Hezbollah and Assad terrorists targeted Ein al-Fijeh with surface-to-surface missiles and artillery shelling amid attempts to advance on the ground. Opposition fighters repelled the ground attack destroying two tanks and two armored vehicles.
The Wadi Barada valley, located 18 kilometers northwest of Damascus, has been under heavy bombing and artillery shelling by Hezbollah and Assad terrorists for the past 27 days. The attacks killed many civilians and caused widespread damage to property, including the vital Ein Al-Fijeh spring facility which provides over four million people in Damascus and its countryside with water.
Opposition-held villages of the valley have been under siege for months by Hezbollah and Assad regime. The humanitarian situation was already dire even before the recent offensive started 27 days ago.
In addition to the horrors of living under bombardment, people in the valley have to endure life without water, electricity or any means of communication including landlines, cell phones and the internet. The villages also face acute shortage of food, medicine and fuel due to the long siege.
A countrywide ceasefire in Syria was declared on Thursday (29 December 2016), after Turkey, Russia and opposition fighting groups reached a deal in the Turkish capital Ankara. According to the deal, Turkey and Russia would act as guarantor countries for the implementation of the ceasefire.
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