The warplanes raid the east of Daraa again along with the continuation of ground shelling and fighting within the operations’ ongoing escalation in the Syrian South

Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the escalation is still continuing on Daraa province, by the regime forces and their allies, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored shelling by the regime forces targeting areas in Daraa Al-Balad in Daraa city, while the warplanes carried out raids which targeted areas in the towns of Al-Hrak, Bosr Al-Harir and Nahte, while the regime forces targeted areas in Al-Mal village, as well as other places in the towns of Nahte, Alma, Bosr Al-Harir and Al-Karak Al-Sharqi, while the clashes continued between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic factions, in areas in Samma front, in the eastern countryside of Daraa, at the administrative border with Al-Suwaidaa province, while the rebel and Islamic factions targeted positions of the regime forces in Daraa Al-Mahatta and other areas in the north-eastern countryside of Daraa by several shells, the SOHR also learned that the warplanes are still flying over Daraa, along with the factions’ alertness to repel any attempt by the regime forces to advance in the area.

And the Syrian Observatory published few hours ago that the regime forces fired shells on places in Al-Shiyah village and other places in Al-Lajat area, which resulted in the death of a citizen and the injury of 2 other persons of his family with varying severity, raising to17 at least, the number of citizens who have been killed since Tuesday and until today, Friday, as a result of shelling by the regime forces on Daraa countryside, including a citizen woman and her son as well as 3 other citizen women and 2 child girls, and the SOHR also documented the death of 3 citizens including 2 children who were killed due to the fall of shells on areas in Al-Matar neighborhood in Daraa city and other places in Al-Sanamayn city, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday, Thursday, that the rocket and artillery shelling continued on the eastern sector of Daraa countryside, where the regime forces targeted areas in the towns of this countryside by more shells, which resulted in increasing the number of rocket and artillery shells and missiles which were fired on Daraa countryside to more than 430 shells, where they targeted the villages and towns of Al-Karak Al-Sharqi, Nahta, Bosr al-Harir, Eastern Maliha, Western Maliha and Om Walad in the eastern sector of Daraa countryside, al-Lajat area in the north-eastern countryside of Daraa, Abtaa in the middle countryside of Daraa, and Kafr Nasej in the north-western countryside of Daraa, and this shelling aims to force the factions operating in the countryside of Daraa  –which have agreed to form a central operation room in the Syrian south– to yield and accept the Russian conditions to achieve a “reconciliation and agreement” in Daraa and Quneitra provinces, and to preventing a military action that would cause a large human losses of civilians, fighters, members of both parties, also the regime forces are shelling these areas which include the least number of villages; trying to find a corridor for them in case no agreement was reached, to start a military operation that would split factions’-controlled areas, where the factions control the largest part of Daraa and Al-Quneitra, while the regime forces targeted sites of the factions, and information about casualties, also the return of shelling to Daraa came after hours of relative calm, in the wake of violent clashes and intense shelling by tens of artillery and rocket shells by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them on the eastern and northeastern countryside of Daraa, which caused a massive displacement of citizens towards areas away from the shelling and fighting, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored within the past 48 hours of military operations the displacement of about 12500 people from the villages and towns of Bosr al-Harir, Eastern Mleha, Western Mleha, al-Hrak, Msikah, Asim, al-Shomarah, al-Shayyah, and al-Bostan in the eastern countryside of Daraa, amid fears of the increase of displacement due to the military operations east of the province, after the failure of the international parties in finding a solution to the situation of the Syrian south, with the continued stubbornness of the Iranian forces, their allies,  and the gunmen supported by them; in withdrawing from the area according to the regional and international conditions imposed to achieve the solution in the Syrian south.