Negotiations continue with Rahman Corps to announce an agreement with it about the southwest enclave of Ghouta with the renew of shelling on the enclaves of Ahrar al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam
Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: places in Douma area in the Eastern Ghouta which is controlled by Jaysh al-Islam; witnessed renewed shelling by helicopter using barrel bombs which caused material damage, but no information about casualties, this comes after the clashes that took place in the area between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against Jaysh al-Islam, in conjunction with artillery and rocket shelling on the area, while Harasta area witnessed the fall of shells and rockets, which caused material damage but no information about casualties, while it rose to 1403 Syrian civilians whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory in the Eastern Ghouta, including 276 children and 175 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 5200 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 971 casualties including 135 children and 92 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.
while negotiations are still underway with Rahman Corps to reach an announcement of the agreement of which its terms are to be agreed upon, where the agreement require the transfer of Rahman Corps from the southwest of the Eastern Ghouta to the north of Syria, after the eastern Ghouta has witnessed the exit of thousands of civilians during the past few hours, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the exit of thousands of citizens since this morning, the 18th of March 2018, after the exit of more than 50000 civilians in the last 72 hours; from the southwest enclave of the Eastern Ghouta, which is controlled by Rahman Corps, and the exit of civilians today, Sunday, took place in conjunction with the calm that prevailed the Ghouta, along with the fly of warplanes in the sky and the fall of shells on areas in Ein Tarma town, and according to information obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, this calmness comes in time where it is awaited for the declaration of the agreement that is supposed to have been reached, between Rahman Corps and the Russian side, to get the fighters of Rahman Corps out of the Eastern Ghouta to the north of Syria, where Rahman Corps still controls Arbin, Zamalka and Ein Tarma and parts of Jobar neighborhood.