Airstrikes target areas in Arbin city in the besieged Ghouta of Damascus

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the warplanes carried out a raid after the midnight of Sunday – Monday, on places in Arbin city in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, which caused material damage, without information about injuries, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last night, that the clashes was renewed sporadically today in areas inside and in the vicinity of the Vehicle Department, between the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic factions, while the regime forces targeted by about 20 shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground places in the towns of Harasta and Arbin this evening Sunday, in addition to a rocket shelled by the regime forces targeted Douma city this evening, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that the artillery and missile shelling escalated again after they stopped suddenly, in conjunction with the suspended attacks of the Hayaat Tahrri Al-Sham, Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic Movement and the Islamic factions on Vehicle Department near Harasta city, where the SOHR monitored the warplanes carrying out more raids on areas in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, rising to at least 23, the number of raids that targeted the city of Harasta since today’s morning until now, while the regime forces fired about 40 missiles believed to be ground-to-ground at areas in the city of Harasta and its outskirts and its vicinity, rising to at least 55, the number of missiles that targeted the aforementioned areas the shelling also injured 7 people with different severity. The regime forces also targeted the city by more than 42 artillery shells, injuring at least 6 people. The regime forces also shelled areas in the city of Arbin by four artillery shells that targeted areas in the city, which is controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, rising to 34, the number of civilians who were killed and injured in the Eastern Ghouta since today’s morning, including 5 citizens including a child and a woman.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that it monitored that the violent clashes between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the Islamic movement of Ahrar Al-Sham against the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, stopped suddenly, in the vicinity of the Vehicle Department and its outskirts, aver the factions carried out an attack started with blowing a Syrian fighters himself up by a booby trapped vehicle, and a violent attack by the factions targeted the Vehicle Department, accompanied by shelling by tens of shells, missiles believed to be ground-to-ground and airstrikes, on Harasta city, its vicinity and its outskirts, while these clashes came about a month after the first combined violent attack by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the Islamic movement of Ahrar Al-Sham, which was carried out in the same technique, on the 29th of December 2017, in which a Saudi fighter blew himself up by a booby trapped vehicle, followed by a violent attack enables the factions to advance in the area and impose a full siege on the Vehicle Department, then the regime forces carried out violent shelling by artillery, tanks and mortar shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, and by the warplanes on the cities and the towns of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, raising to 234 citizens including 58 children and 42 citizen women, since the 29th of December 2017 as a result of targeting the Eastern Ghouta by hundreds of raids and hundreds of artillery and rocket strikes, and the casualties are 131 citizens including 41 children, 31 citizen women and a male nurse, they were killed in raids by the warplanes on areas in Harasta city controlled by the Islamic movement of Ahrar Al-Sham and raids on Madyara town as well as the cities of Saqba, Hamuriya, Douma and Arbin, and 103 citizens including 17 children and 11 citizen women and 2 male nurses were killed by artillery and rocket shelling targeted areas in Beit Sawa town, the cities of Harasta, Hamuriya, Douma and Arbin as well as the towns of Kafr Batna, Mesraba, Al-Nashabiyah, Otaya and Mesraba.