About 10 casualties and wounded by shelling by the regime forces on Douma city and intensive targeting on other cities and towns in the area
Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the intensive shelling on the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus do not almost stop, with changing the pace of violent from time to time, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented since this dawn the 19th of November 2017, escalated violent targeting, targeted areas in Harasta city and its vicinity and the clash areas in the vicinity of the Vehicle Department, by more than 50 shells, while the warplanes carried out about 10 which targeted areas in Harasta city and its vicinity, followed by shelling by 3 shells on areas in Misraba town, while the warplanes targeted areas in Arbin city by 2 raids, while the SOHR monitored that Douma city was targeted by two artillery shells in conjunction with shelling by 5 missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, that targeted areas in the same city, which killed 2 citizens and injured 8 others, with varying degrees of severity, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries.
This intensive shelling is coincided with the continuation of the combat operations between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the fighters of the Islamic Movement of Ahrar Al-Sham, inside the Vehicle Department and areas in its vicinity, amid targeting at a violent pace in the clash areas between the both parties, and information about more confirmed human losses in their ranks, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the pace of clashes decreased in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, in which the Syrian Observatory monitored the decrease of the pace of clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the fighters of the Islamic Movement of Ahrar Al-Sham, amid sporadic and exchange of targeting between he both parties, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published during the past hours that ongoing shelling kills more martyrs and leaves more injured civilians, as the military operations continue for the fifth day in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, since the beginning of the attack by Fajr Al-Ummah Battalion at noon of Tuesday the 14th of November 2017, where the SOHR monitored the escalation of violent clashes between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against fighters of Ahrar Al-Sham Movement in areas inside Vehicle Management and other areas surrounding it, amid an intensive targeting in the clash areas, and the warplanes carried out more air strikes, where it rose to at least 14 including a child and 4 women, the number of civilian martyrs, who were killed today, Saturday the 18th of November; they are 6 martyrs including 4 women who were killed in air strikes on areas in Madira town, 2 citizens were killed in air strikes on areas in Harasta city, 4 citizens including a child were killed in missile shelling, believed to be ground-to-ground, on areas in Haza town, 2 citizens were killed in missiles shelling in Hamouriya city. The shelling on these areas and on the cities of Douma, Zamlka, and Madira left about 40 persons injured with different severity, including women and children, and some of them are in serious conditions, which may increase the death toll, and the regime forces targeted a point of Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic Movement in the front of Vehicle Management, and the targeting injured about 20 fighters who were suffering blackout, hard breathing and suffocation, and sources accused the regime forces of targeting the positions of the fighters with shells containing gases.