The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The regime forces renew their targeting of areas in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces on the area fired a shell on an area in Jisrayn town in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the death toll has increased 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, 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 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, 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, as a result of the continuous siege imposed on the eastern Ghouta.