4 Cities and towns in the Eastern Ghouta witness airstrikes that killed 30 citizens including 13 children and woman, increasing the death toll to 397 since the start of escalation

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Airstrikes continue to target the Eastern Ghouta causing more casualties and wounded, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored shelling by the regime forces using artillery shells, targeting areas in Douma city, also it monitored the warplanes carrying out since Sunday morning 22 raids at least targeting areas in Harasta city, while it rose to 8, the number of raids that targeted areas in Arbin city which caused the death of a citizen, where it has increased to 30 persons including 12 children and a citizen woman, the number of casualties who were killed due to the bombardment by the warplanes on the Eastern Ghouta, and the casualties are: 11 citizens including 6 children and a citizen woman who were killed in a massacre in Hamouriyah city carried out by warplanes, 10 citizens including 4 children were killed in a massacre carried out by warplanes by targeting Beit Sawa town, and 8 citizens including 2 children were killed in airstrikes on Douma city, and a citizen was killed in shelling by the regime forces on Arbin city, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of about 65 injuries, some of them have seriously wounded.

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 397 citizens including 103 children and 69 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 277 citizens including 82 children, 57 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 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 Jesrin.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning that it has increased to 80 persons at least including 19 children and 20 citizen women, the number of the casualties who were killed yesterday, and the casualties are: 31 citizens including 8 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, 7 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 Hamuriya 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, 3 citizens was killed in an airstrike which targeted Hazza 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.