Shells continue targeting the city of Damascus and its suburbs
The targeting is still ongoing since today morning on the capital Damascus and areas in the outskirts and suburbs by rocket shelling, where it rose to more than 22, the number of shells that targeted Al-Assad district, while renewed shells targeted areas in Jermana district, and shells also fell on Sheikh Saad area in Al-Mazza, while other shells fell on areas near Jisr Al-Ra’es in Al-Baramka and places in the area of Al-Qasa’, in conjunction with taregtinjg Al-Dawila and Aish Al-Warwar by several shells, causing injuries.
The SOHR published today the shells are continuing to target in the middle of the capital Damascus and other areas in its vicinity as well as places in its nearby districts, controlled by the regime forces, where shells fell successively on areas in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Raslan, Bab Touma, Al-Qaymariya, the Old Damascus, Baghdad Street, the Governorate Square, Sabaa Bahrat, Jaramana, Al-Wafedin Camp and Dahiyat al-Assad, which resulted in the fall of wounded and caused material damage to the property of the citizens, while the SOHR published this morning, that the rocket shelling is continuing on areas in the middle of Damascus and other places in its outskirts and districts, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today morning the 24th of February 2018, the fall of shells on areas in Baghdad Street and the squares of the governorate and Sabaa Bahrat in the middle of Damascus, which caused further material damage, and confirmed information about the fall of injuries.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented yesterday the death of 2 persons (a doctor and a child), and the injury of 58 others with varying severity, as a result of the targeting to Rukn Al-Din neighborhood and other areas in the middle of the capital and in its districts, raising to 121 persons at least including 18 children and 14 citizen women, who were killed as a result of the fall of these shells since the beginning of escalation on the capital Damascus and its suburbs on the 16th of November, and the SOHR documented the injury of more than 610 persons who were injured in these daily targeting during 3 consecutive months, including tens of children and citizen women, some of whom have seriously injured and have permanent disability, and the SOHR also monitored the continuation of the poor health condition of some of the injured people, which may raise the death toll.