Regime government intends to remove Jubar neighbourhood under pretext of “presence of large number of tunnels and massive destruction”

Damascus Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Since the Syrian regime captured eastern Ghouta, the regime’s security services have prevented the residents of Jubar neighbourhood, Damascus, from returning to their areas or checking their houses and properties. According to SOHR sources, the people and dignitaries of Jubar neighbourhood, now living in Ain Tarma town in eastern Ghouta, met with a group of regime officers, nearly two months ago, at the headquarters of the civil council of Ain Tarma town, where they discussed the issue of allowing the neighbourhood’s residents to return to their areas. However, the officers told the residents that there was a decision by the supreme command, preventing the residents from returning to their houses or check them. Moreover, an officer has told the residents and dignitaries that the regime’s government studies the removal of the entire neighbourhood. This means that the neighbourhood will be under the terms of Act No. 23 issued in 2015, according to which the regime’s government will remove all neighbourhoods and cities which have been subjected to natural disasters like Al-Qaboun and Tishreen neighbourhoods, areas adjacent Barzeh and Tishreen neighbourhoods and a large part of Al-Dukhaniyyah neighbourhood.

According to local sources, many people from Jubar neighbourhood have offered their houses and properties for sale at real estate offices at very low prices for fear of being seized by regime forces, especially since most of the terms of Act No. 23 are not clear except for the terms stipulating the removal of the uninhabitable neighbourhoods and cities affected by the war, without clearing the fate of the civilians’ properties.