After an absence for about 24 hours, the warplanes carry out two raids targeting the besieged Eastern Ghouta of Damascus

Rif Dimashq province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the warplanes returned to fly again in the sky of the Eastern Ghouta, after 24 hours of absence in the sky of the Ghouta, where the SOHR monitored that the warplanes carried out two raids targeting the gardens extending between the cities of Douma and Harasta, amid targeting by a raid on areas in the city of Douma, in conjunction with firing 7 artillery shells at areas in the city of Douma, and a missile, believed to be ground-to-ground fell on the area, causing material damage and no information about human losses.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Right published hours ago that the warplanes has been absent from the skies of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, after a series of successive bombardment and massacres during 5 days in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus which left more than 250 civilian casualties and about 775 wounded including tens of children and women, while the regime forces targeted areas in the outskirts of Harasta city by 11 missiles at least believed to be ground-to-ground, and other places in the city, in conjunction with shelling by 2 artillery shells on Hosh Al-Salihiyah village in Al-Marj area, which injured a person, and the regime forces fired a shell on Douma city, which resulted in the injury of 3 persons, and the regime forces also fired 2 shells this morning, on areas in Beit Sawa town, in conjunction with the fall of 2 shells on Mesraba town which injured another person, as well as 2 shells which fell on areas in Saqba city, preceded by shelling by 7 missiles at least believed to be ground-to-ground, on areas in Arbin city, while areas in Douma city were targeted earlier by 5 artillery shells , without information about casualties.

And this decreased pace of killing and shelling as well as the stop of the warplanes’ flight, comes after 5 bloody days, in which the Eastern Ghouta witnessed the highest death toll during 5 days since late 2014, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the death of 250 persons at least including 104 children and citizen women, on Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday and Monday, and in a descending order of the numbers of civilian casualties in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus according to the number of casualties in cities and towns, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ documented casualties: in Arbin city 61 citizens were killed including 16 children and 8 citizen women, then Douma city with the death of 59 citizens including 14 children and 12 citizen women, in addition to the death of  7 other citizens including 2 citizen woman, they were killed in the artillery shelling by the regime forces on the Douma city, followed by Hamuriya city with 26 citizens including 8 children and 2 citizen women, followed by Beit Sawa town with 21 casualties including 6 children and 2 citizen women, then Jesrin town with 17 casualties including 3 children and 6 citizen women were killed in a massacre in the town, then Hazza town with 15 citizens including 5 children and a citizen woman, followed by Zamalka city with 12 casualties including a child and 3 citizen women, followed by Mesraba town with 11 casualties including 3 children and 4 citizen women, then Kafr Batna with 7 citizens including a child, then Saqba with 7 casualties including 2 children and 2 citizen women, then Madyara with 4 citizens including a child and a citizen woman, and finally Harasta city with 3 citizens including a child, while about 775 citizens were injured with varying severity including tens of children and citizen women.