United Nations S/2012/622

Security Council Distr.: General 10 December 2012

Original: English

Identical letters dated 10 August 2012 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

Upon instructions from my Government, and following my letters dated 16 to 20 and 23 to 25 April, 7, 11, 14 to 16, 18, 21, 24, 29 and 31 May, 1, 4, 6, 7, 11, 19, 20, 25, 27 and 28 June, 2, 3, 9, 11, 13, 16, 17 and 24 July, and 1, 2, 8 and 10 August 2012, I have the honour to transmit herewith a detailed list of violations of cessation of violence that were committed by armed groups in from Sunday evening, 29 July 2012 until Monday evening, 30 July 2012 (see annex). It would be highly appreciated if the present letter and its annex could be circulated as a document of the Security Council.

(Signed) Bashar Ja’afari Ambassador Permanent Representative

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Annex to the identical letters dated 10 August 2012 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

[Original: Arabic]

List of attacks and violations carried out by the armed terrorist groups in the evening of 29 July and on Monday, 30 July 2012

No. Place Time Act carried out by armed terrorist group Outcome

1. Lebanese border 2230 Border guards in the villages of Halat, – Tahunah, Idlin and Jisr Qammar came under gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire from the Lebanese villages of Nurah and Dababiyah. The fire was intended to cover infiltration attempts by armed terrorist groups. 2. 0030 Border guards in the municipality of – Jusiyah came under fire from Lebanese territory. 3. 0330 An attempt was made to infiltrate from – Lebanon into Syria, and border guards in Tall Kalakh came under fire. 4. 0430 An attempt was made to infiltrate from – Lebanon into Syria in the areas around the Nass guard post and Jurah in Fadiliyah. 5. Jordanian border 2300 An attempt was made to infiltrate from – Jordan into Syria, and border guards at the Tall Shihab guard post came under fire. 6. and the 2230 Border guards in the Assal al-Ward area A border guard forces vehicle was surrounding rural came under fire. set on fire. areas 7. 0030 The car of a civilian pilot, Firas Ibrahim The pilot was killed and his driver Safi, came under fire at the fifth bridge on was wounded. the airport road. 8. 0300 Law enforcement personnel in Siqba came Major Nawaf Mahfud was killed. under intermittent fire. 9. 0600 Law enforcement personnel in Qadam Sergeant Ghaith Khudrah was came under fire. killed. 10. 0700 Brigadier Husain Jum‘ah and Colonel – Muhammad Abbas were abducted in the Judaydat Artuz area.

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11. 0730 A law enforcement vehicle was ambushed Two officers were wounded and as it was passing through the area. two patrol cars were damaged. 12. 0800 Law enforcement personnel in Qadam Staff Sergeant Ahmad Duyub was came under fire. killed. 13. 1300 Law enforcement personnel in Harasta Sergeant Ali Yunus was killed. came under fire. 14. 1500 The home of a soldier killed in action, The house was looted. First Lieutenant Usamah al-Misri, which is near the military construction projects scientific research department was stormed. 15. 1500 Law enforcement personnel in Asbaynah Conscript Hasan al-Fanus was came under fire. killed. 16. – Six unidentified bodies were found in – Adra city centre, Ayn Tarma and Sabburah. 17. – A member of the Rif Dimashq His fate is unknown. Governorate Council, Khalid Muhammad al-Shamali, was abducted in the Khan al-Shaykh area. 18. – A civilian, Hasan Muhammad Rida, was His fate is unknown. abducted in the town of . 19. – The body of a civilian, Bassam Kawi, was His history is unknown. found in the town of Hamah. 20. Dar‘a and the 2000 Law enforcement personnel in Inkhil – surrounding rural came under fire. areas 21. 2015 Law enforcement personnel in the vicinity One officer was wounded. of the Nu‘aymah bridge came under fire. 22. 2200 Law enforcement personnel in Sayda Two officers were wounded. came under fire. 23. 2230 Border guards at the Barudah guard post Conscript Muhammad al-Hamidi came under fire. was killed. 24. 1000 Law enforcement personnel in the The following were killed: First displaced persons camp came under fire. Lieutenant Sami al-Jadari, Staff Sergeant Sanan Khazzamah, Staff Sergeant Suhail Mallak, and Conscripts Muhammad Assaf, Hasan Nur and Muhannad Khalifah. Twenty men were wounded, including a captain.

