The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

17 children and a woman were killed and tens of others were injured in a massacre after targeting a shelter under a school in Arbin city in the Eastern Ghouta

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: warplanes continue to target the Eastern Ghouta, where warplanes believed to Russian targeted a shelter under a school in Arbin city in the Eastern Ghouta, the missile shelling which caused a massive destruction and a massacre of 17 citizens, they are: 15 children and 2 women in addition to the injury of about 52 others, while it rose to 4, the number of people killed as a result of bombardment by warplanes on Harasta city, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, and because of the presence of missing persons under the ruble of destruction whose fate is not known yet.

And with the death of more civilians it rose to 1454, the number of the Syrian civilians whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory in the Eastern Ghouta, including 297 children and 183 women, who have been killed since the 18th of February 2018, 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, resulted in the injury of more than 5330 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 922 casualties including 156 children and 100 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.