Calm returns to the Eastern Ghouta after the violent missile and air shelling that killed 15 civilians and injured about 75 others

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the death toll in the besieged Ghouta continues to rise as a result of the intensive artillery and missile shelling by the regime forces on its cities and towns, where it rose to 15 at least including 2 women and 5 children, the number of civilians who were killed and documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as a result of the bombardment by warplanes on the towns of Muhammadiyah and Otaya and al-Ash’ari area, and in the missile shelling on Mesraba town and Saqba city, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are about 75 wounded people and some of them are in critical conditions. While the calm has returned to the Eastern Ghouta following the targeting of the Eastern Ghouta by about 270 missiles in less than two hours, where they targeted areas in the cities and towns of Douma, Saqba, KafrBatna, Jesrin, Mesraba and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta.

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.