On August 1st 2012, Syrian regime forces supported by its thugs stormed Jdeidet al-Fadel neighborhood in Damascus suburb and and the first statistics of the number of martyrs of civilians exceeded 500 between a child and an old women.
The inhabitants of the small neighborhood- one of the first neighborhoods to revolt against the Assad regime- paid a heavy price as a result of the failure of the neighbors in Khan al-Sheheh to support them and because of the brutality of the regime that 150 young men with their weapons could not fight back. For about a week, regime bombed the area from the 10th Division in the city of Qatna and 101th Regiment directly overlooking the neighborhood.
The shelling destroyed most of the houses of the poor neighborhood inhabited by the families of the 1967 Golan refugees and citizens from the other poor provinces. Civilians were slaughtered with knives in the worst massacre in the country and the western countryside of Damascus.
Slaughtering civilians was accompanied by looting their property by regime and tanks destroyed cars of civilians. The regime campain on the neighborhood lasted until the next day and placed barriers at the entrances and began to show the brutal images saying those killed were armed gangs.
Some residents said that the actual number of martyrs exceeded 1500 martyrs, and the story of the regime after about a month of the massacre confirms this when it announced through its media the existence of a mass grave in the neighborhood, and the people confirmed that they were buried by bulldozer during the brutal campaign on the neighborhood.
Some of the families who managed to escape were pursued elsewhere. Many of the neighborhood youths who were detained at checkpoints were taken to unknown places of detention, some of whom handed over their ID cards after being liquidated in Assad's prisons.
