After 8 hours of stopping it by the Turkish authorities, the convoy of the displaced people of Douma enters areas controlled by “Shield of Euphrates” operations forces
Several reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory that the second convoy of the displaced people from Douma entered the areas controlled by “Shield of Euphrates” Operation forces in the northeastern part of Aleppo province, after more than 8 hours of stopping the convoy at the crossing between the aforementioned areas and the regime controlled areas. The SOHR learned that the “Shield of Euphrates” Operation forces allowed the entry of the convoy after they were ordered by the Turkish authorities following stopping the entry by a similar orders, since it has arrived on Wednesday the 11th of April 2018.
The SOHR published hours ago that the Turkish authorities are still continuing to prevent the entry of the second convoy which includes tens of buses carrying thousands of fighters and citizens of who reject the agreement between the Russians and the regime on one hand, and Jaysh Al-Islam on the other, where the second convoy of the displaced people of Douma of fighters and citizens, has not been allowed to enter the controlled areas of the Turkish-backed factions of the “Euphrates Shield” in the Syrian North until now, where the Turkish authorities are continuing to prevent the second convoy to enter, as the convoy is still stuck between the contact point at the last checkpoint of the regime forces and the first checkpoint of the factions of the “Euphrates Shield” in Al-Bab area in the north-east of Aleppo, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that with the exit of 2 batch from Douma in the past two days, the number of the displaced people within the both convoys, reached about 7500 including 2458 fighters at least of Jaysh Al-Islam, and the both convoys also included about 4750 children and citizen women of the fighter’s families and other citizens of who reject the agreement between Jaysh Al-Islam with the Russian and the regime, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published that it monitored tension prevailing the controlled areas of the “Euphrates Shield” Operation, in conjunction with the arrival of the second convoy of the displaced people of Douma, in the crossing between the regime forces controlled areas and the controlled areas of the Turkish-backed forces of the “Euphrates Shield” Operation, in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; tension is prevailing the controlled areas of the Turkish forces and their allied factions in Al-Bab area, as a result of preventing the second convoy by the Turkish authorities to enter their controlled areas in the Syrian North, where they are still refusing to let it enter their controlled areas in the Syrian territory, after they confiscated all of the individual weapons that the fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam have during their crossing to the controlled areas of the “Euphrates Shield” forces, aboard the first convoy, and local sources confirmed to the SOHR that the locals called on the Turkish authorities to let displaced people enter, while preparations for demonstrations and sit-ins are being carried out, to pressure the Turkish authorities and the factions of the “Euphrates Shield” Operation, to allow the convoy of Douma to enter the controlled areas of the Turkish forces and their allied factions in the Syrian North, while sources confirmed that a delegation of the residents has talked to the Turkish forces about the possibility of allowing the fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam to be transferred to Afrin, but the Turkish forces refused this option, and expressed their desire not to let the displaced people of Douma enter all of their controlled areas in the Syrian North.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in the past few days, Turkish delays and postponement to enter the convoys which departed few days ago from Douma to the Syrian North, before stopping the displacement from Douma as a result of obstructing the agreement between Jaysh Al-Islam with the Russian and the regime, where the SOHR published yesterday that it the arrival of the convoy which carries thousands of the displaced people from Douma city, in the controlled areas of the forces of the “Euphrates Shield” Operation,, where the buses entered heading towards the place specified for their stay at the present time, and sources of who were on the buses confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that the “Euphrates Shield” forces have confiscated the individual weapons that the fighters of Jaysh Al-Islam have, emphases that it is according to orders of the Turkish forces and intelligence, issued to them to take all individual weapons that the members and commanders of Jaysh Al-Islam have when they enter the area, amid resentment as a reaction against this step by the Turkish forces and their allied factions, which the people displaced from Douma to the Syrian North.