Syria: Terrorists Looting Humanitarian Aid Cargoes in Eastern Ghouta

People in Eastern Ghouta disclosed on Wednesday that the terrorists have been plundering the humanitarian aid convoys that were delivered to the war-torn region earlier in the week.

The supply of humanitarian aid to the Syrian town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta by a UN-Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy was almost jeopardized by the two-hour talks between the convoy members and head of the local military and political councils, the sources said.

"After the convoy entered Douma, the talks between the convoy staff and leaders of the local military and political councils took place in one of the local mosques, being recorded on video, and the record was later used by the Jeish al-Islam terrorists for propaganda purposes," a source said.

"At the same time, due to the two-hour delay, the delivery of humanitarian aid and medicine to civilians was in fact under the threat of disruption," the source added.

• The source emphasized that the humanitarian agencies were able to personally verify that militants forcibly kept civilians in the area as a "human shield".

"The residents asked the UN staff and convoy members to facilitate their evacuation from this zone, told that the militants are taking away their aid, forbidding them from leaving their homes," he stated.

In the meantime, Head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria Major-General Yuri Yevtushenko stressed that militants in Eastern Ghouta are holding hostage women and children using them as a human shield.
 (FNA)
 7/3/18