The displacement of citizens from Douma continues amid anticipation for releasing thousands of abductees and captives by Jaysh Al-Islam from its prisons and ongoing preparations by Al-Rahman Corps for the departure
Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of the exit of citizens since today morning, Saturday the 24th of March 2018, from Douma city controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam and this is the last are under its control in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where the people coming out, are heading to the regime’s controlled areas, then to shelters under the supervision of the Red Crescent which working on transferring them, and this exit is coincided with anticipation for implementing the largest deal between Jaysh Al-Islam and the regime, through releasing thousands of abductees and captives by Jaysh Al-Islam which hold them in Al-Tuba Prison and its other detention centers, in return for evacuating thousands of injuries and medical cases by the regime and transfer them to receive treatment within an agreement with a Russian guarantee.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored that after Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement had left Harasta city and the arrival of its fighters and their families estimated at about 4700 persons, the fighters of Al-Rahman Corps and their families with the citizens who reject the agreement with the regime, started preparations for leaving towards the Syrian North according to an agreement reached with Al-Rahman Cops which only Arbin and Zamalka remained under its control in the Eastern Ghouta, where the agreement provides on the immediate start of transfer of ill and injured people to the hospitals in the capital Damascus or Russian field hospitals -via the Red Crescent- with Russian guarantee that they would not be pursued by the regime, and they will be chosen between returning to Ghouta or moving to the Syrian north after the end their treatment, and the exit of fighters with their small arms and families and civilians who want to go the Syrian north, and the exit of fighters and civilians and with their belongings, devices, documents and money without being searched, and for those who choose to stay Russia will ensure that they are not pursued by the regime forces, also points for the Russian military police will be deployed within cities and towns of the Eastern Ghouta and Jobar neighborhood, while the starting point will be Arbin city and the reaching point will Qalaat al-Madiq, and the areas from which Rahman Corps will withdraw from are Arbin, Zamalka, Jobar and Ein Tarma, and this complete exit of the Islamic Movement of Ahrar Al-Sham from the Eastern Ghouta; following a military operation started by the regime forces and led by Russian officers and advisors and supported by Syrian and non-Syrian gunmen, on the 25th of February 2018, which ended by final negotiation with Ahrar Al-Sham movement, which ended by their exit on the 23rd of March from Harasta but it still controls Hazza and Ein Tarma, while that enabled the regime forces to expand their control to about 90.5% of the factions’ controlled areas in the Eastern Ghouta.