At the morning of Tuesday 2 July 2013, Kafr Batana city was extensively bombed by government forces. The attacks targeted areas in the city center in a widespread and systematic manner as the market was targeted resulting in the killing of 15 persons of the city families including five children and two women in addition to no less than 50 injured most of them are children and women. Most of the injuries were serious.
Kafr Batna city is besieged completely by government forces which ban delivering of medicine and food supplies like all cities and towns of Eastern Ghouta.