3 months and half after the entry of the last convoy…the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus witnesses the entry of an aid convoy consists of 7 vehicles to the controlled areas of Jaysh Al-Islam
A convoy of 7 vehicles for more than 400 thousand people provokes the rage and ridicule of the people besieged in the Eastern Ghouta
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a humanitarian aid convoy including 7 vehicles entered the besieged Eastern Ghouta, including 2 vehicles with medical aid, while the rest are carrying foodstuff, and the SOHR monitored that the convoy headed to Al-Nashabiyah town in Al-Marj area, controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam, in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and this is the first aid convoy to be entered the area, since late October 2017, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored at that time, the entry of a humanitarian aid convoy to the Eastern Ghouta on the 30th of October 2017, after several months of the entry of the last aid convoy to the area, where the humanitarian situation was worsening with the tight besiege by the Regime Forces and Russian Forces. The convoy included tens of trucks carrying foodstuffs, medicines, logistics and other supplies, and it entered from al-Wafedin camp near the Eastern Ghouta, and this convoy which entered the Eastern Ghouta today, Wednesday the 14th of February 2018, provoked the rage and ridicule of the residents about the entry of 7 vehicles fore more than 400 thousand people besieged inside the cities and the towns of the Eastern Ghouta which is out of the regime’s control and besieged by it.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Right published previously that the tragic health conditions, in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, represented by more than 720 medical cases including tens of children and citizen women, who need immediate evacuation, the evacuation which is ignored every time by the vehicles of the Red Crescent and the UN delegations accompany the humanitarian aid that enters the Eastern Ghouta, and leave without paying any attention as if they accomplished their mission perfectly, which provoked the patients and their families, and the medical sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the diseases are varied, in terms of their nature, level of progress, extent of distribution and the difficulty of being treated, as there are more than 500 patients have cancer, including more than 100 cases need immediate evacuation, due to the great drop of their conditions, also there are 59 cases, of who are believed to have cancer, are added to the 500 cases, in which the specialists of the center specialized in diagnosing and treating cancer in the Eastern Ghouta, failed to specify and diagnose their cases, due to the lack of necessary materials, and the stop of the laboratory for the same reasons, and there are more than 30 patients have the infecting tuberculosis, as well as the presence of about 25 cases of the kidney failure, and about 70 cases with varying diseases such as diabetes mellitus, immunodeficiency, thalassemia, and other diseases.
These catastrophic health conditions, as well as the deadly siege, came as a result of manipulation by traders, who the citizens of the Eastern Ghouta called the “crisis dealers”, who exploited the need of citizens and the paradoxes of the high and low value of the hard currency, to assign prices some of which is considered imaginary for the foodstuffs, including the main supplies, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a list of the prices of the main supplies needed at easy home, in which the price of a package of bread reaches about SP 1900 ( $ 5 ) the price of sugar is SP 2400 ( $ 6 ), the price of rice is SP 2600, the price of Bulgur is SP 2400, the price of wheat SP 1600, the price of a kilogram of flour reaches SP 3000, the price of salt reaches the same price of the flour, the price of the vegetable oil reaches SP 3500, the olive oil reaches double of the price of the vegetable oil, all of this came with the absence of the nature gas, while the other fuels of petrol and diesel fuel are presented at high prices, in which the price of a liter of petrol reaches SP 8000 which equals $ 21, while the price of the diesel fuel is SP 5000, and as a result of the lack of heating substances, the sale of firewood for heating appeared, in which the price of a kilogram of the firewood is SP 400, and the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that some traders are able to bring foodstuffs, from time to time, through the checkpoints of the regime, but at first they have to pay taxes and bribes to the checkpoint, rated by SP 3000 for each kilogram, while the financial and alimentary conditions of some citizens dropped greatly, which led them to sell their land to people who are outside the Eastern Ghouta in return for sending them money for their living, while others sell their homes, and others head to the kitchens of the factions operating in the Eastern Ghouta, to get meals, while the rest depend on the aid of the relief organizations operating in the Eastern Ghouta.