A week of mass displacement results in the exit of more than 82 thousand citizens from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus
Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: in conjunction with boarding the buses that entered Harasta city, with the fighters and their families and citizens of the people and residents of the city, who refused the agreement with the regime forces to complete the convoy of which about 10 busses came out and stopped at the outskirts of the city, the operations of displacement of citizens from Douma city in the northern sector of the faction’s controlled areas in the Eastern Ghouta, are continuing, were the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the displacement of more than 4200 citizens from Douma city towards the regime’s controlled areas in the vicinity of the Eastern Ghouta, through Al-Wafideen Camp, in which this continued displacement has increased the number of citizens left Ghouta during a week of mass displacement from the besieged Ghouta which is torn into 3 separated parts, in order to clamp down on each enclave even more, and the SOHR monitored today the 22nd of March 2018, that the regime forces managed to enter Ein Tarma town and started to advance into its outskirts, to take the control of the town and clamp down on the factions even more in the south-western enclave of the Eastern Ghouta, where clashes are taking place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the Islamic factions in Ein Tarma town.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the displacement of more than 80 thousand citizens since the 15th of March 2018, the date of starting the displacement of citizens, where the citizens came out from the enclave controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, and from the enclave controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam and from Harasta city controlled by Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement, after violent clashes started on the 25th of February 2018, which clamped down on the citizens and the factions in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and these advancement operations by the regime forces led by Russian officers and backed by militiamen loyal to the regime of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, scattered completely the Eastern Ghouta into 3 separated parts, and these tearing operations were accompanied by shelling a week earlier which continued with the advance of the regime forces targeting the Eastern Ghouta by thousands of shells, raids, missiles and explosive barrels, leaving 1564 Syrian civilians 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 5400 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 1032 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.