The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The agreement in Douma reaches its conclusion and Jaysh Al-Islam chooses the north-east of Aleppo as a destination for it and a western party imposes guarantees keep them aside the Turkish action

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from a number of reliable sources, that a final agreement had been reached between Jaysh Al-Islam and the Russian side, and in the details obtained by the SOHR; it was agreed to choose the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo as a destination for those who will come out from Douma of the fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam with their families and other citizens reject the agreement, on condition that the Russian military police will enter in the next few hours to reassure the people and prompted them not to leave the city, to the Syrian North, as Russia desires to stop the displacement of people and fighters to the Syrian North, while Jaysh Al-Islam refused to be transferred to the Eastern Qalamoun as it is considered a besieged area, and the regime also refused the transfer of Jaysh Al-Islam to the Eastern Qalamoun as it will be a front of the regime in the future, while the agreement is being held secretly by Jaysh Al-Islam on the developments of negotiations and the agreements, and the entry of the Russian military police will be followed by the start of releasing the kidnapped, prisoners and abductees by Jaysh Al-Islam, and the start of evacuating wounded and sick people to receive treatment, and the entry of the regime’s government departments to the area.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also learned that a western party refused this agreement which allows the fighters to be transferred to the north-east of Aleppo, and requested guarantees to allow the fighters to be transferred to Jarabulus and Al-Bab, and these guarantees based on keeping the fighters aside the Turkish action and not to involve them in any operations expected to be carried out later in the Syrian North by Turkey, also a western party refused the transfer of the fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam to Daraa, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published today morning that the negotiations are still continuing between the both parties to reach a conclusion for the outstanding points that prevent reaching a final agreement, as there are many destinations put forward to depart towards them, while the rejection of the group of Abu Abd Al-Rahman Ka’aka the general legitimate official of Jaysh Al-Islam is continuing to the solutions put forward by the Russians, and the destination of more than 60000 fighters, their families and other civilians wishing to leave Douma; is one of the most outstanding points that still prevent reaching a final agreement, in the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that it was agreed to displace about 1300 citizens including activists as well as fighters of who want to leave towards the Syrian North through Al-Wafideen Camp, in the same context, two persons were killed as a result of the fall of a shell on an area in the outskirts of Douma after the midnight of Saturday – Sunday.

And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday morning, Saturday, that it monitored that the military reinforcements of material and weapons brought by the regime forces are continuing to arrive, in the frame of the continuation of the circle imposed on Douma city, in conjunction with the continuation of the negotiations between the Russian side with Jaysh Al-Islam, in order to reach a final agreement about Douma city which is the stronghold and the last area controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that this mobilizations of the regime forces come as a part of a preparation for an expected military operation, in the case of collapsing the negotiations about Douma which reached advanced stages, despite the continued rejection of the group of Abu Abd Al-Rahman Kaaka the general legitimate official of Jaysh Al-Islam, in addition to the end of the displacement of the central part of the Eastern Ghouta towards the Syrian North, and it also published on Wednesday the 28th of March 2018, that a state of resentment in Douma city revealed by demonstration in which demonstrators went out calling for preventing more destruction to the city, through continuing the negotiations and reaching an agreement with the aforementioned terms in Douma city, and the citizens demanded on releasing their sons hold in the prisons and detention centers of Jaysh Al-Islam, and reliable sources stressed to the SOHR that several people were arrested in Douma city for making names list for thousands of civilians and former militants and activists to leave the Eastern Ghouta towards the Syrian north.