The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The stop of entering the aid to the besieged Ghouta by the regime authorities results in returning the death of citizens due to the malnutrition and the lack of medicine

The Eastern Ghouta hunger revolution fails to save citizens and children from death and the drop of their health conditions due to the malnutrition

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces punish the Eastern Ghouta again, after they had indulged with the besieged factions and the residents of the Eastern Ghouta, in order to attract the latest to ceasefire, by the entry of food and humanitarian aid, thus, the end of July 2017, was the last date of last batch of food according to the timing of the Damascus regime, so the regime forces closed the outlets of Al-Ghouta to the world, and let them besieged have no hope for incoming assistance or future breakthrough, after the ceasefire was obstructed by violations carried out by the regime itself.

The Eastern Ghouta hunger revolution didn’t achieve its objectives for those who carried it out, and the disease started to fiercely attack their bodies, while the bits that the attackers have sacked from warehouses of the stored food could not repel the disease attack, thus, the delay of the food and medicine, even by storing it local councils and the Relief Organizations inside the besieged Al-Ghouta, or by preventing the entry of any aid by the regime forces since about 3 months, resulted in the lack of foodstuffs stored by citizens, and the high prices in a crazy way in the markets where they are available.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored during the past 24 hours, the return of deaths due to the malnutrition and, lack of medicine and the shortage of treatment needed for the emergency, in which a child in Mudayra town died as a result of the drop of his health condition and the lack of medicine, then and after few hours a child girl from Kafr Batna town died for similar reasons, while many other children and citizens are still suffer from bad health conditions that need to immediate medicine and treatment.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored on the 20th of October 2017, that an unprecedented situation of attacking by hundreds of Syrian citizens in the besieged Eastern Ghouta on warehouses contain stored foodstuffs, and in the details monitored and obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: about 2000 citizens attacked a warehouse of the Unified Relief Office in Hammuriyyeh town in the Eastern Ghouta, where the citizens took a ton and a half of the stored food, also the Syrian Observatory learned that tens of people attacked after midnight of yesterday a warehouse of Rif Dimashq Province in Hammuriyyeh town, where the warehouse contains 80 tons of sugar, which is almost lost from the markets in the Eastern Ghouta.

These attacks on food warehouses which are the first of their kind and an unprecedented situation; came after the stop of entering food aid for about 3 months to the Eastern Ghouta, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored on the 24th of July 2017 the entry of the last batch of foodstuffs to the Eastern Ghouta via al-Wafidin Camp, after paying a large bribe to the checkpoints around the Eastern Ghouta in order to allow the aid to entered to the Eastern Ghouta, also the Syrian Observatory’s local sources confirmed that the citizens’ attack on the warehouses in Hammuriyyeh town –controlled by Rahman Corps– came as a result of not provide the citizens with ration materials or the goods that are missing in the markets of the Eastern Ghouta, despite the stop of entering the humanitarian aid.