14 casualties and tens of injuries in the Eastern Ghouta in the continuous intensive shelling by the regime forces and warplanes
Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the rise of number of people who were killed in the Eastern Ghouta to 14 citizens, including 4 children under the age of eighteen and 2 women, as a result of the violent escalation by the regime forces in preparation of a broad military operation that aim to end the control of the factions in the Eastern Ghouta, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of shelling by the regime forces in the last hour and a half, where they targeted the Eastern Ghouta by hundreds of missiles in the towns and cities of Mesraba, Jesrin, KafrBatna, Hamuriya, Saqba and Douma and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta, where this constant shelling has raised the number of killed people to 6 citizens including a child and a woman in shelling by the regime forces on Mesraba town, ands 4 citizens including 3 children under the age of eighteen were killed in warplanes’ bombardment on al-Ash’ari area, and a coincided with was killed in shelling by the regime forces on areas in Saqba city in the Eastern Ghouta, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are about 75 injured people, and some of them are in critical situation.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that the calm in the Eastern Ghouta turned into a storm of missiles, which targeted the besieged cities and towns of the Ghouta, in preparation for a massive military operation that aim to end the factions’ control in the eastern Ghouta, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of shelling in the last hour and a half by the regime forces, where they targeted the Eastern Ghouta by more than 266 missiles in the towns and cities of Mesraba, Jesrin, KafrBatna, Hamuriya, Saqba and Douma and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta, where this constant shelling has raised the number of killed and wounded people, and the Syrian Observatory documented the death of a man and a woman in addition to the injury of 55 others in Mesraba, KafrBatna and Saqba, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, while the warplanes targeted places in Al-Marj area which is controlled by Jaysh al-Islam, which caused material damage but no information about casualties., 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.