More causalities raise the death toll of civilians to 4 who were killed by heavy shelling of the regime forces on a town controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam in the besieged Ghouta

Rif Dimashq province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: The death toll is still increasing in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, as a result of missile and artillery shelling on the town controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where it rose to 4, including a child, the number of civilian martyrs documented by the SOHR due to missile shells on areas in Misraba town, while the death toll is still expected to increase due to the presence of injured people in serious conditions.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in the past hours that it monitored that the warplanes carried out 2 raids targeting areas in Al-Nashabiyah town in Al-Marj area controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam, which witnessed entry of new humanitarian aid few days ago, while the regime forces targeted Mesraba town controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam, by about 35 rocket shells, which killed one person and injured about 15 others with varying severity, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries while the regime forces targeted areas in Ein Tarma town controlled by Al-Rahman Corps by about 20 rocket shells, which resulted in the injury of about 5 citizens including 2 women.

This rocket and artillery shelling comes after around of shelling carried out few hours ago, which targeted places in the orchards stretched between Harasta and Douma cities, by 5 artillery shells, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, and which which came after calm that prevailed the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus since yesterday with the continuation of the regime’s mobilizations in the vicinity of the Eastern Ghouta, in order to carry out a wide operation in the area under the command of the Brigadier in the regime forces Suhail Al-Hassan, and this calm comes after shelling by the regime forces which targeted Douma city and Mesraba town by 13 missiles believed to be ground-to-ground and artillery shells, which resulted in the death of 2 citizen women and the injury of 14 others.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that it monitored continuation of calm in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, since the midnight of Thursday – Friday, intervened by only one violation through targeting Harasta city by 2 artillery shells, after the pace of the bombardment by warplane sand the shelling by the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them by missiles and artillery shells, had decreased, where they left during the period between the afternoon of the 10th of February 2018 until the night of the 15th of February 2018, 30 civilian casualties including 8 children and 4 citizen women who were killed in the aerial and artillery shelling, and whose death was documented by the SOHR, 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, and this calm is coincided with the continuation of the talks about the Eastern Chouta, in order to reach an agreement between the factions operation in the Eastern Ghouta and supervising it, and the regime’s authorities with a Russian mediation, while the talks are taking place in conjunction with ongoing mobilizations in the vicinity of the besieged Ghouta, by the regime forces and their allies, in order to carry out a wide operation in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, under the command of the Brigadier in the regime forces, Suhail Al-Hassan, known as the “Tiger”, who led the battle during which the organization was expelled from Aleppo, the Syrian desert and the west of the Euphrates, and fought previously against the rebel and Islamic factions.