Discontent in Damascus due to Russian Police-Regime Forces Tension

Discontent in Damascus due to Russian Police-Regime Forces Tension
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Discontent in Damascus due to Russian Police-Regime Forces Tension

Discontent in Damascus due to Russian Police-Regime Forces Tension

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) revealed Thursday that there is rage and discontent among the regime supporters due to a tension between the Russian and Syrian forces by which its consequences haven’t ended yet. The reason behind the tension is that members of the Russian military police attacked an officer in the regime forces and other members in Babbila.

Meanwhile, the southern part of the capital Damascus is witnessing continued violent clashes between terrorist ISIS members and regime forces who are supported by militiamen loyal to them from Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities.

This is taking place in areas of Yarmouk Camp and the areas between it and Al-Hajar al-Aswad and in Al-Tadamon neighborhood, where the fighting between both parties is accompanied by intensive shelling from the regime forces on ISIS controlled areas, which caused further destruction amid raids by warplanes on the same areas, in an attempt by each party to further advance at the expense of the other side.

This ongoing fighting in south of Damascus left a lot of human casualties on both sides, where SOHR monitored the rise of human losses in the ranks of the both parties.

Since Thursday the 19th of April 2018 the number of losses reached up to 227 persons from regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, while at least 212 ISIS members have been also killed in the shelling and clashes that further left tens of wounded in the ranks of the both parties.

The death toll is expected to rise because of the continued combat operations and the presence of injured cases who are in critical situation.

The Syrian Observatory published Thursday that it monitored the regime forces being able to advance with the support of their allies, and forcing the organization to withdraw from the remaining areas it used to control in al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood, where the regime forces imposed their control over the entire neighborhood of al-Hajar al-Aswad.



WHO Sends Over 1 Mln Polio Vaccines to Gaza to Protect Children 

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
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WHO Sends Over 1 Mln Polio Vaccines to Gaza to Protect Children 

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)

The World Health Organization is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples, its chief said on Friday.

"While no cases of polio have been recorded yet, without immediate action, it is just a matter of time before it reaches the thousands of children who have been left unprotected," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an opinion piece in Britain's The Guardian newspaper.

He wrote that children under five were most at risk from the viral disease, and especially infants under two since normal vaccination campaigns have been disrupted by more than nine months of conflict.

Poliomyelitis, which is spread mainly through the fecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Cases of polio have declined by 99% worldwide since 1988 thanks to mass vaccination campaigns and efforts continue to eradicate it completely.

Israel's military said on Sunday it would start offering the polio vaccine to soldiers serving in the Gaza Strip after remnants of the virus were found in test samples in the enclave.

Besides polio, the UN reported last week a widespread increase in cases of Hepatitis A, dysentery and gastroenteritis as sanitary conditions deteriorate in Gaza, with sewage spilling into the streets near some camps for displaced people.