Only 13 Civilians Exit Terrorist-Held Regions in Eastern Ghouta via Humanitarian Corridor

Brigadier General Vladimir Zolotokhin said that the trucks that carried humanitarian cargos to Eastern Ghouta yesterday managed to take 13 civilians, including 5 children, away from terrorist-held territories to army-controlled regions via the safe corridor near al-Wafedin camp.

Also, Elam al-Harbi news quoted the Russian officials as saying that the convoy of humanitarian aid retuned safely after carrying out the mission in Eastern Ghouta.

Zolotokhin further said that representatives of the UN and Red Crescent said that the humanitarian situation in Eastern Ghouta is critical due to the lack of medicine and food.

The Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at or the Levant Liberation Board) terrorists have fired mortar shells at the humanitarian convoy that was on his way to the Syrian town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, no casualties are reported, the representative of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Center for Syrian reconciliation, Gen. Maj. Yuri Yevtushenko said late on Monday.

“Despite the daily ‘humanitarian pauses’ introduced at the initiative of the Russian side within the framework of the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2401, the terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta are gradually enhancing  the shelling of Damascus and the Muhayam-Al-Wafedin humanitarian corridor,” Yevtushenko added.

The Syria’s state-run news agency, SANA, reported that the terrorists in Eastern Ghouta have still blocked way on civilians to entered al-Wafedin camp via the safe corridor.

People who are trying to flee Eastern Ghouta are shelled or sniped by rebels who may keep them as human shields, Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, the mother superior of St James Monastery in Syria’s Homs province, told RT.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that civilians in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta are being severely punished by militants in public if they break a curfew, which was introduced to prevent them from escaping the embattled area.

The Russian military has previously reported that the civilian population was being used as “human shield” by the terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta.

The Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria has also warned of possible plot to sabotage the UN aid delivery to Eastern Ghouta, while people are being deprived of food and supplies.

In February, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution proposing a 30-day humanitarian ceasefire in Syria, which does not apply to members of the ISIL, Al-Nusra Front or any other terrorist organizations. In Eastern Ghouta, a daily humanitarian pause was introduced on February 27 in order to help civilians leave.