In conjunction with preparing the seventh batch of the displaced people to the Syrian North… an explosion rocks the east of the capital Damascus

A violent explosion rocked Jobar neighborhood which is witnessing a departure of the fighters of Al-Rahman Corps located in it, within the implementation of the agreement of Jobar – Zamalka – Arbin, through which more than 37 thousand citizens and fighters were transferred from the three areas mentioned above towards the Syrian North, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the explosion was caused by detonating a net of tunnels by Al-Rahman Corps, before leaving the area, which resulted in the rise of dust over the area, while the preparations of the seventh batch of buses are continuing, to carry the citizens and the fighters and their families, to the Syrian North, within the agreement which is still in effect and which the work is underway to complete its implementation.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today morning that the implementation of the agreement of Jobar – Zamalaka – Arbin is still continuing until now, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the displacement of the citizens and fighters of the Eastern Ghouta, to the Syrian North and to shelters, where the residents of Douma city head to the regime’s controlled areas, while those who stayed in the controlled areas of Al-Rahman Corps in Jobar, Zamalaka and Arbin head to the Syrian North, and with the continuation of the exit of the citizens and the fighters with their families from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and the escalated number of the people displaced from it, the Eastern Ghouta has witnessed the largest organized displacement in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian revaluation and the start of the demographic change and displacement from the Syrian territories.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored until now, the displacement of 144 thousand persons from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, even to the shelters in the regime’s controlled areas in the vicinity of the Eastern Ghouta and in Rif Dimashq, or to the Syrian North, from the cities of Harasta, Zamalka and Arbin, including more than 9500 fighters of the Islamic factions, and about 40 thousand citizens are added to the total number of the displaced people to the regime’s controlled areas and the Syrian North, of who stayed in the areas which the regime forces have advanced into in the Eastern Ghouta, including about 1000 fighters of the factions who turned into popular committees belong to the regime.

The Syrian observatory has documented the death of 1644 citizens including 344 children and 213 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 5420 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 1112 casualties including 203 children and 130 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.