On the second day of their resumption of escalation on the besieged Ghouta…the warplanes bomb the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus with increasing the number of casualties in it
Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the warplanes returned to target the Eastern Ghouta for the second consecutive day, where the bombardment started today, Monday the 19th of February 2018, with bombardment by the warplanes on Al-Shaffuniyya area near Douma, in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, which caused material damage, and left injuries, but no information about casualties was reported yet, while two citizens including a woman died affected by the injury they had as a result of the rocket shelling by the regime forces which targeted Saqba town in the Eastern Ghouta yesterday, raising to 17, the number of persons who were killed yesterday, Sunday, the 18th of February 2018, including 5 children and 3 citizen women, who were killed in the bombardment of warplanes on the towns of Muhammedia and Otaya and Ash’ari farms, and the rocket shelling on Mesraba town and on Saqba city, and the death toll may rise because there are more than 75 injured people and some of them are seriously injured.
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.