The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

For the second night in a row, the regime forces shell south of the capital Damascus after preparations for a military operation aims to end the existence of ISIS

Damascus Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the sound of violent explosions was heard in the southern section of the capital Damascus, caused from the fall of a missile believed to be ground-to-ground launched by the regime forces on area in al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood which is controlled by the “Islamic State” Organization, in conjunction with continues and intensive artillery and rocket shelling in areas in al-Hajar al-Aswad, Yarmouk Camp and outskirts of al-Tadamon which caused material damage, but no information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the regime forces intensively shelled the organization’s controlled areas in Yarmouk Camp and Al-Hajar al-Aswad in the south of the capital after the midnight of Monday – Tuesday, where they targeted the both areas by more than 40 shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, also shells, sources said that they were fired by the organization, fell after the midnight on places in the Old Damascus and other places in the area of the Old Zahraa near Yarmouk Camp, which resulted in the death of a child under the age of eighteen and the fall of wounded.

Also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that the regime forces continues to fortify their positions and prepare them for a military operation against the “Islamic State” Organization, in case the ongoing efforts to get the “Islamic State” Organization out of the south of the capital Damascus fails; through negotiations between representatives of the regime and representatives of the Organization, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information that the “Islamic State” Organization refused to leave south of the capital in accordance with regime’s terms, and tried to negotiate a secure exit toward the Syrian north not the south as suggested by the regime forces in its negotiating paper, while the regime forces are carry out targeting operations for al-Yarmouk Camp trying to put pressure on the organization and to show their seriousness in negotiating, and also to put forward the alternative option of the direct negotiation, which is a military operation that aims to end the presence of the Organization in the southern part of the capital, Damascus.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also received other information from reliable sources, in which they confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that some of the military parties which agreed to the agreement of south Rif Dimashq –which was carried out by representatives of Russia and the regime– have announced that they agree to participate in the military operation against the “Islamic State” Organization is in al-Kadam, al-Tadamon, Yarmouk Camp and al-Hajar al-Aswad south of Damascus, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information on Monday from reliable sources, about reaching an agreement in the south of Damascus, where the reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that an agreement was reached about the part controlled by the factions in the south of the capital Damascus and the tree towns of ” Yalda, Beit Saham and Babbila”, in the southern Rif Dimashq, where the sources confirmed that the agreement provides on the withdrawal of all those who reject the agreement of the factions towards two directions, where the fighters of Ababil Hauran faction, will head towards Daraa in the Syrian South, while the rest of the factions (Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement, Jaysh Al-Islam and Sham al-Rasul Brigade) will head to the Syrian North, amid anticipations for the Russian final approval to start implementing the agreement, in order to achieve the Russian goal which is securing the capital Damascus through imposing a circle of the areas where Russia managed to organize “settlements”, all of which ended with imposing displacement on those who reject the agreement.