Latakia province. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a violent explosion was heard in the coastal city of Latakia area, the smoke was seen rising from the place of the explosion, which is located in al-Hamam Square on the northeastern outskirts of Latakia, where the explosion was caused by an explosive device in a car which caused damage, and at least five people have been injured and another one died, this explosion comes in conjunction with the resentment that prevails areas of the regime forces over simultaneous and successive crises, where the Syrian Observatory published several days a report about the situation, its says: night of the people is colder than their day, and all of them have enough cold to freeze the life cycle, “the people look at with a confusion, break, and disappointed in their eyes looking at one another on queues”, in these words; residents explained to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights the situation, where at a time when the regime imposed its control over more than 60% of the Syrian territory the government of the regime has put itself in a great dilemma, this impasse, which it did not try to show to the media but deliberately beautified and hid it, through its media tools which have always devoted themselves to the same service in all military, media, and humanitarian fields, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of the popular discontent storm which is escalating rapidly in regime forces’-controlled areas among the residents, due to the continued clamping down on the population and the continued suffering in order to earn a living and the essentials of life, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the increase of criticism day after day, along with the spread of criticism among journalists, artists, intellectuals, social activists and citizens, where cynical journalists spoke of regime’s demands for Syrian citizens to return to “the bosom of the homeland” wondering about any return must be talked about, back to gas queues, fuel queues, the cut electricity, The high prices, or the lack of dignity that has been absent along with the absence of bread and severe shortages of children food, which has been pushing people for long days to stand in queues in order to obtain any material available from gas, fuel, or bread.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the rise in demands of the citizens and social parties, calling for improving the living conditions and to make a breakthrough in the lives of residents among whom the resentment began to grow greatly, until they demanded the resignation of regime’s government led by Imad Khamis, who was formerly the minister of electricity prior to his inauguration as prime minister, while the Syrian observatory documented the death of a girl in Aleppo city due to the deterioration of her health, as a result of the lack of food and heating means and because of the severe humanitarian conditions in regime forces’-controlled areas, in which the basic materials for life and living are absent, she is the second child to die as a result of the conditions described in the above mentioned areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 15th of January 2018 that regime forces’-controlled areas continue to witness discontent, in a loud response by the population to the unresolved suffocating crisis, as the government of the regime did not give it an attention, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored within the last 24 hours that an old man attempted to commit suicide in Hama city, where he threw himself in Orontes river in Om al-Hasan area in Hama city which injured him seriously. Residents and people close to the person confirmed that his attempt to commit suicide was because he was not able to make a living, and the Syrian Observatory published 24 hours ago that resentment increases among residents of the areas which are controlled by the regime forces, which are more than 60% of the Syrian territory, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has been monitoring for days a state of great discontent; in the wake of the crisis of domestic heating and gas materials in regime forces’-controlled areas, and at a time when the cold winter storm the Syrian territory; the resentment increases with every delay by the regime’s authorities and government in resolving the outstanding issues related to the livelihood of citizens, who showed their deep resentment at the indifference shown by regime’s authorities, and the Syrian Observatory monitoring the resentment turning into a case of clear expression and in a direct manner, where a video appeared of a former fighter in the regime forces who suffered a previous injury during his service in the ranks of the regime for nearly 5 years, he was calling for the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad from the middle of Tartous city, which is the only province in which the regime remained in control most of the years since the start of the Syrian revolution, while others within regime forces’-controlled areas expressed fears of the regime avenging its supporters rather than finding comprehensive solutions to end the crisis that is taking place in its controlled areas in the Syrian territory.

This state of discontent witnessed the solidarity of artists, intellectuals, and various parties, who demanded the head of the regime and the government to intervene immediately, to solve the crisis plaguing the population, while a medical worker in regime forces’-controlled areas threatened with suicide on the 18th of January 2019; if the head of the Syrian regime and the government did not intervene and were unable to resolve the outstanding crisis and provide heating, fuel, and household gas to the population, and making a significant difference in the lives of the people, who are waiting in queues in front of domestic gas cylinder sales centers, where the medical worker vowed to carry out the suicide because of “the general situation and not on the basis of personal status,” while the people are still in a state of growing resentment, amid ambiguity surrounding the nature of the coming days and whether the authorities of the regime are able to make any change in the people’s lives, and the residents said to the Syrian Observatory that the regime “is working to fabricate crises through merchants of war to achieve greater profit and sell at double prices, where after they looted everything; there is nothing left for them to steal except the salaries of the employees and the wages of the workers to satisfy their greed, and the people added: “we saw how even the senior officials in regime’s authority could not stop the looting, and the fate of those who criticized was silencing in different ways, and today we see this crisis is taking place away of the attention of the officials who have enough of everything.”