The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More than 7000 citizens and fighters and their families within the sixth and the largest batch of from the central part of the Eastern Ghouta continue their way to the Syrian North

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the arrival of the first convoy within the sixth batch of the people displaced from the Eastern Ghouta’s south-western enclave, in Qalaat al-Madiq in Sahl Al-Ghab in the north-western countryside of Hama, where the second convoy of the same batch including thousands of citizens and fighters and their families, is expected to arrive in the next few hours, where the number of the displaced people within the sixth batch exceeded 7000 persons including about 2200 fighters in addition to their families and other citizens who reject the agreement between Al-Rahman Corps and a Russian general, thus, the sixth batch is the largest one of the batches which have got out of the central part of the Eastern Ghouta until now.

Raising to 182 thousand persons, the number of people displaced from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, towards the Syrian North and to the regime’s controlled areas, including people stayed in the areas that the regime forces controlled within the Eastern Ghouta, in the enclave controlled by Al-Rahman Corps, and in the details documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the number of people got out through the crossings towards the regime’s controlled areas exceeded 105 thousand citizens, while about 40 thousand citizens stayed in the towns of Kafr Batna, Ein Tarma, Saqba and Harasta which the regime forces controlled, also about 37 thousand persons have displaced to the Syrian North they are: 5 thousand persons have displaced to the Syrian North from Harasta city which used to be controlled by Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement, and about 32 thousand persons including more than 8200 fighters of who have displaced from Zamalka, Arbin and Jobar controlled by Al-Rahman Corps to the Syrian North.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called on the residents of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, to stay in their cities and towns, after the displacement of tens of thousands of people from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, in conjunction with killing and injuring more than 7000 citizens in 34 successive days by the regime forces and Russia by the aerial, rocket and artillery strikes, on condition that the UN completely secure their stay, and provide guarantees that prevent the implementation of the Turkish-Russian agreement, leads to a simultaneous demographic change in both Eastern Ghouta of Damascus and Afrin, that the Russian occupation forces have to secure the area from ​mines and planted and unexploded bombs, to ensure the safety of the people in order to preserve their lives and for fear of the death of more citizens in the Eastern Ghouta which witnessed killing in all forms from killing by shells until the death due to starvation and disease.