ALBAWABA - Civilian death toll in the ongoing clashes and unrest in the Syrian coastal areas and the Latakia Mountains has jumped to over 900 people, including women and children, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Monday.
SOHR confirmed that the crimes are being committed based on sectarian as the security forces, the Ministry of Defense personnel and its allied forces, are targeting Alawites and committing war crimes and human rights violations against them, amid the absence of a legal deterrent to them.
The total number of civilians who were killed in the past 72 hours reached 973, including women and children.
Electricity and drinking water were cut off in large areas in the Latakia countryside for the second day in a row, which led to the interruption of services, especially communications, in some areas.
SOHR further noted that 39 massacres were committed since the escalation, sparked by attacks by Alawite militants on March 6 against forces of the Syrian Interior and Defense Ministries, fueling brutal killings, field executions, and ethnic cleansing operations beginning on March 7.
Syrian Observatory said it reported new massacres in the Quneitra neighborhood in Tartous, and in the city of Baniyas, the Da’tour neighborhood in Latakia, in addition to the villages of Ramliya and Rasafa in the Masyaf countryside.
This comes amid continued Israeli forces' incursion into Majdolia town in the central Al-Qunaitrah countryside where it placed a military checkpoint. Nonetheless, Israeli soldiers also stormed Jamleh village in Yarmouk Basin for the second time in 24 hours.
