The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The first batch of people getting out of areas controlled by Rahman Corps departs from the Eastern Ghouta towards the Syrian north

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the first batch of fighters and civilians have gotten out of Rahman Corps’ controlled areas in the Eastern Ghouta, and left it heading to the Syrian north, where the first batch carries hundreds of fighters, their families and other civilians who refuse the agreement, also other batches will be transferred continuously in the coming days until the end of implementation of the agreement with Rahman Corps, where the agreement provides on the immediate start of transfer of ill and injured people to the hospitals in the capital Damascus or Russian field hospitals -via the Red Crescent- with Russian guarantee that they would not be pursued by the regime, and they will be chosen between returning to Ghouta or moving to the Syrian north after the end their treatment, and the exit of fighters with their small arms and families and civilians who want to go the Syrian north, and the exit of fighters and civilians and with their belongings, devices, documents and money without being searched, and for those who choose to stay Russia will ensure that they are not pursued by the regime forces, also points for the Russian military police will be deployed within cities and towns of the Eastern Ghouta and Jobar neighborhood, while the starting point will be Arbin city and the reaching point will Qalaat al-Madiq, and the areas from which Rahman Corps will withdraw from are Arbin, Zamalka, Ein Tarma and Jobar.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that this agreement which will bring out fighters of Rahman Corps, Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, their families and the civilians who refuse the agreement, and the agreement includes in one of its undeclared items; moving fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and their families from the part they control in Yarmouk camp south of the capital Damascus, to the Syrian north along with others people who are getting out by this agreement in the Eastern Ghouta, where they are expected to be evacuated from Yarmouk camp in conjunction with the exit of fighters and their families and civilians from the towns of Arbin, Zamalka and the Damascus neighborhood of Jobar.

Also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued exit of civilians through al-Wafddien crossing, which connects between Harasta city and regime forces’ controlled areas in its vicinity, where hundreds of civilians have gotten out of Douma city which is controlled by Jaysh al-Islam and considered the last area controlled by Jaysh al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta, where the people coming out, are heading to the regime’s controlled areas, then to shelters under the supervision of the Red Crescent which working on transferring them, and this exit is coincided with anticipation for implementing the largest deal between Jaysh Al-Islam and the regime, through releasing thousands of abductees and captives by Jaysh Al-Islam which hold them in Al-Tuba Prison and its other detention centers, in return for evacuating thousands of injuries and medical cases by the regime and transfer them to receive treatment within an agreement with a Russian guarantee.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that it has increased to about 132 thousand people of who left through crossings to the regime’s controlled areas in the Eastern Ghouta and of who stayed in the areas which the regime forces controlled since Thursday the 15th of March 2018, and in the details documented by the SOHR; the number of people left through crossings towards the regime’s controlled areas reached about 95 thousand citizens, while 37 thousand citizens at least stayed in the towns of Kafr Batna, Ein Tarma and Saqba which the regime forces controlled.

Video by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shows the entry of buses and ambulances to transport Rahman Corps and their families from the southwest of the eastern Ghouta, within the evacuation agreement to the Syrian north

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Pictures by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights show the entry of buses and ambulances to transport Rahman Corps and their families from the southwest of the eastern Ghouta, within the evacuation agreement to the Syrian north

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