23 casualties at least including 6 children and citizen women were killed by massacres in the Eastern Ghoutah raise the death toll to 130 persons during 12 days of escalating the shelling

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the fighting is still continuing in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, with the continuation of the aerial, artillery and rocket shelling, on the cities and the towns controlled by the factions operating there, and as a result of the death of more citizens in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the increase of the number of casualties in Misraba town which is controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam, Mdira town that is controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, and Douma city which is controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam and its stronghold in Syria, while the number of casualties who were killed today the 26^th of November 2017, by the shelling by the regime forces and by the warplanes, has increased to 23 persons at least including 4 children and two citizen women, in which the death toll has increased in Misraba town to reach 15 casualties including 3 children of one family as well as 3 persons of another family including two brothers, while the number of casualties who were killed in raids on areas in Mdira town has increased to 6 persons including a child and two citizen women, while two citizens were killed by shelling by the regime forces by missiles on areas in Douma city, while the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries.

This shelling which caused massacres that killed citizens exhausted by the siege imposed on them, was accompanied by the continuation of the clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the fighters of the Islamic Movement of Ahrar Al-Sham, in areas inside the Vehicle Department and its vicinity, in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, in conjunction with shelling by the regime forces on areas in Harasta city and near it.

And with the increase of the number of casualties, the death toll has increased to 127 casualties at least including 30 children under the age of eighteen, 13 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 14^th of November 2017, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented today the death of 23 citizens including 4 children and 2 citizen women they are: 15 citizens including 3 children were killed by raids on Misraba, 2 persons were killed by rocket shelling on Douma, and 6 citizens including a child and two citizen women were killed by raids on Mdira, while 11 citizens including 5 children and a woman were killed on Thursday, as 3 citizens were killed due to raids on areas in the cities and the towns of Harasta, Douma and Ein Tarma, and a man and two children were killed by raids on Arbin city, a man and a citizen woman were killed by rocket shelling on Ein Tarma and Jisreen, while a child boy and a child girl were killed by raids on Hazza and Misraba, and a child boy died affected by the injury he had by artillery shelling on Arbin city 3 days ago, while 3 children were killed on Wednesday they are: two brother children- a boy and a girl, were killed by artillery shelling by the regime forces on areas in Ein Tarma, and a 10-day-old baby girl died in Harasta city in the Eastern Ghouta, affected by the injury she had as a result of shell by the regime forces on areas in the city, while 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 440 persons at least including tens of children and citizen women, some of them are still in serious situation, which may raise the death toll.