ALEPPO, Syria — Syrian regime forces continue to breach the cease-fire agreement with Syria’s armed opposition in Eastern Ghouta in Rif Dimashq province. The agreement was ratified in Cairo under Egyptian-Russian brokerage July 22. However, the Syrian regime targeted Ein Tarma town in Eastern Ghouta on Aug. 3 with 10 ground-to-ground local FIL missiles, killing a woman and child and wounding others. Meanwhile, four people were wounded when the city of Harasta in Eastern Ghouta was shelled with mortars on the same day.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that four people were killed and 13 others were wounded in Ein Tarma in Eastern Ghouta on Aug. 1 in the wake of the ground-to-ground shelling and air raids that targeted the town.

According to the Observatory, 25 civilians have been killed, including seven children and seven women, while 145 people have been injured since the cease-fire agreement went into effect July 22. Fierce battles between the regime forces and the armed opposition were raging while the shelling and air raids went on in Jobar neighborhood in the east of Damascus and in Ein Tarma, where the regime forces are trying to tighten their grip to cement the blockade on Eastern Ghouta.

The regime forces and militias supporting them launched June 19 their military campaign on Eastern Ghouta under the pretext of fighting members affiliated with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance of jihadi factions that include former al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra). It is noteworthy that all cease-fire deals between the armed opposition and the regime forces do not include Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Islamic State (IS). Despite its justifications, the Syrian regime’s intentions were clear to the citizens of Ghouta even before the cease-fire went into effect.