The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More casualties raise the death toll to 4 at least in the renewed raids on the eastern Ghouta

Rif Dimashq province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: it rose to 4 at least including a citizen woman, the number of people who were killed and documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in 9 raids targeted Arbin city in the Eastern Ghouta, which is controlled by Rahman Corps, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, where this round of raids is the third that target Arbin city and its outskirts since the start of the truce at the noon on the 22nd of July 2017, and warplanes targeted at sundown on the 24th of July Arbin city and its outskirts by 6 raids, where every raid the warplanes launched two rockets which in injured 6 people, while a warplane -whose identity is yet to be known whether it was Russian or regime’s warplane- carried out a raid during which it targeted the city by 8 rockets at the same time which caused a massacre of 8 civilians including a man and 2 of his children and a woman and 2 of her children and another boy, in addition to injuring about 30 others many of them are children, and some of them are still in serious condition.

These raids which were monitored by the activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights come in conjunction with the entry of 3 trucks loaded with medical and food supplies through the crossing of Al-Wafedin Camp, and cross sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the trucks were unloaded on the lines of contact between the regime forces and Jaish al-Islam, and thus Jaish al-Islam, the Local Council of the city and the Red Crescent team have received the supplies which later entered to Douma city, and this is the first shipment of aid entering the Eastern Ghouta since the beginning of the truce.

And the Syrian Observatory published on Monday that the Russian forces have arrived but haven’t set up checkpoints yet, but they prepare for deployment on the contact lines and establishment of checkpoints to monitor the application of the ceasefire and the following steps related to the Russian – American – Jordanian agreement, and reliable sources also confirmed that the Russian forces arriving at the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, haven’t also set any of their checkpoints and haven’t been deployed on the contact lines in the Eastern Ghouta after they arrived to the area.

Where the SOHR published day before yesterday that it learned from reliable sources that it is expected to deploy Russian military police forces to the contact lines between the factions operating in the Eastern Ghouta and the regime forces and their allied militiamen, in order to ensure full observance of the ceasefire. Meanwhile, sources confirmed that most of the Russian soldiers deployed are Russian Muslims who were brought successively by the Russian forces earlier.