More casualties raise the death toll of Saqba massacre to 5 casualties most of them are children and citizen women
Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the number of casualties is increasing, due to the death of injuries of who died affected by the injury they had as a result of the renewed shelling on the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, in which the number has increased to 5 persons of the casualties whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights of who were killed short time ago in the massacre that the regime forces carried out in Saqba city which is controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, and the casualties include two citizen women and two children, while there are about 9 injuries, some of them are in critical cases, which may raise the death toll, and the regime forces also shelled areas in the outskirts of Ein Tarma town from the side of Jobar, and areas in the east of the capital by several shells, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 2nd of November 2017, that 6 citizens including a child and a citizen woman were killed as a result of bombardment by warplanes, on an area near Douma Grand Mosque, which resulted in a massacre in the city considered to be the stronghold of Jaysh Al-Islam, these raids came within the renewed air strikes on the Eastern Ghouta after the shelling was resumed in late September, two months after the absence of the bombardment, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 26th of September 2017, that 4 citizens were killed as a result of raids by the warplanes on Douma city which is controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta, they are the first casualties to be killed by air strikes since the end of July 2017, in which these raids come after two months of being the warplanes away from the sky of the Eastern Ghouta, and the raids has stopped since the end of July 2017, on the cities and the towns of the Eastern Ghouta, after killing and injuring tens of citizens by raids by the warplanes on Arbin and the cities and the towns of the Eastern Ghouta, which followed an agreement to decrease the escalation which didn’t last against the successive violations to the agreement which was carried out between Russia and representatives of the factions in the Eastern Ghouta, in the 22nd of September 2017.