People demonstrate demanding Zahra Alloush to release the prisoners held by Jaysh al- Islam

 

SOHR received a footage shows dozens of citizens, including children and women, demonstrating in the city of Saqba in the Eastern Ghouta against Jaysh al- Islam and its leader Zahran Alloush, and demanding to release the detainees held by Jaysh al- Islam. The demonstrators were chanting “topple Zahran Alloush, death and no humiliation and we want the prisoners.” The footage also shows a man saying “O sheikh Zahra we are our brothers and sons, do you satisfy that our women demonstrate in the street and none of them but to have a martyr in her family, a detainee held by the mean Bashar al- Asad and his supports or a detainee in your jails. Fears Allah in those women. For Allah and for this holy month (Ramadan), do not make fitnah in the Eastern Ghouta. The regime gloats us; 1 kilo of sugar costs 3500SP and 1 kilo of rice costs 2000SP. You sent a committee 6 months ago to al- Masjed al- Kabir (the big mosque) to inform us that you have crop of wheat for the next two years but 1 kilo of wheat cost more than 1000SP. We have demonstrated and revolted against oppression, against Bashar al- Assad, and we still against him. We are not against you O Zahra, we are brothers and as one family in the Eastern Ghouta”, one of the demonstrators interrupted the old man saying “yesterday, they will distribute 3 kilos of wheat in the Eastern Ghouta and all people will hold their tongues”.

 

In early February, reliable sources informed SOHR that al- Islam Army and al- Nusra Front carried out a campaign of raid and arrest against some posts of Islamist and rebel factions in the city of Saqba in the Eastern Ghouta on charge of being “mischief- makers”. The sources confirmed that clashes and mutual firing took place between the two sides leading to injure and kill some members. They also seized weapons, ammunitions and food from some of these posts.