Continuous attack by the regime forces accompany the intense and violent shelling on the Eastern Qalamoun Mountains and their surroundings

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: more explosions were heard in the eastern Qalamoun, caused by more raids by warplanes on the area, where the strikes targeted areas controlled by the factions in the Eastern Qalamoun Mountains, coincided with dropping barrel bombs by the helicopters on the same area, where the shelling targeted the area in conjunction with the continuous clashes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the rebel factions, in places in the area between al-Rahiba and Qalamoun Mountains which caused more casualties, where several members of the regime forces were killed and others were injured, while a fighter of the factions was a killed and others were injured.

The Syrian Observatory published during the past few hours that this intensive bombardment comes as an attempt by the regime forces to pressure even more on the factions in the area, to force them agree to negotiate about the mountains of the Eastern Qalamoun, and reach a solution about them like their predecessors, and it is also coincided with reaching a new agreement by the both parties in the Eastern Qalamoun amid continuation of the debate about points that were raised at the meeting that was held on Tuesday the 17th of April 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored both parties discussing points about the remaining of those who want their situations to be settled, the exit of those who reject the agreement towards a destination that will be agreed upon, on condition that the regime forces are prevented to enter and ensuring the safety of the remaining people and informing armed committees to control the security inside the city, the departure of the fighters who refuse the agreement towards the mountains of the Eastern Qalamoun, discussing the file of the detainees held at the regime’s jails, providing services for the cities and towns included within the agreement and reactivating the governmental institutions of the regime, giving a time limit for those who are of the compulsory service age, forming a committee to supervise on implementing the agreement and preventing provocations, where it is expected that a meeting will take place on the coming Thursday to reach a final solution.