The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The regime forces renew shelling areas controlled by Jaysh al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: places in Al-Marj area which is controlled by Jaysh al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta were shelled by the regime forces, where they targeted it by 4 missiles and caused material damage, but no information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published during the past few hours that several explosions were heard in Al-Rihan town near Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta, caused by shelling by the regime forces, on areas in the town, without information about injuries, and this is the first shelling on Al-Rihan area since late September 2017, while the regime forces fired two shells on areas in Ein Tarma town and its vicinity, in conjunction with artillery shelling by 4 shells fell on areas in the outskirts of Zamlka city, which caused material damage, the regime forces also fired a shell on an area in Douma city, which injured 8 persons, including children and citizen women.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the death toll raises to 211 casualties including 49 children under the age of eighteen, 25 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 16th 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 82 citizens including 25 children and 10 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 710 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.