in Idlib, on Saturday, 24 Dec 2011

Summary and Videos of Events in Idlib, on Saturday, 24 Dec 2011
By SRGC in cooperation with E.N.N https://www.facebook.com/Edlib.News.Network
• Note: The translation in this report is a summary of the Arabic version. The information contained in this translation is taken from the Arabic version – provided in the above link(s), and the translation is summarized in order to avoid repeated phrases and an overabundance of details in terms of the neighborhood and street names.

Martyrs:
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1. Nsoub Al-Sheikh /Iblin. The elderly woman died of a heart attack in terror as the army fired heavily at her residence in the village of Iblin.

2. Shadi Saleh Bazzara /Idlib city. The victim died of his wounds. The victim, Shadi, got married less than a month ago, and he was shot a few days ago by regime forces firing at the funeral procession of the family of Al-Hamdoun.
Here is a video of his family around his body
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm2gP03cSdE
And of his funeral procession
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XkeplxVCY8

3. Abso Badr Marouf /Deir Sunbul in Jabal Al-Zawiya. The 38 years old victim was shot by the troops who are stationed at the village’s school which they turned into barracks that is spreading terror.

4. Muhammad Adnan Deqmaq /Iblin. Muhammad was 17 years old, his dead body was found handcuffed with 2 bullets’ wounds. He was lost when regime forces’ stormed the village a few days ago. Today, his body was found behind a building, the village’s people were not able to find him earlier as the army imposed a curfew since last Sunday.


Arrests:
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• The following were arrested at the checkpoints-barricades in Hzano town:
1. Yusef Abdul-Latif Zkour, 29 years old
2. Samir Ahmed Mansour, 32 years old. This is the 2nd time this university student is arrested.
3. Muhammad Ramez Nadim Hjazi, 25 years old
4. Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Wadoud Hebles, a 20 years old university student.
5. Amer Ahmed Saleh Saleh. This university student has been arrested 3 times during the revolution; he is still detained in the air force [intelligence] branch since more than a month.

• The following are 2 siblings who were arrested for the 2nd time from Ebdita in Jabal Al-Zawiya:
6. Muhammad Hasan Al-Hmoud. He is a 4th year university student studying physics.
7. Khaled Hasan Al-Hmoud. He is 18 years old


Regime forces’ presence and crimes:
• Alaa Al-Din Al-Yusef tells his testimony on the events and massacre west of Jabal Al-Zawiya, 24 Dec 2011
http://youtu.be/F3aOLxIy8J8
He says:
o Mercy upon our martyrs who fell in Syria and in Jabal Al-Zawiya in the massacre of Kafr Uwaid.
o Saturday 17 Dec, the army entered Jabal Al-Zawiya area including kafr Amim town, where the massacre took place.
o Sunday 18 Dec, they [the regime’s army] burned the homes and the motorcycles, targeting the homes of activists, and firing randomly during the day and the night.
o Monday morning, 19 Dec, they committed a massacre, around 80 army personnel of this group defected between the towns of KanSafra and Kafr Uwaid. We heard heavy gunfire and artillery shelling on a specific place where there were no civilians. Then we knew that around 80 army personnel defected and fled to a poultry farm between KanSafra and Kafr Uwaid, so the army shelled this farm, killed them all, and took their corpses to unknown destination. Of course this random shelling of defected army members caused deaths between civilians as well, 10 civilians were killed from the town KanSafra, as the shelling was close by their town.
o Tuesday, 20 Dec, the army surrounded more than a 100 civilians west of the village of Kafr Uwaid in a village called Abu Dmaya, around 12:00 noon, they [civilians] started to shout and cry out for help, they called us telling us they are surrounded. They were civilians...more than a 100, the army surrounded them when it entered the towns of Ayla Rouse, Al-Mouzara, and Kafr Uwaid. They had no safe place to go, they were activist demonstrators. Of course when they pled with us, we had no power or ability other than to plea to the world; I am one of the persons who called Rami Abdul-Rahman, the head of the Syrian Center for Human Rights, and he told me that he called the head of the Arab League but sadly no one responded to our plea. For more than 4 hours, the shelling was continuous on those civilians. We pled through media outlet, we posted pleas on most of the outlets, and in 4 hours...it was possible that they did not have to be martyrs, they could have stayed alive...had anyone responded to us, but sadly no one responded to us, so all of them fell [dead]. We found some of them handcuffed and finished off; after being arrested, some were killed. More than 15 victims were finished off after they were arrested. We brought them back to the village’s mosque in Kafr Uwaid town. The scene was very frightening, and I am one of the witnesses on these massacres.
o 21 Dec, Wednesday, they [the regime’s army] committed a massacre in Jabal Shehshabo in the town of Nmir, they killed more than 15 civilians in a refugee camp; they were refugees fleeing the army, they fled their villages which the army occupied and turned into barracks, these also were shelled by heavy artillery.
o We ask …we plea and ask the whole world to stand with us, we are being killed in cold blood
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• In Jabal Al-Zawiya area, army and security forces installed surveillance cameras in the villages recently occupied by them in Jabal Al-Zawiya, including the villages of; Iblin, Ebdita, KanSafra, Kafr Uwaid, and others, in order to monitor the activists’ movements and arrest them.

