Hundreds of citizens leave Douma in conjunction with preparation for displacement from Harasta

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: warplanes and helicopters resume their targeting by raids and explosive barrels this morning, on areas in Zamalka, Arbin and Hazzain the south-western sector of the Eastern Ghouta, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored new displacement from Douma city since morning, where 200 families at least including between 800 and 1000 persons, have left through Al-Wafideen Camp towards the regime’s controlled areas, within the undeclared agreement between Jaysh Al-Islam and the Russians, and about 2300 persons have displaced from Douma yesterday as well, thus, the number of people displaced from the Eastern Ghouta towards the regime’s controlled areas since the 15th of March 2018, the date of starting the displacement, exceeded 76 thousand persons.

And in the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published a short time ago, that a preparation is taking place for evacuating the first batch of wounded and fighters and their families, within Harasta Agreement, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last night, that it is expected tomorrow morning, Thursday the 22nd of March 2018, for the Harasta Agreement to take place, which provides for the exit of about 8000 persons from Harasta city towards the Syrian north, including hundreds of fighters and their families, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the arrival of Syrian Red Crescent vehicles, to oversee the implementation of the agreement and to transfer the injured and ill people from Harasta towards the Syrian north, and the preparations come in conjunction with the rise of civilian death toll in the Eastern Ghouta, where it rose to 1544, the number of the Syrian civilians whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory in the Eastern Ghouta, including 316 children and 193 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 5370 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 1012 casualties including 175 children and 110 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.

And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the death toll is continuing to increase in the Eastern Ghouta, as a result of the violent clashes witnessed in Ghouta since the 25th of February 2018, the date of starting the regime’s violent ground attack on the area, and since then, the regime forces managed to take the control of about 83% of the factions’ controlled area in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where it has increased to 292 at least, the number of the members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian nationalities, who were killed in these violent clashes including more than 70 officers of different ranks, while 46 members at least of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of non-Syrian nationalities, in the same clashes and the accompanied exchange of targeting, while it has increased to 235 at least, the number of the fighters of the Islamic factions operating in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, who were killed in the violent clashes witnessed in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, which were accompanied by intensive bombardment by warplanes, by explosive barrels and by the regime forces on the area, and hundreds in the ranks of the both parties were injured, which may raise the death toll.