The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Despite Putin’s truce and UNSC resolution, death toll increases to more than 600 including 235 children and women in the aerial and ground shelling during 11 days

67 casualties at least including more than 30 children and women since the resolution of the Security Council

The number of casualties continues to rise in the Eastern Ghouta as a result of continuous shelling, as well as recovering more corpses from under rubbles caused by the bloody week in the besieged Ghouta, where the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 8 citizens including a child on Wednesday outside of the truce time, and the casualties are 3 citizens were killed in bombardment by warplanes before the time of the truce today, Wednesday, morning, and the rest of them were killed after the time of the truce, and they are a member of the civil defense who was killed in air raids on Otaya, and 3 citizens were killed in 2 raids by warplanes on areas in Beit Sawa, and a child was killed in bombardment by warplanes on areas in Harasta city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also documented the death of 5 persons affected by injuries they had in aerial bombardment on Douma city, on last Thursday, Saturday, and Monday.

The warplanes also carried out 4 raids targeting areas in al-Shifonyyah town, while the warplanes targeted areas in Douma city which injured 7 citizens, also 10 citizens were injured in raids by warplanes on Beit Sawa town, while the regime forces launched 15 missiles at least on areas in Harasta city, in conjunction with launching 5 shells on areas in Douma city, while the warplanes targeted areas in Zamalka city and places in Hosh Al-Dawahra town, and other areas in Arbin city, while the warplanes carried out about 30 raids on Harasta city, which caused more destruction in the property of citizens and the infrastructure.

Raising to 601 citizens including 147 children and 88 women, the number of the civilian casualties who have been killed by the aerial, rocket and artillery shelling and bombardment by explosive barrels on the Eastern Ghouta, since Sunday evening the 18th of February 2018, among them there are 67 casualties including 19 children and 12 women were killed after the resolution of the UN Security Council, and the casualties are: 8 citizens including a child and a member of the Civil Defense were killed in bombardment by warplanes on Beit Sawa, Harasta, Otaya and Douma outside the time of the truce, 7 citizens including 2 children and a woman who were killed yesterday Tuesday, in aerial and artillery shelling on Mesraba, Jesrin and Douma; and they are the people who were killed during the first 2 days of Putin’s “truce”, 34 citizens including 11 children and 7 women who were killed on Monday in the aerial and rocket shelling on Douma and Harasta and the area between Mesraba and Beit Sawa, 18 citizens including 5 children under the age of eighteen and 4 women were killed Sunday, in shelling by the regime forces and bombardment by warplanes on areas in Douma, al-Shifonyyah, Saqba, Beit Sawa, Hammuriyyeh and al-Rihan, and 53 citizens including 8 children and 9 women were killed on Saturday by bombardment by warplanes on Harasta, Douma, Zamalka, Beit Sawa and Al-Shifonyyah, 43 citizens including 18 children and 4 women were killed on Friday, 74 citizens including 9 children and 8 citizen women who were killed on Thursday in bombardment by warplanes on areas in Mesraba and Aftries towns and Douma and Arbin cities, 87 citizens including 21 children and 12 women, were killed on Wednesday in bombardment by helicopters by explosive barrels on Kafr Batna town and airstrikes on Jesrin town and raids on Saqba, 133 citizens including 33 children and 17 women were killed on Tuesday, in the shelling on the areas of Nashabiyah, Otaya, Arbin, Zamalka Mesraba, Hamuriya, Saqba and Ash’ari, 127 citizens including 34 children and 23 women were killed on Monday, in the aerial and ground bombardment on Hamuriya, Beit Sawa and Saqba, Douma , Mesraba, Otaya, Nashabiyah, Zamalka, Aftries, KafrBatna, Al-Shifonyyah and Jesrin, 17 citizens including 5 children and 3 women were killed on the evening of Sunday, while the aerial and artillery shelling resulted in the fall of hundreds of injuries, some of them are still in serious cases, which may raise the death toll.