Ongoing and heavy exit takes place through Hamouriyah passage and more than 12500 citizens left until now to the regime forces’ controlled areas in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus
The displacement of citizens is continuing from the pocket controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, to the regime forces’ controlled areas in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascu, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the number of people who got out, has escalated, after the arrival of hundreds of citizens from the towns and cities of Jisrayn, Kafr Batna, Zamalka and other areas controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, raising to more than 12500, the number of people who came out until now from this pocket, and this is the largest mass displacement witnessed in the Eastern Ghouta since the siege imposed on it by the regime forces and their allies started in 2013, and the SOHR monitored that the citizens started to leave the Eastern Ghouta by cars, mini busses and trucks through the passage of Hamouriyah.
And reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the members of Al-Rahman Corps withdrew from the area of the passage and retreated into Hamouriyah city, while other sources told the Syrian Observatory that Russia and the regime forces meant to choose this time, the 15th of March 2018, in the 7th anniversary of the Syrian revolution, to direct a massage that means “in the anniversary of the beginning of the Syrian revolution, the Syrians returned in the arms of the homeland”
And in conjunction with the exit of citizens from the pocket controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, and the entry of humanitarian aid to the pocket controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored bombardment targeting Zamalka city controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, which resulted in a massacre leaving 12 casualties at least, raising to 79 including 9 children and 7 citizen women, the number of casualties who have been killed since Tuesday morning, in conjunction with evacuating tens of citizens from Douma city controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam through Al-Wafideen Camp to shelters in areas controlled by the regime forces in Rif Dimashq, while the number of wounded increased to more than 360 citizens including tens of children and citizen women, raising in turn to 1261, the number of the Syrian civilians whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory in the Eastern Ghouta, including 252 children and 171 women, who have been killed since the 18th of February 2018, by the aerial, rocket and artillery shelling on the cities and towns of Douma, Harasta, Arbin, Zamalka, Hamouriyah, Jesrin, Kafr Batna, Hazza, Ash’ari, Nashabiyah, Aftries, Otaya, Al-Shifonyyah, Al-Marj area, Mesraba, Madyara, Beit Sawa, and other areas in the besieged Ghouta of Damascus, resulted in the injury of more than 4911 citizens including hundreds of children and citizen women with varying severity, some of them have permanent disabilities, while the bodies of tens of citizens are still under the rubble of destruction caused by the aerial, rocket and artillery shelling by the regime forces on the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and the total death toll documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, includes 729 casualties including 111 children and 88 women who were killed and documented by the SOHR after the resolution of the UNSC, which failed again to stop the killing of the people of the Eastern Ghouta, and the shelling resulted in the fall of hundreds of wounded, where the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries, amid the tragic humanitarian situation of the people of Ghouta, who intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that they do not leave the shelters for fear of the intensive shelling, amid inability of the medical staff to relieve all medical cases.