Cautious calm dominates throughout Wadi Barada

Cautious calm dominates throughout Wadi Barada
Uneasy calm has dominated the scene in Damascus western countryside’s Wadi Barada, while negotiations were held to pump water from Ein al-Fijeh after weeks of its stoppage.

Field sources told Orient Net that maintenance teams were ready to reach the water pumping station, but Assad terrorists denied them access. Assad regime insisted on sending some of its militias with the maintenance teams, in a provocative step, according to locals. The regime also insisted on flying its flag over the water pumping station. Locals and opposition fighters categorically rejected the Assad regime’s demands of entering the towns and villages of the area. Returning of all IDPs to their homes, opening all roads, allowing all food supplies to enter and settling the cases of all defectors from Assad Army were among their urgent demands.  

Local media activists published on Saturday video footage from the heart of Bassimeh, one of Wadi Brada towns, showing the significant damage caused by Assad terrorists’ bombing on the town.

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Assad regime and allied mercenaries from the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah launched an attack two weeks ago to take back Wadi Barada where a spring provides supplies to four million people in the capital.

A military news outlet run by Hezbollah reported that a ceasefire had been reached for "a number of hours" in the area. But Munir Sayal, head of the political wing of the Ahrar al-Sham opposition group, told Reuters the report was "a lie".

He confirmed that the Assad regime had rejected a ceasefire that would have allowed for repairs to the water pumping station and for people to return to two nearby villages from which they had been displaced.

Opposition fighters say Assad regime bombed the water pumping station at the start of the campaign. The United Nations said it was put of action by "deliberate targeting" but has declined to mention Assad regime verbatim.

The United Nations say that children are at risk of waterborne diseases in Damascus where 5.5 million people have had little or no running water for two weeks.

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