Syria: 13 dead in new shelling on Ghouta in eastern

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Thursday, 22-feb-2018 04:30

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Thirteen civilians were killed Thursday in new bombardments of the regime on the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta near Damascus, reported on Thursday, the syrian Observatory Human rights (OSDH).

“At least 13 people including three children were killed in Duma”, the main city of the Ghouta oriental, said the OSDH. At least 120 civilians were injured in the whole of Ghouta.

“It was raining in the area, this is why there has been no air raids. The regime has opted for the shells and rockets” to bombard the stronghold of a rebel, said the director of the OSDH, Rami Abdel Rahmane.

“The rockets have not stopped this morning. About 200 rockets have hit the only Duma”,-he said.

The regime has been carrying out since Sunday, a bombing campaign, devastating on the enclave, which it besieges from 2013. At least 335 civilians were killed including dozens of children.

During the same period, 15 people have been killed by the fall of Damascus, the regime stronghold, with shells and rockets fired by islamist rebels or jihadists since the Ghouta, according to the State media and the OSDH.

According to a newspaper close to the government of Bashar al-Assad, this new bombing campaign on the Ghouta east is a prelude to a ground offensive plan.

Before the Ghouta orientale, several rebel areas, like the old city of Homs in 2012 or Aleppo in 2016, have been crushed by the bombardment, and a seat suffocating to force the fighters in anti-regime to lay down their arms and civilians to flee.