In preparation for a military operation by Suhail Hassan, the regime forces shell the Eastern Ghouta in half an hour by about 240 missiles kill and wound tens of people
Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces starting heavy and intense shelling on the eastern Ghouta, where they launched more than 236 missiles on areas in the towns and cities of Douma, Saqba, Mesraba, Jesrin and Hamuriya and KafrBatna, which killed one person at least and injured tens of others, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation; and sue to the presence of missing people, in addition to the difficulty of rescuing the injured people as a result of the continued targeting by the regime forces for the Eastern Ghouta, raising to 10, the number of persons who were killed today, Sunday, the 18th of February 2018, including 4 children at least, they were killed in the rocket shelling on Mesraba town and the bombardment of warplanes on Al-Shifonyyah and Ash’ari farms, and the shelling on Saqba, and the death toll may rise because there are more than 60 injured people and some of them are seriously injured.
This intense shelling on the Eastern Ghouta has targeted it by more than 236 missiles in about half an hour, which caused more destruction in the Ghouta which surroundings have been witnessing for days shelling by the regime forces and their allies, preparing for the start of a military operation in order to advance in the area and control it, this shelling is considered as a prelude for the start of a military operation by the regime forces led by the Brigadier General Suhail Hasan, aka “The Tiger”, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the 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, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from a number of reliable sources, that if the talks and negotiations failed to achieve “reconciliation” in the Eastern Ghouta, then, about 8000 Chinese troops will be brought to participate in the military operations in Rif Dimashq, in order to control the Eastern Ghouta, and secure the vicinity of the capital Damascus, where bringing the Chinese soldiers is associated with the failure of negotiations about the Eastern Ghouta, and it is noteworthy that the Russian forces officially took part in the military operations in Syria on the 30th of September 2015, in the regime’s side by air and land, and the Turkish forces officially entered Syria on the 24th of August 2016, while the International Coalition officially entered and participated in the military operations in Syria on the 23rd of September 2014.