North Press monitors killing, injury of 503 people in February in Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – The Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press released on Wednesday its report for February, documenting the killing and injury of 503 people by different parties in the conflict across Syria with a 32 percent decline in human rights violations.
The report detected that 184 people died and 160 were injured illegally in various ways, most concentrated in Homs and its countryside due to attacks by Islamic State (ISIS) against civilians, followed by Deir ez-Zor and Aleppo.
The number of victims of war remnants throughout Syria reached 78 people. Military casualties reached 95 dead and 61 injured.
Parties to the conflict exchanged a total of 76 attacks in different areas. The report recorded 26 Turkish attacks, mostly centered in the town of Ain Issa north of Raqqa in addition to three attacks conducted by Israel.
The Department registered 80 arrest cases in February in several areas in Syria.
A total of 11.587 people were killed and injured due to the February 6 devastating earthquake that hit Syria, of which 4.182 were dead and 7.405 injured. It also completely destroyed 1.288 buildings and houses, and caused partial collapse of more than 3.100, and resulted in severe cracks and damages to over 16.321 buildings.
The Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press recorded the displacement of more than 5 million people, the destruction of thousands of houses, and the declaration of four cities – Aleppo, Hama, Latakia, and Idlib – as disaster zones.