SYRIA :BETWEEN 1,000 AND 4,500 PEOPLE KILLED IN OCTOBER,2016

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About 1350 civilians between 4500 were killed in October 2016

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented death of 4527 persons in the month of October 2016. The casualties are as follows:

Civilian casualties: 1343 civilians, including 317 children under the age of eighteen, and 182 female citizens over the age of 18, they were killed as follows:

549 citizens including 149 children and 90 citizen women killed in raids by Russian and Syrian warplanes’ bombing and helicopters’ barrel bombs, 191 people including 32 children and 24 citizen women were killed in the shelling by rocket and artillery shells, missiles believed to be ground-to-ground and sniper fire and targeting by the regime forces, 30 persons including a woman were killed under torture in Syrian security prisons, 196 persons including 58 children and 26 citizen women were killed in the fall of shells and targeting by the rebel and Islamic Factions and the “Islamic State” organization, and 59 including 16  children and 9 women were killed in shelling by Turkish warplanes, 6 including 1 child were killed by the gunshots of the Turkish border guards, 15 persons including a child were executed by the “Islamic State” organization, 38  including 5 children and 3 women were killed in bombing by warplanes of the international coalition, 76 people including 8 children and 8  citizen women were killed in the explosions of booby trapped vehicles and explosive belts detonation, 3 children and a man died due to poor health conditions and the bad living conditions and the lack of medication, 1 person was killed by the Syrian Democratic Forces, and 173 including 44 children and 22 citizen women were killed in different circumstances like unidentified gunmen, explosions, landmines, sniper fire and unknown circumstances.

Syrian nationality fighters from the rebel and Islamic fighters and The Syria Democratic Forces and other Movements and organizations: 690

Defected soldiers and officers: 6

The regime forces: 452

Members from Popular Committees, NDF and militiamen loyal to the regime of Syrian nationality: 429

Militiamen from the Lebanese Hezbollah: 33

Non-Syrian Pro-regime mostly Shia militiamen: 56

Unidentified casualties: 14

Fighters from the rebel and Islamic factions, the “Islamic State”, Fath al-Sham Front, Jaish al-Mohajereen and al-Ansar and the Islamic Turkistan Party of non-Syrian nationalities: 1024

We in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights believe that the number of casualties in the ranks of the rebel and Islamic factions and the “Islamic State” organization is 900 more than the number documented we were able to document, because of the extreme secrecy by the targeted parties about their death toll.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights renews its call to all international sides -despite the horrifying silence by the international community- to work more seriously for immediate stop of the Syrian people’s blood shedding and to put more pressure on the countries members of the members of the UN Security Council so these war crimes and the crimes against humanity are handled by the International Criminal Court. We in the Syrian Observatory demand the punishment of all perpetrators, instigators, collaborators and all individuals and sides who used the Syrian blood as a political card and as means to carry out their personal agendas, as well as those who transformed a revolution for dignity to a sectarian and ethnic civil war.

The agency also disclosed that at least 10,000 people have been killed since hostilities started by Russian war plane but did not state whether all of this were men in uniform who died in combat or were civilians who got caught up in the cross fire