After the military operations completed their first week…relative calm prevails the Eastern Ghouta after shelling on it by more than 1300 raids and missiles that left about 450 casualties and wounded
Relative calm have been prevailing the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus since yesterday evening, as a result of decreasing the pace of violent until it stopped between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the fighters of the Islamic Movement of Ahrar Al-Sham, in the vicinity of the Vehicle Department and areas inside it, and the Eastern Ghouta witnessed shelling by several shells targeted Arbin city yesterday evening, while the regime forces targeted by several shells areas in Ein Tarma town and Arbin city, which are controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, this calm came after a week of intensive artillery, aerial and rocket shelling, on the cities and the towns of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, which resulted in the fall of a large number of casualties, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored yesterday the death of 3 citizens including a woman affected by the injury they had by shelling previously by the regime forces on Arbin city and Misraba town, thus, the death toll has increased to 90 casualties at least
including 18 children under the age of eighteen, 10 citizen women over the age of eighteen and 4 members of the Civil Defense, the number of people who have been killed since Tuesday the 14th of November 2017, where 3 citizens including a woman died on Tuesday affected by the injury they had by artillery and rocket shelling previously on Arbin city and Misraba town, 10 citizens including 4 children and 2 citizen women were killed on Monday, by artillery and rocket shelling on Arbin, Mdira, Hamuriya and Kafr Batna, while 17 citizens including a child were killed on Sunday, by artillery and rocket shelling on Douma, Misraba, Mdira, Hamuriya, while on Saturday at least 14 were killed including a child girl and 4 women as a result of raids on Mdira and Harasta, and artillery shelling on Hazza and Hamuriya, while 20 citizens including 6 children and 2 citizen women were killed on Friday, as a result of artillery, aerial and rocket shelling on Douma, Harasta and Arbin, while 14 citizens including 4 children and women were killed on Thursday, due to raids and land shelling on Arbin, Beit Sawa, Douma, Hamuriya and Ein Tarma, and the casualties who were killed on Wednesday, are 8 citizens including two children they were killed by raids and artillery shelling Arbin, Saqba, Hamuriya and Douma, while the casualties who were killed on Tuesday are 4 citizens were killed by shelling on Arbin and Mdira, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the injury of about 356 persons at least including tens of children and citizen women, some of them are still in serious situation, which may raise the death toll.
While the shelling hit the towns and the cities of Douma, Harasta, Zamlka, Mdira, Misraba, Saqba, Hamouriyah, Arbin, Ashari, Beit Sawa, Hazza and Kafr Batna, Beit Nayem, Ashari in which the SOHR has documented that the regime forces targeted Harasta city and Mdira town with the vicinity of the Vehicle Department by more than 754 artillery shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, since last Tuesday the 14th of November 2017, and the SOHR has also documented that 156 raids at least targeted Harasta city and Mdira town since Tuesday, and the SOHR has documented 101 raids at least hit the cities of Douma, Arbin and Zamlka as well as other areas in the Eastern Ghouta in the same period, while the number of shells and missiles that are believed to be ground-to-ground, fired by the regime forces and fell on the cities and the towns of Ein Tarma, Douma, Misraba, Saqba, Hamouriyah, Arbin, Ashari Farms, Beit Sawa, Hazza and Kafr Batna, has increased to 289.