The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After releasing 26 abductees and detained by Jaysh Al-Islam, a team of the Red Crescent evacuate the second batch of the besieged Eastern Ghouta of Damascus

The Syrian Observatory learned that the Red Crescent team evacuated the second batch of medical conditions from the besieged Eastern Ghouta of Damascus. In the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Red Crescent team evacuated 12 medical conditions from the Eastern Ghouta through Al-Wafdeen refugee camp, which links between Al-Ghouta and the regime-held areas. The evacuation is expected to be completed in the coming 48 hours, in which the last 3 prisoners will be handed over to the regime authorities and the Red Crescent team, and 12 medical conditions will also be released from the Eastern Ghouta, thus completing the exit of 58 people from the Eastern Ghouta, detainees and abductees, by Jaysh Al-Islam and the medical conditions from the Eastern Ghouta.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that it learned that Jaysh al-Islam released 26 people; they are 8 children, who are aged between 8 and 17 years old, 4 women and 14 man and young men, who have been detained by the Jaysh since the battles of Adra Al-Omalia, some of whom had been transferred from Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham prisons to the prisons of Jaysh Al-Islam following the battles between them in the Eastern Ghouta a few weeks ago. Reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the 26 persons were handed over through Al-Wafdeen refugee camp at the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, while Jaysh Al-Islam banned the media to cover this except for its close activists. Meanwhile, preparations are under way by the Red Crescent team and the regime authorities to evacuate the second batch of medical conditions from the besieged Eastern Ghouta to receive treatment in the hospitals of the capital Damascus, after the first batch of cases were taken out on Tuesday, while there is information about a second batch of 3 detainees, whose handing over was postponed until the completion of the evacuation of the medical conditions.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights made a statistic about the details in the humanitarian and medical situation in the Eastern Ghouta, in which the SOHR counted, through its activists, and with the help of medical sources in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, more than 720 medical cases including tens of children and citizen women, who need immediate evacuation, the evacuation which is ignored every time by the vehicles of the Red Crescent and the UN delegations accompany the humanitarian aid that enters the Eastern Ghouta, and leave without paying any attention as if they accomplished their mission perfectly, which provoked the patients and their families, who mocked at the aid transporters and supervisors saying that “they think they accomplished their mission and flood us with charities that are not enough for the inhabitants of one town of Al-Ghouta which suffers daily from starving”, and this talk of the patients and their family was confided by them through complaints to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and citizens continue their complaints saying “there are families have only one meal daily, which hardly satisfies their hunger amid the high prices caused by the warlords and sellers of goods who assigned imaginary prices in return for entering the food stuffs through the regime’s checkpoints widespread at the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, Do not they observe our heartache for our children and our families?!!, or they have not been struck yet by hunger and disease makes them weep upon their children?!!”

The medical sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the diseases are varied, in terms of their nature, level of progress, extent of distribution and the difficulty of being treated, as there are more than 500 patients have cancer, including more than 100 cases need immediate evacuation, due to the great drop of their conditions, also there are 59 cases, of who are believed to have cancer, are added to the 500 cases, in which the specialists of the center specialized in diagnosing and treating cancer in the Eastern Ghouta, failed to specify and diagnose their cases, due to the lack of necessary materials, and the stop of the laboratory for the same reasons, and there are more than 30 patients have the infecting tuberculosis, as well as the presence of about 25 cases of the kidney failure, and about 70 cases with varying diseases such as diabetes mellitus, immunodeficiency, thalassemia, and other diseases.