The regime forces fire artillery and rocket shells on several towns and cities in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus witnessed renewed targeting to areas there by the regime forces by artillery and rocket shells, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces targeted areas in Ein Tarma and Kafr Batna towns in conjunction with areas in Douma and Arbin cities, which caused material damage, without information about casualties.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the death toll has increased to 216 civilians in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, including 51 children and 26 women over the age of eighteen and 4 members of the Civil Defense, the number of people whose death has been documented since the 14th of November 2017, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 129 citizens including 24 children and 15 citizen women by the raids carried out by the warplanes on the cities and towns of Douma, Harasta, Madyara, Hamuriya, Arbin, Ein Tarma, and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta, while the SOHR documented the death of 87 citizens including 27 children and 11 citizen women due to shelling by artillery, mortar and tanks, as well as shelling by missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, on the cities and the towns of Kafr Batna, Zamalka, Ein Tarma, Douma, Arbin, Harasta, Jesrin, Saqba, Beit Sawa, Al-Nashabiyah, Beit Nayem, and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta, and this shelling which has been continuing for a month resulted in the injury of hundreds of citizens, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the injury of about 740 persons including tens of children and citizen women, some of whom have amputated limbs and permanent disabilities, while the others are still suffering serious wounds suffering from the lack of the medical staff and the shortage of medicine.