Continuous clashes and aerial and missile shelling in the southern neighborhoods of the capital Damascus
Damascus Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the military operations are still taking place in the southern section of the capital Damascus, where the clashes continue between the “Islamic State” organization against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, in places in Yarmouk Camp, al-Hajar al-Aswad and the outskirts of al-Tadamon neighborhood, coincided with the continuation of airstrikes this evening by warplanes on places in the abovementioned areas, associated with missile shelling by the regime forces on the same areas, and the regime forces were able today to achieve more advancement in buildings at the southern outskirts of the organization’s controlled areas, and in a context, a person was killed and others were injured in the fall of shells on places in Sahnaya area which is under the control of the regime forces, and the Syrian Observatory had documented the death of 11 people including a man, his wife and their child, an old man and an ambulance driver, as a result of the aerial and missile shelling by the regime forces on areas south of the capital since Thursday, the 19th of April 2018.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday, Saturday, that within continued attempt by the regime forces to advance more in the area, and put pressure on the organization and forcing it to carry out the agreement, where the regime forces were able to advance and the control residential blocks, buildings and sites controlled by the organization and other areas northeast of Yarmouk Camp at the outskirts of al-Tadamon. The Syrian Observatory also published on Friday that ISIS re-approval on the agreement in the south of the capital Damascus, did not succeed to stop the military operations, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces resumed to intensify their shelling on Yarmouk Camp, al-Hajar al-Aswad, al-Tadamon and Al-Kadam, in the southern part of Damascus, along with violent clashes, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also learned that the negotiations are still underway between representatives of the organization and representatives of the regime, to agree on the dates of implementing the agreement, amid regime’s refusal to ceasefire until the organization shows “full seriousness about complying with the agreement”, the SOHR also monitored clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the remaining members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, in areas in the outskirts of Yarmouk Camp, and information about human losses in the ranks of the both parties and in the ranks of the organization.