Continued use of nighttime and early morning assaults on rural areas has led to the death of at least one man in Ibdeeta village, Idlib province. In an early morning attack, Abdo Ahmed Najjar who was apparently just standing next to his house when the assault took place, was gunned down by security forces. It cannot be confirmed at this time if there were any other casualties within the village itself. Two hours before this attack occurred, heavy gunfire could be heard about 1.5 kilometers away from the village. Security forces tend to shoot towards villages at random in the early morning to keep residents from leaving their homes to attend morning prayers and protest afterward. Mr. Najjar was buried this morning. In what has become an all too common tactic, security forces are now consistently using a scorched earth policy of collective punishment against whole provinces the regime deems disloyal to the ruling Assad family and the Baath Party.
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