The Eastern Ghouta of Damascus witnesses the continuation of evacuating the medical cases from Jaysh Al-Islam-held areas in conjunction with bombardment which targeted the pocket controlled by Al-Rahman Corps
Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: evacuating the medical cases from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus are continuing, under the supervision of the UN, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that 3 batches of medical cases were evacuated from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, including about 150 persons including tens of children and citizen women, where theses batches were evacuated from the pocket still controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta, represented by the areas of Douma and Al-Rihan, and these batches were evacuated and transported to shelters in areas controlled by the regime forces in Rif Dimashq, preparing for transporting more cases estimated at hundreds, to receive treatment, and the evacuation took place today morning, Tuesday the 13th of March 2018, under the supervision of the UN, through Al-Wafideen Camp separates between the pocket controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam and the rest of the Eastern Ghouta.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning that it is expected that an evacuation of medical cases will be carried out in the Eastern Ghouta under the supervision of the UN during the next few hours, while the evacuation of citizens from Jaysh Al-Islam’s controlled areas in the Eastern Ghouta, is coincided with renewed shelling on the controlled areas of Al-Rahman Corps, and clashes witnessed in places in the area, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored clashes between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against Al-Rahman Corps, in areas in the vicinity of Arbin from the side of Madyara town, and in Aftries farms and the farms of Jisrayn town, in the southern pocket controlled by Al-Rahman Corps in the Eastern Ghouta, in conjunction with clashes between Jaysh Al-Islam against the regime forces in the south of Douma from the side of Mesraba, and clashes are taking place in the vicinity and the outskirts of the factions’ controlled areas in Harasta city, and the clashes are concentrated between Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement against the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them in the vicinity of Harasta city, while the warplanes shelled areas in Zamalka city in conjunction with bombardment by the regime’s helicopters on Hamouriyah area, without information about casualties.
While it has increased to 1185, the number of the Syrian civilians whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory in the Eastern Ghouta, including 244 children and 164 women, who have been killed since the 18th of February 2018, by the aerial, rocket and artillery shelling on the cities and towns of Douma, Harasta, Arbin, Zamalka, Hamouriyah, Jesrin, Kafr Batna, Hazza, Ash’ari, Nashabiyah, Aftries, Otaya, Al-Shifonyyah, Al-Marj area, Mesraba, Madyara, Beit Sawa, and other areas in the besieged Ghouta of Damascus, resulted in the injury of more than 4500 citizens including hundreds of children and citizen women with varying severity, some of them have permanent disabilities, while the bodies of tens of citizens are still under the rubble of destruction caused by the aerial, rocket and artillery shelling by the regime forces on the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and the total death toll documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, includes 653 casualties including 103 children and 81 women who were killed and documented by the SOHR after the resolution of the UNSC, which failed again to stop the killing of the people of the Eastern Ghouta, and the shelling resulted in the fall of hundreds of wounded, where the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries, amid the tragic humanitarian situation of the people of Ghouta, who intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that they do not leave the shelters for fear of the intensive shelling, amid inability of the medical staff to relieve all medical cases.