Despite the military mobilizations at its walls…the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus witnesses cautious calm amid an absence of warplanes from its skies for about 72 hours
The calm has been prevailing since yesterday, Tuesday the 13th of February 2018, where the calm is prevailing after the last shelling which resulted in the death of a child and a man in Mesraba town controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam, while the warplanes is still absent from the skies of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus for less than 72 consecutive hours, as the skies of the Eastern Ghouta did not witness any flights or bombardment by warplanes on cities, towns or positions in it, and this calm is coincided with mobilizations of the regime forces at the fronts of the Eastern Ghouta, preparing for a wide attack they may carry out on the area, in order to achieve advancement in the besieged Eastern Ghouta, where there are 4 major factions which are jaysh Al-Islam, Al-Rahman Corps, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that it has increased to 23, including 6 children and women, the number of martyrs who have been documented by the Syrian Observatory since the warplanes returned in the afternoon of the 10th of February 2018, to the Eastern Ghouta and the start of shelling by the regime forces on areas in it, after clam lasted for about 24 hours preceded the return of the shelling, while about 104 persons have been injured in the same period, while the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus witnessed a series of successive bombardment and massacres during 5 bloody days which left more than 250 civilian casualties and about 775 wounded including tens of children and women, 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.