/VsymO1pgDjY
https://youtu.be/QEensDgSS28
Anadan: demonstration from Hamza mosque after a long absence of peaceful movement, in protest of the bloodshed in Mayadeen an-Nahda and Rabi’ah in Egypt. Military leaders from the FSA participated.
https://youtu.be/fiCvy3xx9ck
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491157097644937.1073742024.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=12
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• Miscellaneous:
1) Kallaseh: search operations for survivers under the rubble after warplane shelling:
https://youtu.be/teeuyde56gA
https://youtu.be/yxZTpwVzxxA
https://youtu.be/82oHPW7uTvc
https://youtu.be/nSrvSLZvdDs
https://youtu.be/haY6VDovsWU
https://youtu.be/fT3gLjG6GfI
https://youtu.be/vKd5UirGhtM
https://youtu.be/FE5Af55t4NQ
-18+ - first moments of the massacre (5 minutes)
https://youtu.be/Y0yOJKfkaws
https://youtu.be/mIvxkhO1754
-Recovering a martyr from the massacre:
https://youtu.be/Wjs9FLNNOu8
https://youtu.be/61zY2Rln77Q
-Moment an artillery shell fell during an operation to recover bodies:
https://youtu.be/_rBl-L5Vy_c
-A child after the shelling:
https://youtu.be/rabt6_UpZzk
-A father who lost his family after the shelling:
https://youtu.be/bg1p0MqjJXc
-A civilian witnesses the massacre:
https://youtu.be/cKuNaZY1NcM
-Recovering a martyr from under the rubble:
https://youtu.be/yC7OP5fFLsM
-A state of panic among civilian:
https://youtu.be/YV-5m7x_p_A
-Aleppo city brigade contributes towards rescuing civilians:
https://youtu.be/vt6KwzXgDXQ
-An interview with a civil defence personnel:
https://youtu.be/_vUGbOTJXCc
-A father cries after he lost his entire family in the massacre:
https://youtu.be/Xx3uRj2tMZw
-Recovering a woman from under the rubble and a continued operation to recover survivors and the dead:
https://youtu.be/H3ikSSTwZ4s
-An album of more than 45 pictures showing the operation of recovering martyrs and survivors from under the rubble, the great destruction that was caused in residential buildings and the state of civilians after warplanes targeted the neighbourhood in the afternoon:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.491033690990611.1073742022.113270092100308&type=3&uploaded=2
-Recovering a child on the brink of life from under the rubble:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=491135047647142&set=a.491033690990611.1073742022.113270092100308&type=3&theater
*The search operation for martyrs and civilians trapped under the rubble is ongoing up until now, 11 hours after the massacre was committed, which claimed the lives of over 25 martyrs.
https://youtu.be/0ZhGMinthEw
2) Hamdaniyeh: an extremely thorough search of cars and young men of military ages at roundabout 3000 in the late afternoon.
3) Sokaree: the Sokaree clinic, part of the Islamic Sham commission, directed a letter to all hospitals and medical clinics in the liberated areas of Aleppo requesting a paediatrician consultant physician for cardiovascular diseases (open heart/congenital heart lesions) to visit the clinics in Sokaree and Sha’ar as of last Monday 12/08/2013 until 27/08/2013 from 10am-2pm, or in Hakin hospital in Sha’ar from 3pm-8pm.
4) Aleppo countryside - Safira: the Sharia council addressed a message to members of the Free Syrian Army stationed at checkpoints in the liberated areas to not arbitrarily arrest civilians from Tal’aran and Tal Hasel, and not to arrest any person except for the wanted names, according to the wanted lists.
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• Delayed videos and news:
1) New Aleppo: security forces besieged Mutabanni school yesterday, which is located south of the neighbourhood, to catch one of the shabeeha, with no known reason for their disputes amongst one another.
2) Saif al-Dowleh: activists reported that regime forces gathered some young men by force at Zeino crossing on Tuesday evening, where they used them as human shields, and forced them to chant for the Assad regime.
3) Sha’ar: demonstration condemning Sisi’s massacre in Egypt, with the participation of women and a number of committees 15/08/2013
https://youtu.be/JmKSjaxxH0E
4) Bustan al-Qasr: Garage checkpoint crossing 15/08/2013
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=490926394334674&set=a.114930265267624.21960.113270092100308&type=1&theater
5) Aleppo countryside - Ein Daqna village: an elderly woman tells of what warplanes and Assad militia artillery did to civilian houses in the village bordering Minnegh military airport 15/08/2013.
https://youtu.be/wSqkRwEq088
6) Aleppo countryside - Kafr Hamra: some of the stolen goods which were seized, along with some of the thieves, by the police station of the city 15/08/2013.
https://youtu.be/7fv1EBtenjc
7) Southern Aleppo countryside - Aziza: 15/08/2013 - violent clashes with Assad’s militia from the front of Aziza village.
https://youtu.be/jTndon5GHx4
https://youtu.be/HvFl8qbsDVA
https://youtu.be/-NrVJN693kk