A new casualty raises to 76 the number of children and citizen women within 215 casualties who were killed by the aerial and land escalation in the Eastern Ghouta

Rif Dimashq province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: areas in the Eastern Ghouta witnessed renewed shelling by the regime forces on areas there, in which the renewed shelling targeted areas in Ein Tarma town and its outskirts, controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, in conjunction with shelling on places in the area of Hosh Al-Dawahra controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, while a child was killed after being shot in the outskirts of Arbin area, rising to 215 civilians in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, including 51 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 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 86 citizens including 27 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.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning that 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, in which 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.