3 months of the escalation on the Eastern Ghouta before the eyes of the world… 760 civilian casualties including about 300 children and women…more than 2200 wounded… shelling by about 5500 missiles, shells and raids
The heavy shelling and continuous killing resulted in a greater deterioration to the tragic humanitarian and medical reality in the besieged Ghouta
The escalation on the besieged Eastern Ghouta completed today the 14th of February 2018, its 3rd consecutive month, since it started on the 14th of November 2017, by the regime forces and their allies and by warplanes by shelling by artillery, rocket, tanks and mortar shells, as well as missiles believed to be ground-to-ground and targeting by sniper bullets and heavy machineguns, to increase the pain of the Eastern Ghouta day after another, escalate the tragic humanitarian conditions in it, and deteriorate the health, medical and alimentary reality, as a result of replacing the lifting of the siege by clamping it down, and replacing the sending of aid by sending missiles, bombs and shells into the hungry Ghouta, and replacing the sending of the wounded, injuries and patients to receive treatment, by sending them to the graves to be buried or to the hospital to receive the available treatment, which is lack and which with the shortage of medicines turns the wounded who has seriously injured into a martyr, as a result of the inability to treat such cases or the lack of specialties and lack of medication.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored more human losses as a result of this hysterical and savage shelling, which took place before the silent international community which concentrates its efforts against the usage of the chemical weapons and gases, and is blind about the killing with the common weapons, this killing which resulted in tens of massacres in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, since the 14th of November 2017, where the death toll has increased to 760 citizens including 176 children under the age of eighteen, 116 citizen women over the age of eighteen, who were killed in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, since the 14th of November 2017, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 531 citizens including 136 children and 91 citizen women by the raids carried out by the warplanes, while the SOHR documented the death of 229 citizens including 40 children and 25 citizen women due to shelling by artillery, mortar and tanks, as well as shelling by missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the injury of more than 2200 persons including tens of children and citizen women, some of whom have amputated limbs and permanent disabilities, while the others are still suffering serious wounds suffering from the lack of the medical staff and the shortage of medicine, as a result of the continuous siege imposed on the eastern Ghouta.
And the ongoing shelling rose the number of strikes on the towns and cities of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where the regime forces targeted Hasrsta city and Madira town and the vicinity of Vehicle Management by more than 2340 missile and artillery shelling and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground since the 14th of November. The SOHR documented at least 890 airstrikes that targeted Harasta city and Madyara town, and the SOHR also documented at least 730 airstrikes targeted the cities of Douma, Erbin, Zamlka, Hamuriyah, Misraba, Madira and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta in the same period, while it rose to at least 1450, the number of shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground fired by the regime forces that targeted the cities and towns of Ein Tarma, Jisreen Douma, Hamuriya, Saqba, Misraba, Arbin, Kafrbatna, Beit Sawa, Beit Nayem, Haza, Al-Ashary farms, Zamlka, Al-Nashabiya, and Al-Marj area.