Forces of the de facto authority affiliated with the Damascus government launched a large-scale terrorist and brutal attack, employing heavy and medium weaponry, including tanks, heavy artillery, Grad and Katyusha rocket launchers, mortar shells, and DShK heavy machine guns of various types.

📍 Targeted areas:
Residential neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh, and Bani Zaid.

👥 Civilian context:
These areas are densely populated civilian neighborhoods, home to more than 600,000 civilians.

❗ Legal assessment:
This attack constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law, as it involved the deliberate targeting of inhabited civilian areas with weapons of wide destructive capacity.

Between 6–7 January 2026, civilians were killed and injured as a result of heavy shelling carried out against the residential neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh, and Bani Zaid by armed factions affiliated with the Damascus government, some of which had previously participated in the coastal and Suwayda massacres.

The bombardment heavily targeted most areas of the three neighborhoods, particularly:
• Al-Jazeera Laundry area
• Farouj Ammar
• Al-Hassan Mosque
• Sheikh Maqsoud Grand Mosque
• Furniture Street in Ashrafieh
• 15th Street
• 20th Street
• Martyrs’ Square
• Al-Shaqeef
• Youth Housing area
• Ma‘rouf neighborhood

Dozens of homes and buildings sustained severe damage as a result of artillery shells and rockets directly striking residential structures.

🔴 Recorded Toll (as of this report):
• 8 civilians killed
• 52 civilians injured
• At least 300 homes damaged
• Dozens of service and medical facilities affected

These attacks constitute a direct targeting of populated civilian neighborhoods, amounting to a fully constituted war crime and a grave violation of International Humanitarian Law.

🕯️ Documented Names of the Deceased (list ongoing):
1. Fatima Hammadeh / 41 years
2. Masoud Faeq Abdo / 30 years
3. George Khawam / 42 years
4. Sabri Mohammad Abdul Qader
5. Souzan Al-Muhtadi – Employee at the Directorate of Agriculture
6. Dima Dweidari – Employee at the Directorate of Agriculture

🩺 Documented Injured Civilians:
1. Ivan Abdo / 2 years
2. Sham Dallo / 3 years
3. Sharif Seydo / 52 years
4. Mohammad Habib / 82 years
5. Aslan Bakr / 18 years
6. Ali Aslan Muslim Bilal / 17 years
7. Sharafan Abdo Mamo / 17 years
8. Hassan Mohammad Eid Qurtan / 30 years
9. Mohammad Sheikh Kilo / 70 years
10. Ramzi Kilo / 18 years
11. Mohammad Hussein Bakr / 23 years
12. Khadija Alloush / 47 years
13. Shiro Mohammad Hussein / 44 years
14. Mohammad Nour Shoubak / 26 years
15. Mohammad Eibesh / 21 years
16. Hamid Habash / 74 years
17. Ibrahim Mohammad Rashid / 34 years
18. Hevin Omar / 29 years
19. Dima Al-Hussein / 85 years
20. Mustafa Abdul Hamid Hassan / 38 years
21. Arslan Allo / 75 years
22. Rifaat Mohammad Allo / 64 years
23. Masoud Ali Karko / 18 years
24. Abdul Aziz Dawoud / 24 years
25. Rajab Abdul Fattah / 13 years
26. Nouri Khalil / 29 years
27. Nouri Jamal Hussein
28. Delbrin Hamdoush
29. Jihad Salah Nasser
30. Basel Sharif Al-Ali
31. Mohammad Zakaria Mardalli
32. Orhan Samo

🕊️ Mercy to the martyrs, and a swift recovery to the wounded.