(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 100 families fled southern neighborhoods of Moadamiyet al-Sham to the northern district, local activists said as Syrian regime forces stepped up attacks to capture the western suburb of Damascus.
The town's media center said regime helicopters had dropped at least 36 barrel bombs on Moadamiyet al-Sham on Friday.
Syrian's Republican Guards forces and notorious Fourth Armored Division have intensified siege on the town as rebels refuse to surrender or to leave in similar scenario to fellow fighters in Homs and Zabadani.
Moadamiyet al-Sham, also known as Moadamiya, with about 45,000 people, has been under major attack by regime army since last week after the collapse of a fragile truce with rebels signed late 2013 and more than two years of suffocating siege.
The Assad army has locked the main crossing with the capital since last December and its bulldozers have started Tuesday to set up shields and barrier between the town and nearby Daraya and Damascus in order to tighten the blockade on the residents, media center said.
No one is allowed to get out just some government employees on condition not coming back home, according to activists.
Meanwhile, many death cases reported in the town due to the siege and malnutrition.
Stephen O'Brien, the U.N. aid chief, said last Wednesday that Syrian government in 2015 ignored most United Nations requests to deliver humanitarian aid to some of the 4.6 million people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas and only 620,000 received help.
More than 260,000 people have been killed since Syria’s revolution erupted in March 2011, and millions more have fled their homes.
The town's media center said regime helicopters had dropped at least 36 barrel bombs on Moadamiyet al-Sham on Friday.
Syrian's Republican Guards forces and notorious Fourth Armored Division have intensified siege on the town as rebels refuse to surrender or to leave in similar scenario to fellow fighters in Homs and Zabadani.
Moadamiyet al-Sham, also known as Moadamiya, with about 45,000 people, has been under major attack by regime army since last week after the collapse of a fragile truce with rebels signed late 2013 and more than two years of suffocating siege.
The Assad army has locked the main crossing with the capital since last December and its bulldozers have started Tuesday to set up shields and barrier between the town and nearby Daraya and Damascus in order to tighten the blockade on the residents, media center said.
No one is allowed to get out just some government employees on condition not coming back home, according to activists.
Meanwhile, many death cases reported in the town due to the siege and malnutrition.
Stephen O'Brien, the U.N. aid chief, said last Wednesday that Syrian government in 2015 ignored most United Nations requests to deliver humanitarian aid to some of the 4.6 million people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas and only 620,000 received help.
More than 260,000 people have been killed since Syria’s revolution erupted in March 2011, and millions more have fled their homes.
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