More casualties raise to at least 100, the number of citizens, factions’ fighters and regime members who were killed in 8 days of stepping up the shelling and clashes
Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the number of casualties is still increasing in Daraa province as a result of the continued targeting by the Russian warplanes and helicopters, to Daraa city and its eastern, northern and north-western countryside, where it rose to 6, the number of casualties who were killed in the raids on Abtaa and Nawa, they are 5 casualties including a citizen woman were killed in Nawa city, and one other casualty was killed in Abtaa town, raising to 38 citizens at least including a woman and her son, in addition to 7 women and 2 child girls, as well as 2 members of the civil defense, the number of citizens whose death has been documented by the SOHR as a result of the aerial, artillery and rocket shelling by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them on several villages and towns in Daraa countryside, since the 19th of June 2018, also it rose to 33 at least, the number of members of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them including officers who were killed in the shelling and clashes during the same period, in Daraa countryside, while the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 29 fighters at least of the rebel and Islamic factions whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory in the aerial and ground shelling and violent clashes, and information about more human losses in the ranks of the both parties, as a result of the presence of injured cases in serious conditions and there is information about missing persons whose destiny is not known until now.
This death toll is coincided with the continuation of the regime forces with the Russian warplanes to target Daraa province, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored shelling by the regime forces by more than 15 missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, which targeted areas in Daraa city, along with the airstrikes by warplanes on the city, which targeted the contact lines between the regime forces and the factions operating in Daraa city, amid the continuation of clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against the fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions, in several areas in Daraa countryside, where the SOHR monitored that the clashes were concentrated in the vicinity of the airbase which is located in the south of Daraa city, in an attempt by the regime forces to reach the Jordanian border and separate between the factions’ controlled areas in the Eastern countryside of Daraa and its western countryside, after they managed today morning, Tuesday, to separate Al-Lajat area and its vicinity from the rest areas controlled by the factions through taking the control of Bosr Al-Harir and Maliha Al-Atash towns, and the clashes were coincided with intensive exchange of targeting, amid renewed bombardment by warplanes on Al-Musayfirah, Al-Karak Al-Sharqi and other areas in the eastern countryside of Daraa, which caused further material damage and destruction of the infrastructure.
The Syrian Observatory published this morning, that the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were able in the evening to control the strategic towns of Bosr al-Harir and Mlehat al-Atash in the eastern countryside of Daraa, where this control enabled them to connect Izra’a city with al-Suwaidaa Province, in addition to isolating the northeastern countryside of Daraa, but it is not known until the moment whether the areas north of Bosr al-Harir still have faction fighters. This control operation came with intense cover of fire during the last few days of hundreds of airstrikes by Russian warplanes and helicopters, in addition to the violent and heavy missile shelling using hundreds of missiles and shells, and the regime forces on Monday were able to achieve more advancement within al-Lajat area and expanded their control to 7 villages, where the regime forces seek to control the entire area located in the northeastern countryside of Daraa.