In conjunction with the drop of the humanitarian situations in it…the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus is shelled by about 2100 shells, raids and missiles during 52 days which left about 950 casualties and wounded

The regime forces carried out during the past few days, sporadic shelling with varying degrees of intensity from an area to another, through targeting towns and cities in the Eastern Ghouta and areas in the east of the capital Damascus, by artillery and rocket shells as well as bombs dropped by drones, leaving human losses in every time, according the intensity of the shelling, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored clashes that took place in areas in Jobar neighborhood at the eastern outskirts of the capital, after the midnight of Thursday – Friday, between Al-Rahman Corps against the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, amid the fall of 7 shells fired by the regime forces on places in Jobar, in addition to 2 shells that fell yesterday at the midnight on places in the outskirts of Ashari area in the Eastern Ghouta, after the regime forces fired 5 shells on places in the outskirts of Ein Tarma town, as well as targeting by scouting planes to areas in the outskirts Zamlka city in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, which is the stronghold of Al-Rahman Corps, in which these planes dropped bombs on the city and its outskirts, which caused material damage, without information about casualties so far.

The continuation of shelling, rose 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 1109 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 239 raids at least targeted Harasta city and Mdira town since Tuesday, and the SOHR has also documented 194 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, Jisrayn, Douma, Misraba, Saqba, Hamouriyah, Arbin, Ashari Farms, Beit Sawa, Hazza and Kafr Batna, Al-Marj area, Zamlka and Al-Nashabiyah, has increased to 549.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 214 civilians in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, including 50 children and 25 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 22nd 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 85 citizens including 26 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 730 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 shelling coincides the drop of the tragic humanitarian situation in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published during the past few days, that it counted, through its activists, and with the help of medical sources in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, more than 720 medical cases including tens of children and citizen women, who need immediate evacuation, the evacuation which is ignored every time by the vehicles of the Red Crescent and the UN delegations accompany the humanitarian aid that enters the Eastern Ghouta, and leave with out paying any attention as if they accomplished their mission perfectly, which provoked the patients and their families, who mocked at the aid transporters and supervisors saying that “they think they accomplished their mission and flood us with charities that are not enough for the inhabitants of one town of Al-Ghouta which suffers daily from starving”, and this talk of the patients and their family was confided by them through complaints to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and citizens continue their complaints saying “there are families have only one meal daily, which hardly satisfies their hunger amid the high prices caused by the warlords and sellers of goods who assigned imaginary prices in return for entering the food stuffs through the regime’s checkpoints widespread at the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, Do not they observe our heartache for our children and our families?!!, or they have not been struck yet by hunger and disease makes them weep upon their children?!!” and the medical sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the diseases are varied, in terms of their nature, level of progress, extent of distribution and the difficulty of being treated, as there are more than 500 patients have cancer, including more than 100 cases need immediate evacuation, due to the great drop of their conditions, also there are 59 cases, of who are believed to have cancer, are added to the 500 cases, in which the specialists of the center specialized in diagnosing and treating cancer in the Eastern Ghouta, failed to specify and diagnose their cases, due to the lack of necessary materials, and the stop of the laboratory for the same reasons, and there are more than 30 patients have the infecting tuberculosis, as well as the presence of about 25 cases of the kidney failure, and about 70 cases with varying diseases such as diabetes mellitus, immunodeficiency, thalassemia, and other diseases.