The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

At least 32 casualties and injuries in the continuous air raids and artillery shelling at the outskirts of the capital Damascus and its Eastern Ghouta

The Eastern Ghouta witnesses the continuation of shelling on its areas, with the shelled area gets wider each time, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the warplanes targeting areas in the Eastern Ghouta again, they bombed areas in Douma city with 3 missiles, which caused the death of a citizen and injured 4 others, raising to 32 at least, the number of children, women, youth and men who were killed and injured today due to about 12 raids carried out by warplanes targeted the eastern Ghouta and neighbourhood of Jobar in Damascus, which targeted the towns and cities of Douma, Harasta, Saqba, KafrBatna, Hamuriya as well as Jobar neighbourhood, no information about casualties until now some of the wounded are still in serious condition, also the regime forces shelled areas in Ein Tarma town and the outskirts of Jobar neighborhood with 8 artillery shells and 6 missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, which caused more destruction to the infrastructure, buildings and citizens’ property, amid the fall of a shell on area in Beit Al-Marj town which caused material damage.

The Syrian Observatory for Human rights published hours ago that violent explosions rocked again the eastern parts of the capital Damascus and its Eastern Ghouta, caused by continuation of warplanes to target the area, in which the warplanes carried out two raids that targeted Harasta city, followed by two raids targeted areas in Saqba city as well as a raid on Kafr Batna town, the warplanes also carried out 4 raids on areas in Jobar neighborhood of Damascus and other areas in the east of Damascus, which caused material damage, and breaking out of fire in the properties of the citizens in the targeted areas, and areas of Otaya as well as other areas in the Eastern Ghouta were shelled by the regime forces by artillery shells, which caused material damage, and the ground and aerial shelling resulted in the fall of a number of injuries.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 26th of September 2017, that 4 citizens were killed as a result of raids by the warplanes on Douma city which is controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta, they are the first casualties to be killed by air strikes since the end of July 2017, in which these raids come after two months of being the warplanes away from the sky of the Eastern Ghouta, and the raids has stopped since the end of July 2017, on the cities and the towns of the Eastern Ghouta, after killing and injuring tens of citizens by raids by the warplanes on Arbin and the cities and the towns of the Eastern Ghouta, which followed an agreement to decrease the escalation which didn’t last against the successive violations to the agreement which was carried out between Russia and representatives of the factions in the Eastern Ghouta, in the 22nd of September 2017.