The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

27 casualties and tens of injuries in a massacre by warplanes believed to be Russian targeted Douma with more than 40 airstrikes

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the warplanes that believed to be Russian continue to intensively target Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta, where it rose to about 40, the number of raids that targeted the city in 2 hours, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored these intensive raids causing a massacre which killed and wounded tens of people, where the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 27 persons at least including 5 children at least, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, also there are people trapped under the rubble, also the regime forces targeted by rocket shells areas in Douma extensively.

The Syrian Observatory published today morning, Friday, the 6th of April 2018 that Douma city, the last area remaining out the regime’s control in the Eastern Ghouta, witnesses continuation of the suspension of transferring the displaced people from Douma to the Syrian North, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that this suspension is coincided with the continuation of the negotiations between the Russian side and Jaysh Al-Islam, in order to reach a new agreement leads to a “new settlement” about Douma, the Eastern Qalamoun, the southern Rif Dimashq and the south of Damascus, where sources confirmed to the SOHR that a paper of proposals was taken to the Kremlin by Jaysh Al-Islam, included several points most notably is the remaining of Jaysh Al-Islam in Douma with its arm, without Russian acceptance until now, where it is supposed that the Russians will express their acceptance or rejection to these proposals tomorrow, Saturday, and the sources confirmed to the SOHR that in the case of the Russian rejection and the breakdown of the negotiations between the both parties, it is expected that Douma will witness a military operation.