Airwars assessment
Between 42 and 70 civilians, including five women nine to 20 children were killed and between 24 and 250 others wounded in aerial and missile bombardments of Douma and nearby locations in eastern Ghouta, Damascus, according to multiple sources.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that shelling by the regime killed 38, including five women and nine children.
The White Helmets produced a summary of airstrikes in Hamouriya, Sakba, Kafrbatna and Jissrain but did not specify who the warplanes belonged to. It referred to a “deranged aerial and missile bombardment on residential neighbourhoods…in conjunction with the flight of military aircraft“. According to the summary, Hamouriya suffered both an air raid and a missile attack causing fires and destruction to civilian buildings. In total the White Helmets put the death toll at 41, including nine children killed “as a result of the bombing and military aviation, heavy artillery, rockets and cluster bombs and mortar shells at residential neighborhoods in the city.”
All4Syria said that Russia carried out the raids, killing and and wounding civilians. Local activists told the organisation that Russian warplanes dropped four missiles targeting neighbourhoods in the town of Hamouriya, killing three civilians and wounding others. They also said that Douma was bombarded with rockets and cluster bombs, killing a girl named as Dala’a Kassem Al Bisoani and wounding others. Ten children in total were injured – some critically – in a raid targeting a school in Kafr Batna. They also reported the fire at the warehouse in Sakba, which they said was targeted by regime forces with heavy artillery, reporting the injury of some civilians.
The Shaam News Network said Russian and regime warplanes were responsible, and that there had been more than 70 raids targeting civilians’ homes and schools. It put the death toll at 70 including more than 20 children, with 250 wounded – 30 of whom had lost limbs. A video posted by SNN was entitled “The Russian enemy turns schools into slaughterhouses of children“.
Douma, Samba, Jissrain, Ain Tarma, Zamalka, Jobar and Hamouriya were “all areas under risk of full annihilation,” SNN concluded, but the harshest massacres were in the city of Douma it said, which was targeted by the Russian aviation in a barrage of missiles and cluster bombs which hit a primary school and adjacent residential buildings.
Other sources also said that both Russia and the regime were responsible: the Douma Coordinating Committee put the death toll at more than 40, with dozens wounded. The Syrian Press Center said 46 died and more than 200 were wounded; Eldorar reported that 45 died, including children, dozens were injured and medical facilities were put out of service, blaming “warplanes” and the Assad regime; Madardaily quoted information supplied by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: at least 28 civilians killed, including two children and dozens wounded – in bombing by regime rockets cities in Douma and Sakba, adding that in the west of Damascus regime helicopters dropped 34 explosive barrels on the city of Darya, killing at five people, while at least eight, including a child died and 35 were injured when about 50 shells fell on areas of Damascus and its suburbs.
But Ennabbaldi stated that only the regime was responsible for the attacks, putting the total killed at 40.
White Helmets reported seven unidentified victims.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
- Tasnim Alsa’our Child named by White Helmets killed
- Rahaf Abdul Aziz Child named by White Helmets killed
- Marwa Saeed Ghazi Child named by White Helmets killed
- Ghaida al Salahi Child named by White Helmets killed
- Hadeel Hayrab Child named by White Helmets killed
- Noor Al Msalmanah Child named by White Helmets killed
- Maysa Al Madder Child named by White Helmets killed
- Rayyan Al Shawa Child named by White Helmets killed
- Fariss Al Hammouri Child named by White Helmets killed
- Ahmed Al Tabbakh Age unknown male named by White Helmets killed
- Mohammed Albawabiji Age unknown male named by White Helmets killed
- Mohammed Al Haffar Age unknown male named by White Helmets killed
- Mazen al Saleh Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Rateb Awad Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Yassin Awad Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Khadija Haroun Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Maher Kashoot Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Fariss Alaarot Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Ahmed Hanafi Age unknown male named by White Helmets killed
- Mohamed Ali Satoott Age unknown male named by White Helmets killed
- Khitam Hamid Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Ihsan al Mardini Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Iman Abdul Nafi’ Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Zakaria Humaid Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Faress Blalah Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Subhi Abboud Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Adnan Al Duj Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Alaa Hamad Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Fayez Ghazzawi Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Fayez Ghazzawi Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Mohammed Al Sheikh Bakri Age unknown male named by White Helmets killed
- Noor Al Huda Kaloot Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Mostafa Shishakli Age unknown male named by White Helmets killed
- Mohammed Khatib Age unknown male named by White Helmets killed
- Subhi Alsa’our Age unknown named by White Helmets killed
- Radwan Mohammad Age unknown the media activist, named by SNN killed
- Dala’a Kassem Al Bison Child named by All4Syria killed
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Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia is not known to have publicly released any information relating to its airstrikes in Syria between December 9th and December 14th 2015.