The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After killing more than 60 civilians by missiles and rockets, the regime forces increase resentment of south Damascus people by preventing them from recovering all the bodies under the rubble

Damascus province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the resentment is increasing among people of Yarmouk Camp located in the southern part of the capital Damascus, against the backdrop of preventing citizens and medical teams by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them; from recovering corpses from under the rubble, which were left by the aerial and missile bombardment, which Yarmouk Camp and south of Damascus had witnessed during the military operation of the regime forces in the area from the 19th of April until the 19th of May 2018, which left tens of casualties back then, where the bodies of many casualties have remained under the rubble due to the difficulty of reaching them, and Syrian Observatory was informed by sources that -so far- only 5 people have been recovered of one family, they are a woman and 4 of her children, they were killed in a previous aerial and missile shelling on the Camp and their bodies remained under the rubble of the destroyed camp.

It worth mentioning that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented that it rose to 62 persons including 16 children and 9 women, the number of casualties who have been killed since the 19th of April 2018, in the shelling by the regime forces by artillery and rocket shells missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, and the bombardment by warplanes and helicopters by missiles, bombs and explosive barrels, while the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of tens of injuries and missing people, where a number of injuries have seriously wounded and others are in critical situations, while the fate of many of the missing people is still unknown, weather they have died or are still alive, where the citizens and rescuers try when the pace of shelling decreases, to extract stuck people or bodies from the rubble of destruction caused by the shelling on Yarmouk Camp and the rest controlled areas of the organization.

Also the SOHR documented the death of 251 members at least 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 31 officers and 9 of them were executed, while it has increased to 233, 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.