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No. Place Time Act carried out by armed terrorist group Outcome

25. 1130 A law enforcement patrol transporting Four officers were killed. detainees was ambushed in the vicinity of Khirbat Ghazzalah. 26. 1130 A law enforcement patrol assigned to One officer was wounded and a guard the oil pipeline between Busr car was damaged. al-Harir and Nahitah came under fire. 27. 1230 Law enforcement personnel in Izra‘ came Conscript Muhammad under fire. Abdulrazzaq was killed and another officer was wounded. 28. 1430 An armed terrorist group stopped a United A liaison officer, Lieutenant Ali Nations patrol 500 m before the Junub Ibrahim, was abducted. Hayt area. 29. 1800 The house in the Sabil quarter of a The house was looted. member of the People’s Assembly, Walid al-Zu‘bi, was stormed. 30. 1830 A vehicle, licence plate No. 8703841, that Conscript Ahmad Shaykhu was was transporting law enforcement killed. personnel, came under fire in Shaykh Miskin. 31. – The body of a civilian, Muhammad – al-Husain al-Muhammad, was found in the town of Shaykh Miskin. 32. 1830 Law enforcement personnel in Nawa A lieutenant and another man were came under fire. wounded. 33. Homs and the 0200 Law enforcement personnel came under – surrounding rural intermittent fire in Qarabis, Qusur, Karm areas Shamsham, Cairo Street, Bab Tadmur, Bab al-Siba‘, Wadi Sayih, Talbisah, Rastan and the village of Hisn. 34. 0600 Law enforcement personnel in Qarabis Ten officers were wounded. came under fire. 35. 0600 Law enforcement personnel came under – intermittent fire in Qusur, Karm Shamsham, the Education Directorate, Wadi al-Sayih and Sultaniyah. 36. 0600 Law enforcement personnel in Bab Conscript Amjad Hawwash was al-Siba‘ came under fire. killed and another officer was wounded.

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37. 0630 Law enforcement personnel in Talbisah Police officer Ahmad Sulayman came under gun and rocket-propelled was killed, and seven men, grenade fire. including three officers, were wounded. 38. 1500 Law enforcement personnel north of the Conscript Usamah al-Turki was hospital bridge in Qusayr came under fire. killed. 39. Hama and the 2200 Law enforcement personnel came under Two officers were wounded. surrounding rural fire in the villages of Jawsah and areas Uwaynah in Ghab. 40. – The body of a civilian, Muhammad Sa‘id – al-Abbud, was found in the Sabil quarter. 41. – The car of Anwar Abid Hasan was stolen – in Hama. The car of Fatim Ulaywi al-Ahmad was stolen in Salamiyah. 42. – A civilian, Mahir al-Shaykh Ali, was – abducted in the town of Shin, and his car was stolen. 43. – The car of Husain Abdulrahman Qasim – and a Government truck were stolen in the Masafi quarter. 44. 1045 The Uqayribat subdistrict building and An officer was killed and the police station personnel came under fire, subdistrict building and police and law enforcement patrols were station were destroyed and looted. ambushed as they attempted to provide assistance. 45. 1215 An explosive device was detonated near Four officers were wounded. the Surayhin bridge, targeting a police patrol. 46. 1545 A vehicle transporting border guard A colonel was wounded. personnel in the Ithriya-Salamiyah area was ambushed. 47. 1900 A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a One officer was wounded. law enforcement forces armoured vehicle in Harbinafsah. 48. – First Lieutenant Ali Yunus Abbas was – abducted on the Hama-Homs road. 49. – A gas oil tanker was stolen from its driver – on the Salamiyah-Raqqah road.

