More martyrs raise the death toll to at least 217 in the Eastern Ghouta since the beginning of escalation in the area

Rif Dimashq province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the regime forces fires several artillery shelling at areas in Harasta city in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where a drone targeted areas near Zamalka, the stronghold of Jaysh Al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta, while the SOHR learned that a person was injured by a sniper near the outskirts of Hazrama town in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus. This heavy shelling caused the death toll to rise to 217 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 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 88 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, on the cities and the towns of Kafr Batna, Zamalka, Ein Tarma, Douma, Arbin, Harasta, Jesrin, 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 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.