Air and artillery strikes renewed on the eastern Ghouta, more civilian casualties and more casualties on the battlefronts

Rif Dimashq province – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the SOHR monitored continuation of artillery and aerial shelling by the regime forces and warplanes on areas in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where tens of artillery and missile and airstrikes targeted areas in Douma, Harasta and Erbin in conjunction with targeting the town of Otaya and other places in Al-Marj area, while the death toll is still increasing in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus as result of morning shelling on areas in the Eastern Ghouta, where it increases to 11 including a man and his wife and another woman and a man and his child, who were killed today Thursday in the shelling of Douma, Hamuriyah and Kafrbatna and Beit Sawa.

Thus, the death toll is increasing to 613 citizens including 149 children and 90 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, among them there are 79 casualties including 21 children and 14 women were killed after the resolution of the UN Security Council, and the casualties are: 11 citizens including, a man and a child, a man and his wife and another woman citizens who were killed on Thursday in aerial shelling on Al-Marj area, Kafr Batna and Hamuriyah, 9 citizens including a child and a member of the Civil Defense were killed in bombardment by warplanes on Beit Sawa, Harasta, Otaya and Douma outside the time of the truce, 7 citizens including 2 children and a woman who were killed yesterday Tuesday, in aerial and artillery shelling on Mesraba, Jesrin and Douma; and they are the people who were killed during the first 2 days of Putin’s “truce”, 34 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 53 citizens including 8 children 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, 74 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.

Meanwhile, the clashes are still ongoing between the regime forces and their allied militiamen against fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam in areas in Hosh Al-Dawahra and other areas in the southeastern part of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where the violent clashes and the exchange of shelling caused more human losses, where it has increased to 47 at least including a local commander in the “Tiger’s” forces, the number of the members of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them whose death has been documented by the Syrian Observatory until now during the clashes of the Eastern Ghouta, since the 25th of February 2018, until today the first of March 2018, while 19 fighters at least of Jaysh Al-Islam were killed in the same fighting, and the clashes resulted in the fall of wounded and captives in the ranks of the regime forces as well as the injury of fighters in the ranks of Jaysh Al-Islam in the same clashes.