The violent clashes get back to south of Damascus after hours of decrease in their pace due to bad weather and the regime forces intensify the shelling

Damascus Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the contact areas south of Damascus are witnessing an increase in the pace of clashes after hours of decrease as a result of the bad weather, which prevailed the capital Damascus, where the operations were confined to shelling in the past few hours, but then the violent clashes got back and break out between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against members of the “Islamic State” organization, in an attempt by the regime forces to advance in Yarmouk Camp, al-Hajar al-Aswad, al-Tadamon and al-Kadam in the southern sector of the capital, in conjunction with clashes between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, in areas in the vicinity of the enclave located at the northern outskirts of Yarmouk Camp, which is controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and the clashes coincided with intensifying the shelling again by the regime forces on the area, in order to secure the advancement the regime forces who are working to control more areas, and go deep in the “Islamic State” organization’s controlled areas, and control the entire south of Damascus.

The Syrian Observatory published hours ago that it documented during the first week of the military operations in the south of Damascus, the death of tens of people who were killed in the south of Damascus, where it has increased to 19 at least, the number of people who have been killed since Thursday the 19th of April 2018, in Yarmouk Camp and the south of the capital Damascus, including a man, his wife and their child, 3 other citizen women, an old man and an ambulance driver, while the number of casualties in the ranks of the conflicting parties has increased, where it rose to 61 at least, the number of members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, who were killed in 7 days of clashes, including a number of officers, while it has increased to 49, the number of members of the organization who were killed in the same period, as a result of the shelling, clashes and targeting that left tens of wounded in the ranks of the both parties, and the death toll is expected to rise because of the continued combat operations and the presence of injured cases in critical situation, while the clashes in the other front resulted in the fall of more human losses in the area of the enclave controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, where it has increased to at least 15, the number of the casualties of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, while t has increased to 17, the number of members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham who were killed in these clashes, the SOHR also documented the death of 10 fighters who were killed in as a result of bombardment by helicopters by explosive barrels on an area in the outskirts of the southern Rif Dimashq at the contact lines with the south of the capital Damascus, including commanders in Jaysh al-Islam which operates in the area, also the shelling injured several people including commanders in Jaysh al-Islam, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, while the SOHR documented the death of 10 persons at least including 3 children as a result of the fall of shells on areas in Al-Zahira, Nahr Eshe and other areas in the vicinity of the capital Damascus.