The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Ongoing aerial and ground shelling accompanies the ongoing violent fighting in the south of the capital Damascus and raises to more than 450, the number of casualties in the ranks of the regime forces and the organization

Damascus Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the fall of shells on the regime’s controlled areas in Al-Zahira and the vicinity of the south of the capital Damascus, in the area of Sheikh Mohy al-Din in the central Damascus, and no information about casualties was reported, in conjunction with renewed raids by warplanes and helicopters and shelling by the regime forces, on ISIS controlled areas in the southern part of the capital Damascus, accompanying the violent clashes between the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the members of the “Islamic State” organization, , in Yarmouk Camp and the areas between it and Al-Hajar al-Aswad and in Al-Tadamon neighborhood, amid exchange of attacks between the both parties, in an attempt by each party to achieve advancement at the expense of the other, and the clashes were accompanied by intensive exchange of targeting in the clash areas between the both parties.

And the ongoing fighting which is accompanied by intensive shelling between the both parties, resulted in increasing the death toll as a result of the death of more members in the ranks of the both parties, where it rose to 234 persons at least, of members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, who have been killed since Thursday the 19th of April 2018, including 28 officers and 9 of them were executed, while it has increased to 220, the number of members of the organization who were killed in 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.