• A nighttime demonstration in Ariha was faced with heavy firing from the army’s checkpoints-barricades when they heard the chants, note that electricity is cut off from the city since the morning.

• In Al-Habit town, the checkpoint-barricade of Kafr Ayn fired at residents injuring 2 people, one of the 2 injuries is critical.

• A powerful explosion shook the city of Idlib

• Security vehicles and 3 army tanks were spotted on Idlib-Aleppo highway, coming from Saraqeb and stationed at the military housing building west of Sirmin town.

• Ayn Al-Baida village in Jesr Al-Shoghour – close by the Turkish borders
The home of locals, who were forces to flee and become refugees, are being used as military barracks, 22 Dec 2011
http://youtu.be/x-FFw5p1SvU
Regime forces storming the village with armored vehicles, 22 Dec 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwwkMyYbDo&feature=youtu.be
Regime forces firing heavily in the village, 22 Dec 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVPrcU-2Cp4&feature=youtu.be

• Khan Sheikhoun town
The town was shelled yesterday 23 Dec 2011 by BMP vehicles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7lFKqh7D8M&feature=youtu.be
Today the town was shelled again while electricity was cut off too
http://youtu.be/7zQfDzcrnaI

• The body of Child, Mahmoud Abdul-Muein Al-Thekra, 12 years old – Maarat Al-Numan, died of his wounds; the boy was wounded in the head Thursday by regime forces while playing in front of his home.
• From Taftanaz town we got confirmed reports with the following: In the 14th day of the Strike for Dignity, students and employees did not go to school nor to work, stores were closed, and there were no transportations.
• Videos of the strike in the towns of:
o Binnish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6_UD7joB74&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbMIvqT_CQ&feature=youtu.be
o Sirmin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGsGmMbBAA8&feature=youtu.be
o Kafr Urouq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE8wXFiBWMU&feature=youtu.be


Demonstrations:
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• We got confirmed reports of demonstrations which were held in towns of; MaarMesrin, Kafr Yahmoul, Kelli, Al-Berseh, Ariha, Haas, Zredna, Idlib city, Binnish, Sirmin, Hzano, Taftanaz, Al-Salhiya, Baboulin, Tal Awar village in Jesr Al-Shoghour, and Al-Kastan.

• Women and men, children and elderly, came out demanding international protection, the execution of Bashar Al-Assad and beseeching God for help with “God, we have no one else to turn to”. They also expressed disbelieve of the regime’s story on the 2 explosions in Damascus, and condemned the Arab League and its protocol signed with the Syrian regime considering it a death sentence for the defenseless Syrian people.

• Albums of demonstrations’ pictures in the towns of:
o Idlib city – 23 Dec 2011
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.333371076673054.85974.245325925477570&type=1
o Taftanaz – 23 Dec 2011
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.332752403401588.85835.245325925477570&type=1
o Binnish – 23 Dec 2011
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.332885193388309.85864.245325925477570&type=1
o Maarat Al-Numan – 23 Dec 2011
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.333023446707817.85894.245325925477570&type=1
• Demonstrations videos from the towns of:
o Sirmin
In this nighttime demonstration, people are beseeching God to give them victory as they have no one else to turn to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3xX4ZRR8Q&feature=youtu.be
o Haas – a female demonstration under the rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FALqmYUvuhg