More causalities raise the death toll to 170, the number of casualties and injured within 12 days of the failed truce of the Eastern Ghouta

The regime forces continue to violate the Eastern Ghouta agreement, which did not withstand the daily shelling, air raids and clashes between the regime forces against the factions, where the regime forces targeted with more missiles the town of Ein Tarma in the western outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, leaving more causalities and injured people, where a woman and a child were killed and others were injured due to the shelling of missiles believe to be ground-to-ground launched by the regime forces on Ein Tarma town, rising the number of martyrs as the Eastern Ghouta truces completes 12 days since its entry into force, after it was implemented on the 22nd of July 2017, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented during this period the death and injury of about 170 civilians; they are 25 civilians including 7 children below the age of 18 and 7 women over the age of 18, who were killed and injured in the missile and artillery shelling and airstrikes on the Eastern Ghouta, while about 145 persons were injured with different severity, and some of them were seriously injured and had amputations.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented in the period from the 22nd of July until today’s noon (Thursday) the 3rd of August, the death of 3 members of the regime forces and their allied militiamen and about 15 others were injured with varying severity in the clashes and exchange of targeting between the regime forces and their allied militiamen on one side, and the Islamic factions operating in the Eastern Ghouta on the other, while the continued breaches by the regime forces and the factions’ targeting on the positions and the sites of the regime forces sometime, led to the failure of the truce in the Eastern Ghouta, as a result of not abiding by the ceasefire and the cessation of the military operations, where the regime forces have been seeking for weeks before the implementation of the truce to separate Juber neighborhood from the Eastern Ghouta through advancing in adjacent with the southern areas controlled by the factions.