Orient Net, 4 March 2018— Syrians in Eastern Ghouta are forcibly leaving their homes in areas to which Assad regime and its sectarian militias were making progress under the heavy regime shelling.

The regime warplanes have dropped more than 200 barrel bombs on cities and towns of the regime-besieged Ghouta.

Orient News correspondent says the regime aims in this heavy bombing on some areas in Ghouta at dismembering the enclave and dividing it into two halves.

“People in al-Marj and al-Ashari are fleeing their homes, leaving their basic belongings behind them, while they desperately need them,” Hadi al-Munajed said.

“The best description of what is taking place in Ghoua is the scorched-land policy. I do not exaggerate if I say dozens of barrel bombs are dropped on every square kilometer”.

Despite the heavy bombing, no significant progress was made by the regime, except in the Marj. This is because the area’s terrain, Orient News correspondent added.

Syrians in Eastern Ghouta desperately need food and other essential commodities. They  repeatedly requested from the UN for an emergency aid access. The UN said the regime does not give access to its convoys and that the Russian 5-hour truce was not enough for the UN vehicles to reach the area without being targeted.

The UN Security Council on Saturday (February 24) unanimously adopted a resolution for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria where Assad regime’s warplanes have been pounding the last opposition bastion near Damascus in one of the deadliest bombing campaigns of war.