Syria- November 15th, 2017

Voices from besieged Ghouta

Eastern Ghouta, located around the Syrian capital city, Damascus, besieged by Al Assad, Putin, Hezbollah and the Iranian guard. From there, from one of the last trenches of the resistance, people have sought the Syrian paper The Truth of the Oppressed so they can express their denounces and international calls to solidarity and actions to break the siege:

M:“We are 300.000 people living in Ghouta, trying to survive among scarcity of basic food. Prices are extremely high and keep on rising. A kilo of bread costs 5 dollars and rice costs 15 dollars. A quarter kilo of tea costs 26 dollars while sugar costs 20 dollars. We cannot even drink tea, or eat bread or rice. How are we going to buy it? There is no work, and the few who have work get a salary of almost nothing.
We survive eating vegetables we still can get from some rural areas. We plan peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, but no milk or milk products. No nutrition. The adults are losing weight and having some malnutrition problems. But the children are suffering the most. Tens of small children of only 1, 2 or 3 years old died due to hunger. They couldn’t be breast fed because their mothers didn’t eat… this siege is killing us due to lack of food.
There are also some medicine missing. There are many dead that didn’t get medications, serum or antibiotics. There is also lack of clean water, and many times we have to drink poisoned water which causes many to get sick.”

S: “Regime doesn’t stop bombing us. There are planes of Putin, Assad’s explosive barrels and the constant fire of rockets and mortars from his mercenaries and the Iranian guard. There were 9 attacks with chemical weapons of chlorine gas. Yesterday, 40 cluster bombs were thrown here… only in a day. Before that, we suffered phosphor bomb. Harasta city was attacked with napalm, causing fire that took two days in extinguishing.
Each day, dawn in Ghouta means more than 30 airstrikes, with more than 200 bombs and missiles, causing 30 wounded and 12 dead before noon. Stop this! We want to break the siege! They are killingGhoutapeople.”

 

O:“There are stillconfrontations. The mercenaries of regime and Iranian allies are trying to advance on us, but they couldn’t and have retreated. We have advanced in the front of Harasta, in traffic administration office. So they took it all on Harasta and are bombing it in tens of air strikes. Napalm, elephant missiles, cluster bombs.
In the fight against the regime there’s the people. Also some of the fighters of Fayalq al Rahman and Ahrar al Sham are in the frontline.
Here we have also Jesh al Islam (the “Army of Islam”), but it is not in the front. They say they are the army of “Islam” but they are the army “of dollar”. They keep in storage the food they receive from Russia and the UN and then they sell it at high prices.They do not fight the regime. They never went to an attack to take over Damascus. When there was fighting, they left the front alone and attacked those fighting from behind. They repressed with live ammunition when the civilians marched to their quarters and warehouses asking to be opened and to stop attacking those fighting the regime. Only in April and Maytheykilled 800 civilians.
Wecannot trust them. We ask the world to act and to break the siege. Thechildren are starving. Thereis no food. We are bombed every day. They will kill usall.”

 

Daily report for November 17th, 2017 on attacks of Besieged Ghouta:

The following is a summary of the attacks occurred only in a day, on November 17th that is to say only in a day.

Airstrikes:
22onHarasta
2onMudira
20onArbin

4explosive barrelson rural areas

Artillery attack:
More than 200 onHarasta
More than 200 onMudira
More than 25 onArbin
More than 25 in rural areas
8onJobar
5 on Ain Terma

Elephant missiles (capable of destroying an underground shelter):
5onHarasta
3onKafrHowar

Cluster bombs:
3onKafrBotna
3on Duma
3onHamouriya
1onHaza
1onHarasta
5 onSaqaba

Places where there are confrontations with the regime:
Jobar
Harasta
Arbin
Mudira
Ain Terma

New martyrs:
3 from rural areas
1 fromSaqaba
1 from Duma
7fromArbin
1from Ain Terma
1fromHowaria
1fromMudira

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