Daraya: Local Council of Daraya City
Media Centre – Daily Report
December 21, 2012
Headlines: New military reinforcements sent in an attempt to storm the city; demonstration despite the suffering; 34 days of shelling, destruction and siege; 5 martyrs and a number of injuries.
Assad’s forces deployed new reinforcements in yet another attempt to storm the city of Daraya. Reinforcements included 10 tanks, 3 BMP vehicles, 4 DShK machinegun vehicles, 1 Zil Truck, 10 troop-carrying vehicles including cars and buses. The new forces attempted to advance towards the city via Damascus road.
Fierce battles broke out between the FSA and regime forces along Damascus road and reached the Old Corniche and its surrounding area.
Daraya Martyrs Battalion were able to repel the attacks and force the Assad gangs to retreat under their strong blows. A number of Assad’s forces were able to sneak into Alibaa Alarabi School under intense artillery bombardment.
Other battles broke out along the south-eastern, southern and western fronts. The heroes of the FSA stood their ground and prevented Assad’s forces from advancing. They also inflicted heavy losses in the Assad army.
FSA seized the estate of Dureid Alassad (Bashar’s cousin). Inside the estate, shoes ‘made in Israel’ were found.
Alongside the battles, artillery, tanks and rocket launchers continued to shell the city’s neighbourhoods. The shelling is part of Assad’s policy to destroy the revolting cities.
Assad’s forces are still committing one massacre after another against the city’s inhabitants. Today, five people including a woman were killed under the barbaric shelling.
*** Today’s martyrs
1. Nahla Deeb Jadian
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189895997801579&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
2. Fidaa Kikiha
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189895727801606&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
3. Abed Jamaleddine
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189938587797320&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
4. Muhammad Assayiad
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189937291130783&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
5. Muhammad Salman Kholani (Abu Bassam)
The people of the city stressed their defiance for the regime by staging a demonstration that started after the Friday prayer. The demonstrators chanted in praise of the FSA, demanded the fall of the regime, and called FSA brigades in neighbouring cities to support Daraya against the regime.
*** Humanitarian situation
The humanitarian situation is increasingly getting worse for the people of Daraya, whether they are still inside or displaced outside the city.
The city is still isolated from the outside world due to power and communication cuts which have lasted for 43 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 shameful silence by human rights and relief organizations.
Assad gangs are located in these areas
• A number of soldiers including a sniper hiding inside Alibaa Alarabi School.
• A number of soldiers including a sniper hiding inside homes around Alnakkashat area
• A number of soldiers including a sniper hiding inside homes near the Police Station
• A number of soldiers including a sniper hiding inside homes near the Graveyard square
• 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, demonstration of defiance on Friday 21/12/2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB8yaqbpVjU
- Important for media, tanks shelling the city in a desperate attempt to storm it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QQC9ovv84
- Important for media, clear video showing rocket launcher shelling Daraya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2WD1qlYEVo
- Important, Israeli-made shoes found in Duraid Alassad’s estate
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189930601131452&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
- Rocket launchers shelling Daraya from Al-Mazzeh military airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYibcHYX-E0
- An injured person undergoes a surgical operation in the abdomen at the field hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JR1pRjlK9k
- Important, trenches and barricades being set up around presidential palaces on Mount Qassioun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FSIiki01UM
- Daraya Martyrs Battalion, FSA stop an attack by the regime’s forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_5bVwpOw7A
- Farewell to martyr Muhammad Assayad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-htZMXw8ho
- Photo Album, demonstration of defiance, Friday 21/12/2012 “Victory written on the doors of Aleppo”
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.189880731136439.15282.178176988973480&type=1مشاهدة المزيد
Media Centre – Daily Report
December 21, 2012
Headlines: New military reinforcements sent in an attempt to storm the city; demonstration despite the suffering; 34 days of shelling, destruction and siege; 5 martyrs and a number of injuries.
Assad’s forces deployed new reinforcements in yet another attempt to storm the city of Daraya. Reinforcements included 10 tanks, 3 BMP vehicles, 4 DShK machinegun vehicles, 1 Zil Truck, 10 troop-carrying vehicles including cars and buses. The new forces attempted to advance towards the city via Damascus road.
Fierce battles broke out between the FSA and regime forces along Damascus road and reached the Old Corniche and its surrounding area.
Daraya Martyrs Battalion were able to repel the attacks and force the Assad gangs to retreat under their strong blows. A number of Assad’s forces were able to sneak into Alibaa Alarabi School under intense artillery bombardment.
Other battles broke out along the south-eastern, southern and western fronts. The heroes of the FSA stood their ground and prevented Assad’s forces from advancing. They also inflicted heavy losses in the Assad army.
FSA seized the estate of Dureid Alassad (Bashar’s cousin). Inside the estate, shoes ‘made in Israel’ were found.
Alongside the battles, artillery, tanks and rocket launchers continued to shell the city’s neighbourhoods. The shelling is part of Assad’s policy to destroy the revolting cities.
Assad’s forces are still committing one massacre after another against the city’s inhabitants. Today, five people including a woman were killed under the barbaric shelling.
*** Today’s martyrs
1. Nahla Deeb Jadian
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189895997801579&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
2. Fidaa Kikiha
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189895727801606&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
3. Abed Jamaleddine
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189938587797320&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
4. Muhammad Assayiad
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189937291130783&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
5. Muhammad Salman Kholani (Abu Bassam)
The people of the city stressed their defiance for the regime by staging a demonstration that started after the Friday prayer. The demonstrators chanted in praise of the FSA, demanded the fall of the regime, and called FSA brigades in neighbouring cities to support Daraya against the regime.
*** Humanitarian situation
The humanitarian situation is increasingly getting worse for the people of Daraya, whether they are still inside or displaced outside the city.
The city is still isolated from the outside world due to power and communication cuts which have lasted for 43 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 shameful silence by human rights and relief organizations.
Assad gangs are located in these areas
• A number of soldiers including a sniper hiding inside Alibaa Alarabi School.
• A number of soldiers including a sniper hiding inside homes around Alnakkashat area
• A number of soldiers including a sniper hiding inside homes near the Police Station
• A number of soldiers including a sniper hiding inside homes near the Graveyard square
• 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, demonstration of defiance on Friday 21/12/2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB8yaqbpVjU
- Important for media, tanks shelling the city in a desperate attempt to storm it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QQC9ovv84
- Important for media, clear video showing rocket launcher shelling Daraya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2WD1qlYEVo
- Important, Israeli-made shoes found in Duraid Alassad’s estate
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=189930601131452&set=a.178694942255018.13781.178176988973480&type=1&relevant_count=1
- Rocket launchers shelling Daraya from Al-Mazzeh military airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYibcHYX-E0
- An injured person undergoes a surgical operation in the abdomen at the field hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JR1pRjlK9k
- Important, trenches and barricades being set up around presidential palaces on Mount Qassioun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FSIiki01UM
- Daraya Martyrs Battalion, FSA stop an attack by the regime’s forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_5bVwpOw7A
- Farewell to martyr Muhammad Assayad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-htZMXw8ho
- Photo Album, demonstration of defiance, Friday 21/12/2012 “Victory written on the doors of Aleppo”
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.189880731136439.15282.178176988973480&type=1مشاهدة المزيد