Media: Assad used chlorine in the eastern guta

With one of the shelling of the oasis controlled by the rebels, the east Guta near Damascus dictator Bashar al -Assad used shells with chlorine. Such information on Saturday was transmitted by the BBC.

After the attack, the locals said, the smell of this gas was felt in the air. In turn, doctors reported that six people were treated for minor breathing problems.

East Guta, directly adjacent to the Syrian capital from the east, is the last relatively large territory in the vicinity of Damascus, controlled by the rebels. An oasis with a population of about 400 thousand people has been besieged by dictator troops since 2013.

In May 2017, Russia, Iran and Turkey, by its agreement , declared the eastern Guta of one of the de-escalation zones . Despite this, the oasis continues to be bombarded.

In recent months, the regime has strengthened the blockade of the Eastern Guta. Assad’s troops and their union irregular formations are shelling paths along which products and medicines are delivered to residents of the area. The humanitarian organizations stated that the dictator uses hunger as weapons against local residents.

In November 2017, the UN report reported that people in the Eastern Guta were forced to eat livestock and even food waste. Several people died of hunger.

On January 4, it became known that at least 30 civilians died from Russian raids on East Guta. On the 10th, the Supreme Commissar of the UN Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein said that from December 31, at least 85 civilians were killed from air and terrestrial attacks for an oasis. The siege of the eastern Guta, Zeid emphasized, led to a humanitarian disaster.

Last week, the humanitarian NGOs reported that during the attacks on the eastern Guta and other territories controlled by the rebels, at least 10 hospitals were subjected to direct 10 days by direct bombing and missile strikes. One of the doctors noted that the current attacks are the most intense over the past year.

Yusuf Ibrahim, a teacher from the city of Kharast near the western border of the eastern Guta, said that due to bombing and artillery, all the inhabitants of the city moved to the basements. Markets and other outlets do not work.

The Assad regime was repeatedly convicted of chemical attacks on opponents, and it was with the use of chlorine. The dictator rejects all the accusations; Moscow supports it in this. In October - November 2017, Russia blocked three projects of the UN Security Council resolution on the extension of the mandate of the joint mechanism of the organization to prohibit chemical weapons and united nations to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria.