A month of escalating the shelling on the Eastern Ghouta…the regime forces kill and injure more than 900 citizens during shelling on its cities and towns by more than 2000 raids, missiles and shells

A month of escalation and killing, a month of bloodshed, a month of death surrounds the besieged people, a month of escalating the shelling on the Eastern Ghouta is completed today the 14th of December 2017, by shelling similar to that one which it was started with, which killed and injured more citizens, as the regime force targeted this morning Zamlka city which is the stronghold of Al-Rahman Corps in the Eastern Ghouta, which killed a citizen woman and injured 3 other citizens including a child, as well as their targeting to Ein Tarma town in the western outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, also controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, which killed a woman and her child, and 3 others at least were injured with varying severity, while areas in Jobar neighborhood, in the eastern outskirts of the capital, were shelled by the regime forces, and no information about casualties was reported, while 4 citizens were injured in shelling by the regime forces on areas in Douma city which is the stronghold of Jaysh Al-Islam.

This shelling raises the number of the strikes hit the cities and the towns of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, in which the regime forces targeted Harasta city and Mdira town with the vicinity of the Vehicle Department by more than 1086 shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, which have targeted Harasta and Mdira in the Eastern Ghouta since Tuesday the 14thof November 2017, and the SOHR has also documented that 237 raids at least targeted Harasta city and Mdira town since Tuesday, and the SOHR has also documented 191 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 494.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death and the injury of hundreds of citizens, the latest of which was documented today with completing the military escalation on the Eastern Ghouta its first month, in which in which the death toll has increased to 209 casualties including 49 children under the age of eighteen, 23 citizen women over the age of eighteen and 4 members of the Civil Defense, the number of people whose death has been documented since the 14th of November 2017, until today the 14th of December 2017, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 129 citizens including 24 children and 15 citizen women by the raids carried out by the warplanes on the cities and towns of Douma, Harasta, Mdira, Hamouriyah, Arbin, Ein Tarma, and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta, while the SOHR documented the death of 80 citizens including 25 children and 8 citizen women due to shelling by artillery, mortar and tanks, as well as shelling by missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, on the cities and the towns of Kafr Batna, Zamlka, Ein Tarma, Douma, Arbin, Harasta, Jisrayn, Saqba, Beit Sawa, Al-Nashabiyah, Beit Nayem, and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta, and this shelling which has been continuing for a month resulted in the injury of hundreds of citizens, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the injury of about 695 persons including tens of children and citizen women, some of whom have amputated limbs and permanent disabilities, while the others are still suffering serious wounds suffering from the lack of the medical staff and the shortage of medicine.

This escalation of the aerial and artillery shelling on the Eastern Ghouta, started as a result of an attack by the Islamic movement of Ahrar Al-Sham on the Vehicle Department near Harasta city, and it managed to enter the Vehicle Department and it took the control of positions inside it, while daily violent clashes have taken place between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the fighters of the Islamic movement of Ahrar Al-Sham, in which the fighting and the exchange of shelling and targeting, resulted in the fall of a large number of human losses in the ranks of the both parties, as tens of fighters were killed and others were injured, while tens of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them were also killed and injured during a month of fighting.