The regime forces target again a number of areas in the Eastern Ghouta by artillery and rocket shells

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: areas in the Eastern Ghouta witnessed renewed shelling by the regime forces on areas there, where the regime forces shelled areas in Saqba city and the area of Ashari Farms, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the regime forces continue shelling on areas controlled by Al-Rahman Corps,  Jaysh Al-Islam and Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic Movement in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where the SOHR monitored shelling on places in Al-Shifuniyah areas which is controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta, causing material damage, and no information about casulities, rising to at least 25, the number of artillery and missiles shells fired by the regime forces on cities and town of Douma, Ein Tarma, Arbin, Al-Shifuniya, and Harasta since the midnight of Sunday- Monday until now, where the ongoing shelling rises the number of strikes on the towns and cities of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where the regime forces targeted Hasrsta city and Madira town and the vicinity of Vehicle Management by more than 1120 missile and artillery shelling and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground since the 14th of November. The SOHR documented at least 239 airstrikes that targetd Harasta city and Madira town since Tuesday, and the SOHR also documented at least 194 airstrikes targeted the cities of Douma, Erbin, Zamlka, Hamuriyah, Misraba, Madira and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta in the same period, while it rose to at least 573, the number of shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground fired by the regime forces that targeted the cities and towns of Ein Tarma, Jisreen Douma, Hamuriya, Saqba, Misraba, Arbin, Kafrbatna, Beit Sawa, Beit Nayem, Haza, Al-Ashary farms, Zamlka, Al-Nashabiya, and Al-Marj area.

This heavy shelling caused the death toll to rise to 216 civilians including 51 children under the age of eighteen, 26 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, 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, while the SOHR documented the death of 87 citizens including 27 children and 11 citizen women due to shelling by artillery, mortar and tanks, as well as shelling by missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the injury of about 740 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.