Putin’s “humanitarian” truce applied in its second day amid calm prevails the besieged Ghouta of Damascus with the exception of intensive shelling and sporadic clashes in its eastern fronts

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Putin’s “humanitarian” truce started to be applied in its second consecutive day, and it is decided to start every day at 9 am and end at 2 pm, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored calm with the start of the validity of the truce this morning, Wednesday, where the Eastern Ghouta did not witness during the first hour and a half of its validity, any aerial or ground shelling, except sporadic clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against Jaysh Al-Islam, in the fronts of Al-Rihan, Zriqiyyeh and Hosh Al-Dawahira, to be followed by intensive rocket and artillery shelling which targeted the fronts of Al-Shiffuniyya and Al-Dawahira, while the start of the truce’s validity today, preceded by carrying out 5 raids on areas in the front of Hosh Al-Dawahira and its vicinity, as well as 6 raids targeted areas in Harasta city and its outskirts, while the regime’s helicopters dropped 4 explosive barrels on Al-Shiffuniyya before the truce started, and they targeted in the same time areas in Hosh Al-Dawahira, Hazrma, Otaya and Hosh Al-Salihiyah in Al-Marj area, by more than 105 missiles, in conjunction with 10 raids preceded the truce by few minutes, targeted areas in Otaya, Ashari and Al-Dawahira Basin.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning that it monitored the continuation of the violent clashes in the area of Hosh Al-Dawahira in Al-Marj area, since last night and until now, between the fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam against the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them, accompanied by the continuation of intensive shelling by tens of shells and missiles, in addition to ongoing bombardment, amid advancement by the regime forces in Hosh Al-Dawahira, where the regime forces are seeking during their attack accompanied by the heavy preliminary rocket shelling, to complete their control over Hosh Al-Dawahira after they managed to advance into it, while the fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam try to repel the attacks, while the clashes are continuing between the both parties, in the area of Al-Rihan – Al-Shiffuniyya, in an attempt by the regime forces to advance towards Al-Shiffuniyya, while the Syrian Observatory monitored the extraction of the bodies of 6 casualties including the “chief of the Local Council” and members of the council, who were killed in an earlier bombardment by the warplanes on Al-Shiffuniyya area on Saturday the 24th of February 2018, raising to 588 citizens including 146 children and 88 women, the number of the civilian casualties who have been killed by the aerial, rocket and artillery shelling and bombardment by explosive barrels on the Eastern Ghouta, since Sunday evening the 18th of February 2018, and the casualties are: 7 citizens including 2 children and a woman who were killed yesterday, in aerial and artillery shelling on Mesraba, Jesrin and Douma, 32 citizens including 11 children and 7 women who were killed on Monday in the aerial and rocket shelling on Douma and Harasta and the area between Mesraba and Beit Sawa, 18 citizens including 5 children under the age of eighteen and 4 women were killed Sunday, in shelling by the regime forces and bombardment by warplanes on areas in Douma, al-Shifonyyah, Saqba, Beit Sawa, Hammuriyyeh and al-Rihan, and 51 citizens including 8 children under the age of eighteen, and 9 women were killed on Saturday by bombardment by warplanes on Harasta, Douma, Zamalka, Beit Sawa and Al-Shifonyyah, 43 citizens including 18 children and 4 women were killed on Friday, 73 citizens including 9 children and 8 citizen women who were killed on Thursday in bombardment by warplanes on areas in Mesraba and Aftries towns and Douma and Arbin cities, 87 citizens including 21 children and 12 women, were killed on Wednesday in bombardment by helicopters by explosive barrels on Kafr Batna town and airstrikes on Jesrin town and raids on Saqba, 133 citizens including 33 children and 17 women were killed on Tuesday, in the shelling on the areas of Nashabiyah, Otaya, Arbin, Zamalka Mesraba, Hamuriya, Saqba and Ash’ari, 127 citizens including 34 children and 23 women were killed on Monday, in the aerial and ground bombardment on Hamuriya, Beit Sawa and Saqba, Douma , Mesraba, Otaya, Nashabiyah, Zamalka, Aftries, KafrBatna, Al-Shifonyyah and Jesrin, 17 citizens including 5 children and 3 women were killed on the evening of Sunday, while the aerial and artillery shelling resulted in the fall of hundreds of injuries, some of them are still in serious cases, which may raise the death toll.