Renewed shelling on the banks of the Euphrates east of Deir Ezzor rises to more than 830 civilian martyrs and injured within 45 days
Deir Ezzor province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the SOHR learned that a woman was killed and two of her children were injured by an ISIS sniper near the outskirts of Hajin town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and 3 citizens were killed in shelling believed to belong to the International Coalition that targeted a car in Hajin area east of Euphrates, rising to 322, including 85 children below the age of eighteen, and 58 women, the number of civilians who were killed and documented by the SOHR since the 8th of November 2017,
the date of beginning the first operation on Al-Bukamal city, until today the 23rd of December 2017, the date of ending the presence of ISIS west of the Euphrates, due to the shelling by the regime forces and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, airstrikes by Russian and regime warplanes, airstrikes by the International Coalition’s warplanes. The martyrs are 202 citizen including 59 children and 37 women, who were killed in airstrikes by Russian and regime warplanes on villages and towns and cities of the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and 26 citizens including 15 children and 5 women, who were killed in shelling, the sources said its source was the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, and 55 citizens including 11 women and 8 children were killed in shelling by International Coalition’s warplanes, and 39 citizens including a 3 children and 5 women who were killed in shelling by the regime forces by artillery and missiles shells on areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the artillery, missile and aerial shelling targeted villages, cities and towns of Abu Hamam, al-Kashkiyyeh, Darnaj, Al-Bokamal, Marashdah, Sha’afah, Sbikhan, Al-Abbas, Al-Baghuz, Al-Siyyal, Hasrat, Al-Ghira, Hajin, and other areas on the banks of the Euphrates River, and the camps of Souh Al-Rifai, Al-Sukkariya, and gathering of civilians near water crossing between both banks, while the aerial and ground shelling left about 510 others injured with different severity, including tens of children and women, and some of the injured suffered imputations and permanent disabilities, while there is number of the missing, whose fate is still unknown, and some of the injured are still in serious conditions, which may increase the death toll.