Media Centre – Daily Report
December 12, 2012
Headlines: Another appalling massacre; twelve martyrs; Seven air raids; FSA destroy two tanks and three armoured vehicles; 30 days of shelling and siege; humanitarian situation deteriorates

The city of Daraya woke up to the noise of MiG and Sukhoi fighters and the blasts of massive explosions caused by heavy bombing on civilian neighbourhoods, markets and places of worship. Seven raids were recorded throughout the day.
Meanwhile, Assad forces committed a heinous crime against dozens of civilians who were performing their Zuhr prayer at Abu Bakr Assideek Mosque. The mosque was the target of artillery shelling which led to the death of 8 martyrs, including 4 from one family, and more than 35 injuries.
Assad forces are still desperately seeking to storm Daraya for a 26th day in a row.
Fierce battles took place between the FSA and the Assad gangs on several fronts especially around the western entrance to the city, which is connected to Almuaddamiya city, as well as the southern and eastern entrances.
Daraya Martyrs Battalion, along with other supporting groups, were able to repel all these attacks. They destroyed a tank and three BMP vehicles and inflicted heavy losses in the ranks of the Assad gangs.
Other battles were fought near Abu Salah Square and up to Alhikmeh School and alzaarour nursery. The Daraya Martyrs Battalion have been able to destroy a T72 tank and cause great losses in men for the Assad forces.
Brutal bombardment of the city’s residential areas and civilian houses using rocket launchers and heavy artillery continued for the 30th day in a row. As a result, three people were martyred and others were injured.
*** Today’s martyrs
1- Motei Muaddamani
2- Muneer Muaddamani
3- Muhammad Muaddamani
4- Nabeel Muaddamani
5- Mahmoud Alkhuli
6- Maamoun Ghabbash (Abu Ziad)
7- Fadi Albayyad
8- Sabri Saleem Alssabi
9- Ibrahim Almasri
10- Abdulmajeed Nizar Shamashan
11- Badr Abdullateef Allaham
12- Ahmad Kheiro (originally from Aleppo)
*** Humanitarian situation
The humanitarian situation of people remaining inside Daraya and people who escaped is increasingly getting worse.
The city is still isolated from the outside world due to power and communication cuts for 34 days.
The need for heating fuel (a.k.a Mazot) has become all the more desperate with the advance of winter and falling temperatures.
Food and medical supplies are also in acute shortage amid deafening silence by human rights and relief organizations.

Assad gangs are located in these areas
• A number of soldiers including snipers hiding inside homes around Alhikmeh School
• A number of soldiers including snipers hiding inside homes near the Police Station
• Along Sahnaya –Jedaideh Road which runs alongside Daraya
• Aldahadeel Road between Hammam Alqishani and Alsalam Mosque
• Around Alothman Mosque
• Around Wahab Mosque
• Snipers spread in the vicinity the above areas targeting any moving body.

Links to videos and photos that document part of the situation in Daraya today
Important, MiG fighter jets firing rockets against civilian homes part 1
https://youtu.be/411qXlo-Vl8
Important, MiG fighter jets firing rockets against civilian homes part 2
https://youtu.be/3cSN1BmJHGo
Important, massacre of worshipers inside Abu Bakr Assideek Mosque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCuQX3Jfk70
Important, the massacre of Abu Bakr Assideek Mosque by MiG fighters
https://youtu.be/GvkuE6Fuxyw
Important, burial of the martyrs of the Abu Bakr Mosque massacre
https://youtu.be/vkwCRzeVcV8
The result of barbaric bombing using MiG fighters against civilian homes
https://youtu.be/WytQkhEys3Y
Mass destruction on Ghiath Matar Street "previously Almuaddamiya" caused by shelling
https://youtu.be/o4s5py97aUs
Massive destruction in the Ashamyat street and the main road caused by shelling
https://youtu.be/7YVBCBpqXS0
Massive destruction in the Ashamyat Street caused by shelling
https://youtu.be/H6mTmGC6M-Q
Martyr Abdulmajeed Nizar Shamashan
https://youtu.be/RaG24k2AG1I
Shahid Badr Abdullatif Allaham
https://youtu.be/sW0vAKysstA
Field hospital, and attemptto save Martyr Badr Allaham
https://youtu.be/g1VEDGmH3E4
Important, homes burning after being bombed
https://youtu.be/9z4chgwyFOY
The remains of rockets dropped by MiGs
https://youtu.be/S5mbXSV1on4
Civilian homes after bombing by MiGs
https://youtu.be/AbUDdkF5A28
Darya, every new day brings destruction anew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifhak3Xqh4
A surgical procedure for a person hit by a sniper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtlkgXsEIGs
Photo Album, destruction at Abu Bakr Mosque caused by bombing
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.187897491334763.15130.178176988973480&type=1
Photo album, Abu Bakr Mosque massacre
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.187838014674044.15118.178176988973480&type=1