Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham flips the table on the steps of the agreement of deporting its fighters from in the Eastern Ghouta to Idlib and continues with Ahrar al-Sham in its attack against the regime forces in Harasta
The clashes continue violently between the regime forces supported by the gunmen loyal to them against Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the Islamic movement of Ahrar Al-Sham, in places in al-Ajami area in Harasta city at the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, as a result of the violent attack by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham, and by a member of Gulf nationality detonating himself in a booby trapped vehicle targeting the regime forces in the area, the clashes are accompanied by continuous shelling and targeting between both parties amid information about casualties in their ranks, and this attack comes about 2 weeks after the movements in the Eastern Ghouta to transport the fighters and their families to the Syrian north, sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that this attack is considered as “flipping the table” against the steps that have been taken in order to deport the fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham from the Eastern Ghouta to Idlib, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 17th of December 2017 that a new movement is witnessed in Rif Dimashq province, about transporting fighters to the Syrian North, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that fighters are registering their names in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and in the detains obtained by the SOHR from several sources; a movement is taking place preparing for transporting fighters in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham from their positions in Al-Ghouta to Idlib province, and this movement is taking place in order to bring out the remaining Arab and foreign fighters of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, as well as the Syrian fighters who want to get out towards the Syrian North, individually or even with their families, in addition to those families that wish to leave for different reasons such as their wish to be treated and escaping from the siege, hunger, and killing.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a record of a commander of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham from the Eastern Ghouta, in which he said that there are efforts taking place to “empty the Eastern Ghouta from the mujahedeen” and from Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and that there are attempts taking place guaranteed by Al-Rahman Corps, Jaysh Al-Islam and Russia, to bring out the non-Syrian fighters of Tahrir Al-Sham as well as the Syrian fighters who desire to leave, to the Syrian North, in a new transportation, and the commander accused those who work on the success of this step, that they try to split the ranks for personal benefits, and there are some of those who want to get out, working on “achieving Al Qaeda project outside the Eastern Ghouta, as if jihad is only based on al-Qaeda, we like al-Qaeda, and keep to it, but we are not ready to challenge our masters, sheiks, mujahedeen, and leaders we followed, or to be ungrateful to them, we are not also ready to cut our relations with Sharia issues, ideas and views upon which we built our religion”, the commander also called in his record for not leaving the Eastern Ghouta to leave the fighting alone facing the regime forces and their allies.
Other sources inside the Eastern Ghouta told Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham is split apart inside Al-Ghouta, in which the commanders and leaders as well as some of their subordinates refuse to get out and reject the agreement of transporting them to Idlib, while others hurried to register their names in order to leave the besieged Ghouta, and some sources estimated the number of the non-Syrian fighters in hundreds, and the registration was opened the families who want to get out, and if Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham agrees to leave the Eastern Ghouta completely, then they will have no place to be presented in the entire provinces of Damascus and Rif Dimashq, with the exception of the south of the capital Damascus and the southwestern Rif Dimashq, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published earlier, that an agreement was reached on the 3rd of August 2017, to evacuate the people from the Syrian barren hills of Falita and the Lebanese barren hills of Arsal in exchange for handing over the prisoners of the Lebanese Hezbollah who were held by Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham in Idlib to which a convoy carrying at least 8 thousand people, including hundreds of members and fighters of Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham along with their families, arrived.