Airstrikes end the quiet of Barada valley, leaders of the regime and Hezbollah warn of month of thirst in Damascus and faction leaders deny using it as leverage
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the warplanes carried out several airstrikes this morning on places in the areas of Bsima and Ain al-Fijah and other areas in the Barada Valley, ending by that the calm in Barada Valley which started since Saturday morning the 7th of January 2017, which was accompanied by negotiations to reach an agreement in order to start implementing the first step which was conditioned by the regime and the Lebanese Hezbollah, and after that the terms of the agreement between both parties sho8uld have been carried out.
Reliable sources reported to the Syrian Observatory for Human rights that the re-start of the military operations in Barada Valley area, came after the failure to reach an agreement about the water, its sources and the pumping stations in Ayn al-Fijah, which are based on the withdrawal of fighters from the spring, pumping stations and its surroundings, and rising the flags of the regime over it even if the regime forces never controlled it militarily and remained in the hands of a neutral party close to the regime and responsible for water pumping and control operations, where the agreement didn’t take place between both parties via mediators and notables, despite the confirmation of field commanders to the Syrian observatory for human rights that they “did not use the issue of cutting-off the water of the capital Damascus as leverage in the ongoing military operations in Wadi Barada”, while the Syrian Observatory was aware that commanders of the regime and Hezbollah have told the mediators that “in case no serious and full deal is made, then let Damascus be thirsty for a month until we rest other years from the water issue”.