Daraya: Local Council of Daraya City
Media Centre – Daily Report

Headlines: Seven martyrs and a number of injuries; FSA destroy one tank and damages another; 32 days of shelling and siege; demonstration amid destruction

Assad forces are still desperately seeking to storm Daraya for a 28th day in a row.
Fierce battles took place between the FSA and the Assad gangs on several fronts especially around the eastern and southern entrances to the city, and the western entrance, which is connected to Almuaddamiya city which is also facing storming attempts.
Daraya Martyrs Battalion, along with other supporting groups, were able to repel all these attacks. They also damaged a tank and inflicted heavy losses in the ranks of the Assad gangs.
Other battles were fought near Abu Salah Square and up to Alhikmeh School. FSA fighters destroyed one tank and caused heavy losses in men and equipment to the Assad forces.
Brutal bombardment of the city’s residential areas and civilian houses using rocket launchers and heavy artillery continued for the 32nd day in a row. As a result, four people were martyred and others were injured.
Another three people from Daraya were martyred in neighbouring towns including a man and a woman who died in the explosion that took place yesterday in Jedaidat Artouz Alfadl.
*** Today’s martyrs and their pictures
1. Muhammad Alqareh, by shelling
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=188272067963972&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
2. Muhammad Fayyad Adela, by shelling
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=188275807963598&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
3. Alaa Zaheer Yahya, by shelling
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=188279157963263&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
4. Muhammad Zahra, of previously-inflicted wounds
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=188285301295982&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
5. Sahdi Hallaq, Explosion at Jedaidat Artouz Alfadl
6. Yasmeen Hallaq, Explosion at Jedaidat Artouz Alfadl
7. Ratib Sreim (Abu Mahmoud), died in the town of Zakia by sniper’s shot, originally from Daraya
The people who are still in Daraya went out on a demonstration despite their suffering, despite the shelling and despite the siege. The protest called for the fall of the Assad gang and chanted for the martyrs and in support of the FSA. Protesters also requested FSA brigades in neighbouring towns to support the city of Daraya.
*** Humanitarian situation
The humanitarian situation of people remaining inside Daraya is increasingly getting worse.
The city is still isolated from the outside world due to power and communication cuts which have lasted for 37 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 a sniper hiding inside homes around Alhikmeh School
• A number of soldiers including a sniper 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, Daraya Martyrs Battalion damage tank tower and kill those driving it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFsULAOKCUA
Important, Assad tanks shelling residential neighbourhoods and civilian homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLesM9uQu_w
Important, a whole building collapses due to ruthless bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c79kjB98uo
Assad’s planes flying over Daraya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K49e3L7pt0E
Assad tanks bombing residential buildings Daraya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQJQsJUM4B0
Thick smoke caused by bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAE3l3i1AU
The last moments of Martyr Muhammad Zahra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMrPP_3Nj8
Burial of Martyr Mohammed Yousef Alqareh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_aG3BKl-4E
Photo of the demonstration held by the remaining people of the city
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=188265467964632&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
Photo Album, patients in the field hospital injured by regime’s shelling
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.188271647964014.15154.178176988973480&type=1
Photo Album, destruction caused by incessant bombing
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.188333047957874.15156.178176988973480&type=1