At 2.30 in the morning of the 25th July, 2015, a mortar struck the top floor of the home of Mohammed Fala Al-Hayek. Coming from the North East it pass through the home and exited to the South West. The authorities identified it as a 120mm mortar, but it did not explode, instead splitting it into three pieces. One staying in the home, one spinning off 100 metres to the south west and one flying west to land at a school 100 metres away. The building’s masonry was also flung far and wide and the owner of the home is adamant that had anyone been present in the roof top room at the time there would have been severe casualties.
The GPS is 32.63788, 35.99086.
The home is about 3.5 km from the Syrian border.
Corroboratory sources
1. http://goo.gl/ZtvMbX
2. http://goo.gl/FNEYIX
3. http://factjo.com/pages/newsdetails.aspx?id=85020
The exterior damage to Mohammed Fala Al-Hayek’s house
Mohammed Fala Al-Hayek points in the direction from which the mortar ricocheted out of the house towards a nearby school
Mohammed Fala Al-Hayek’s house – an outside view. The damage is now largely repaired.
Shrapnel fragments photographed at the time by Mohammed Fala Al-Hayek
More shrapnel from the round that struck Mohammed Fala Al-Hayek’s home.
Mohammed Fala Al-Hayek outside his house.
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