More than 120 airstrikes target Yarmouk Basin and raise the death toll in the area to more than 32 casualties about half of them are children and female citizens
Daraa Province, the Syrian Observatory for human rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of aerial, missile, and ground bombardments and shelling on the western countryside of Daraa, targeting areas controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization and in the detail monitored by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the number of airstrikes since the dawn of today, Saturday, the 21st of July 2018 increased to more than 120 airstrikes, targeted al-Shajra, Hayt, Tasil, Jellin, Sahm al-Golan, Adwan, Tal al-Jumou’, and the Libyan Company, accompanied by tens of strikes by rocket and artillery shells and missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, which caused destruction in the property of citizens and infrastructure, also the continued shelling has killed more citizens, raising to at least 32 including 11 children and 3 female citizens, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation and because there are missing people.
This intense bombardment coincides with violent clashes between the regime forces supported by the gunmen loyal to them against Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization, in places in the vicinity of areas controlled by the last mentioned in Yarmouk Basin in the western countryside of Daraa, amid exchange of targeting and intense shelling by the regime forces on sites controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which caused more human casualties, after 13 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed in the past hours, 8 of them were killed in a booby-trapped vehicle explosion.
The Syrian Observatory also published yesterday Friday, that These insane bombardments and shelling also come with the continuation of fears for lives of more than 30000 civilians taken as human shields by Jaysh Khalid, where the civilians continue to flee the towns which are under Russian holocaust in the area, towards border areas with the occupied Syrian Golan, and the Syrian Observatory published last night that the controlled areas of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization, in Yarmouk Basin in the western sector of Daraa countryside, witnessed more destruction as a result of the ongoing intensive shelling on the area, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the regime forces continued their shelling in the hours of today’s evening, Thursday the 19th of July 2018, while the towns of Jilin, Tasil and Saham Al-Golan, witnessed substantial destruction as a result of the bombardment by warplanes and helicopters as well as the rocket and artillery shelling by the regime force and gunmen loyal to them and the factions before they joined to the “reconciliations”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored bombardment by helicopters targeting areas in Jilin town and the Libyan Company as well as other places in Yarmouk Basin, amid shelling by the regime forces on places in Jilin town and the Libyan Company as well as the areas of Tell Ashtara and Al-Mzayri’a, also the warplanes targeted areas in Saham Al-Golan town, without information about human losses, in the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored violent clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization, in areas in the vicinity of Jilin town and Tell Ashtara at the eastern outskirts of the controlled areas of the army which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization, and reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that 11 members at least of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, were killed in this attack which they carried out in order to achieve advancement, after they managed to take the control of the entire controlled areas of the opposition factions in Daraa province, whether through “reconciliations” or through military operations, and the violent fighting and the exchange of shelling also resulted in the fall of other human losses of casualties and wounded, in the ranks of the both parties.