(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes killed more than 22 people, including 5 children and 2 women, in rebel-held city of Douma near Damascus, activists and Local Coordination Committees said on Friday.
Activists said air force strikes conducted 10 air strikes on the capital of Eastern Ghouta suburbs, killing 22 people, a day after the bloody Thursday where 24 people were killed by more than 25 air strikes on the embattled city.
Clerics of Douma demanded people to not recite Friday prayer, which is a weekly ritual, over fears of being hit by Assad's war planes. What might reduce the number of casualties, according to activists.
On Thursday, Bashar al-Assad’s air strikes killed 82 people, including 18 children and 11 fighters, in Eastern Ghouta following rocket attacks by Islam Army that hit the regime-controlled center of the capital, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The onservatory said the air force conducted 60 strikes on the Eastern Ghouta suburbs.
High death tolls from air attacks are not rare but the Observatory said the focused barrage was a response to rocket attacks by Islam Army insurgents on Thursday, which killed 10 people in Damascus.
Islam Army was formed by a merger of rebel factions in 2013 and has received backing from Saudi Arabia.
The United Nations says 220,000 people have been killed since 2011 in Syria's civil war, which started with peaceful protests against Assad.
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