Daraya: #Local_Council_of_Daraya_City
#Daily_News_Roundup: Field, Medical and Humanitarian Situation in #Daraya, Damascus
31/12/2013
***Headlines***
Residential areas shelled by artillery; small and medium arm clashes; more than one year of siege has left all life necessities scarce
*** Recent developments on the ground***
On the last day of 2013, regime forces resumed their shelling of the city using heavy artillery after a day of explosive-barrel bombing. Several artillery shells fired from the Fourth Division Mountains hit city east while warplanes and helicopters conducted overflights over the city.
Medium and small arms were used in clashes between FSA fighters and Assad’s forces on the eastern and south-eastern fronts.
***Humanitarian and living conditions***
The besieged people of Daraya have been suffering for over a year amidst a total lack of humanitarian, medical and food supplies. Over 6,000 civilians including 600 children and 50 new born babies are living inside the siege. The people have been surviving on whatever vegetables or herbs they can get. Unfortunately, large proportions of crops have been damaged by the current wave of frost. As a result, the siege is becoming ever more life-threatening due to hunger, cold and daily shelling including explosive barrels.
***Videos***
Daraya 31/12/2013: Shuhada Al Islam Brigade seizes control of new regime-controlled points
https://youtu.be/nUhe3dHSWbM
Daraya: the suffering of children caught inside the siege
https://youtu.be/uD_wqBAW_kA
Daraya 31/12/2013: Black smoke billowing from one of the factories east of the city
https://youtu.be/BJ7Z58Lzi5E
#Daily_News_Roundup: Field, Medical and Humanitarian Situation in #Daraya, Damascus
31/12/2013
***Headlines***
Residential areas shelled by artillery; small and medium arm clashes; more than one year of siege has left all life necessities scarce
*** Recent developments on the ground***
On the last day of 2013, regime forces resumed their shelling of the city using heavy artillery after a day of explosive-barrel bombing. Several artillery shells fired from the Fourth Division Mountains hit city east while warplanes and helicopters conducted overflights over the city.
Medium and small arms were used in clashes between FSA fighters and Assad’s forces on the eastern and south-eastern fronts.
***Humanitarian and living conditions***
The besieged people of Daraya have been suffering for over a year amidst a total lack of humanitarian, medical and food supplies. Over 6,000 civilians including 600 children and 50 new born babies are living inside the siege. The people have been surviving on whatever vegetables or herbs they can get. Unfortunately, large proportions of crops have been damaged by the current wave of frost. As a result, the siege is becoming ever more life-threatening due to hunger, cold and daily shelling including explosive barrels.
***Videos***
Daraya 31/12/2013: Shuhada Al Islam Brigade seizes control of new regime-controlled points
https://youtu.be/nUhe3dHSWbM
Daraya: the suffering of children caught inside the siege
https://youtu.be/uD_wqBAW_kA
Daraya 31/12/2013: Black smoke billowing from one of the factories east of the city
https://youtu.be/BJ7Z58Lzi5E