The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In the most bloody day witnessed in Syria few weeks ago… Al-Assad’s warplanes kill 75 citizens including 40 children and women during hours and injure tens of others

The regime’s warplanes kill in few hours, a number of persons approximates the total death toll of those who they killed in the first week of escalating their operations in the Eastern Ghouta

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the number of civilian casualties in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, is continuing to increase insanely, with extracting more bodies stuck under the rubble of the destruction, caused by the bombardment on the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and the death of more citizens affected by the injury they had, which resulted in documenting the highest death toll since the 29th of December 2017, the date of starting the escalation on the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where it has increased to 75 persons at leas including 18 children and 20 citizen women, the number of the casualties whose death was documented today the 6th of February 2018, by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and the casualties are: 28 citizens including 7 children and 9 citizen women who were killed in a massacre carried out by warplanes in Douma city, the stronghold of Jaysh Al-Islam, 13 citizens including 4 children and 4 citizen women who were killed in a massacre carried out by warplanes in Arbin city, 7 citizens including a child were killed in a massacre carried out in Kafr Batna town by bombardment, 6 citizens including a child and 3 citizen women were killed in airstrikes on areas in Zamalka city 5 citizens including 2 children and a woman were killed in bombardment on Mesraba town, 5 citizens including a child and a citizen woman were killed in raids on Hamouriyah city, 4 citizens including a child and a citizen woman were killed in raids on areas in Madyara, , 4 citizens including a woman killed by bombardment by warplanes on areas in Saqba city, 2 citizens was killed in an airstrike which targeted Haza town, and a child was killed in the raids by warplanes on Harasta city, the bombardment also resulted in the injury of 165 citizens at least with varying severity, including tens of children and citizen women, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries and the presence of missing people under the rubble of the destruction caused by the bombardment on the Eastern Ghouta.

The death toll of the today’s massacres approximates the death toll of those who were killed by the regime’s warplanes and the regime forces during the first week of escalating their shelling between the 29th of December 2017 and the 4th of January 2018, which reached at that time, 78 citizens including 18 children and 17 citizen women, who were killed as a result of the aerial, artillery and rocket shelling on cities and towns in the Eastern Ghouta, they are 53 citizens including 13 children 14 citizen women, and a male nurse who were killed by raids by warplanes, and 25 citizens including 5 children, 3 citizen women and 2 male nurses who were killed in artillery and rocket shelling on the Eastern Ghouta.

And with the continuation of killing against the citizens besieged in the Eastern Ghouta, the death toll continues to increase, where it has increased to 364 citizens including 90 children and 68 citizen women, who have been killed 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 244 citizens including 69 children, 56 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, Hamouriyah, Douma and Arbin, and 120 citizens including 21 children and 12 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 Jisrayn.