The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Warplanes raid 4 cities and towns in the Eastern Ghouta after a massacre of about 40 casualties and wounded

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: explosions were heard in the Eastern Ghouta, caused by shelling by warplanes on areas in Jesrin and Saqba, in conjunction with raids on areas in Harasta and Madyara, which caused material damage but no information about casualties yet, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on hours ago that the helicopter carrying out a massacre and killing 9 citizens in Mesraba town which is controlled by Jaysh al-Islam, they are 4 children, 3 women and 2 men, in addition to injuring about 29 others with varying severity, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation.

And with the death of more civilians in the Eastern Ghouta it rose to 957 the number of Syrian civilians whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory in the Eastern Ghouta, including 199 children and 131 women, who have been killed by the aerial, rocket and artillery shelling on the cities and towns of Douma, Harasta, Arbin, Zamalka, Hamouriyah, Jesrin, Kafr Batna, Hazza, Ash’ari, Nashabiyah, Aftries, Otaya, Al-Shifonyyah, Al-Marj area, Mesraba, Madyara, Beit Sawa, and other areas in the besieged Ghouta of Damascus, and the shelling during this period which completed 2 weeks since it started, resulted in the injury of more than 4320 citizens including hundreds of children and citizen women with varying severity, some of them have permanent disabilities, while the bodies of tens of citizens are still under the rubble of destruction caused by the aerial, rocket and artillery shelling by the regime forces on the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and the total death toll documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, includes 425 casualties including 58 children and 48 women who were killed and documented by the SOHR after the resolution of the UNSC, which failed again to stop the killing of the people of the Eastern Ghouta, and the shelling resulted in the fall of hundreds of wounded, where the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries, amid the tragic humanitarian situation of the people of Ghouta, who intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that they do not leave the shelters for fear of the intensive shelling, amid inability of the medical staff to relieve all medical cases.