War in Syria has claimed lives of more than half million Syrians

DAMASCUS, Jan. 02 (YPA) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published a conflicting and shocking tally of the number of victims of the conflict in Syria from 2011 until the end of 2024.

The Syrian Observatory stated that it documented the killing of more than 528,000 people during the ongoing conflict in the country since 2011.

The number includes thousands of dead whose deaths were recently confirmed after arriving at the basements of detention centers, prisons, and mass graves in Syria following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

According to the Observatory, more than 6,700 people were killed, more than half of them civilians, in Syria in the year 2024.

It is worth noting that the Syrian Observatory’s new tally was inconsistent with the tally it published on March 16, 2023.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that it documented, by names, from the beginning of the conflict in 2011 until the end of the year 2022, the killing of more than half a million people, out of more than 600,000 confirmed dead over a period of 12 years.

On March 16 last year, the Observatory stated that it had documented the killing of 507,567 people since the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011, out of at least 617,910 whose deaths the Syrian Observatory confirmed over a period of 13 years.

YPA