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No. Place Time Act carried out by armed terrorist group Outcome

50. – A civilian, Nidal Khalid Suwayd, was – abducted from the town of Kurnaz. 51. Aleppo and the 2000 The oil factory in the Leramon area was The factory was destroyed and its surrounding rural stormed. contents were looted. areas 52. 2400 An attempt was made to manufacture an The device exploded, killing the explosive device in a building in Dayr terrorists at the site. Hafir. 53. 0600 The tractor workshop in the Safirah area Two vehicles were stolen. was stormed. 54. 0600 Law enforcement personnel in the Salah Sixteen officers were killed and al-Din quarter came under fire from all 46 officers were wounded. A law types of weapon, including machine guns, enforcement forces armoured car sniper rifles and rocket-propelled was wrecked. grenades, and peaceful citizens were terrorized. 55. – The police station in Hannanu was – attacked, and there was an armed clash that lasted for two hours. 56. 0800 The office of the Ahl al-Bayt Cultural The contents of the office were House in the subdistrict of Huraytan was stolen, and the terrorists took up a stormed. position in the building. 57. 1000 A booby-trapped car was detonated in the A civilian was injured and nearby village of Hadiyah on the Zarbah-Is road. houses and vehicles were damaged. 58. 1500 The Hajib subdistrict building was – stormed and captured. 59. Idlib and the 0930 An explosive device targeting a border Four officers were wounded and a surrounding rural guard patrol exploded in the Tall patrol car was heavily damaged. areas al-Dhahab area of Jisr al-Shughur. 60. Dayr al-Zawr 1900 A law enforcement forces patrol was A vehicle was stolen and the attacked in the Dabbat Astan area. following men were abducted: First Lieutenant Ubaydah al-Misri, Staff Sergeant Mahmud Muhammad, Corporal Ahmad Daghim, Conscript Ibrahim al-Salih and Conscript Mahmud Yunus. 61. 1900 Conscript Khalid Mu‘adh came under fire The conscript was wounded. in Abu Kamal.

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62. 1930 An attempt was made to abduct Corporal Conscript Nihad al-Asi was killed, Fayiz Sabtah and Conscript Nihad al-Asi. and Corporal Fayiz Sabtah was When the latter attempted to flee from his abducted. abductors they opened fire on him. 63. 2000 Law enforcement personnel in Dayr Staff Sergeant Yusuf Nadirah was al-Zawr came under fire. killed. 64. 0800 An explosive device was detonated and The driver was wounded and the rocket-propelled grenades were fired at an truck was heavily damaged. Engineers Department Mercedes dump truck that was travelling along the Dayr al-Zawr road. 65. 1330 A civilian, Abdulmuhsin Mas‘ud, A car, licence plate No. 480086, accompanied by engineer Assad Yusuf, belonging to the oil pumping was stopped on the Hasakah-Hawl station in the village of Umm subdistrict road. al-Rus, was taken from them by force of arms. 66. Raqqah 1500 There was a clash with border guards in Two officers were killed, five the village of Kunaytirah. were wounded and one was abducted. 67. Ladhiqiyah 0010 A dynamite charge exploded in the Azzah There were no injuries. quarter in the city of Jablah. 68. 0100 Law enforcement checkpoints on the An Audi vehicle, licence plate perimeter of the Palestine Refugee Camp No. 596667 (Damascus), was hit. came under fire. The driver, a Turkish physician, Salih Tamim Bashtash (born 1977), who was married to a Syrian citizen, Basimah Mahmud Uthman, was killed. 69. 1145 Two unidentified bodies were found at the – Charbel Station in the vicinity of the textile factory. 70. 1210 The road connecting Balluran and Bayt – Awwan in the Qastal Ma‘af subdistrict was blocked.

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