(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of kafr Batna suburb in the Eastern Ghouta district have refused on Monday to receive any humanitarian aid unless being delivered to all embattled suburbs near Damascus, local reporter said.
The town's local council said the (Assad) regime is planning to sow discord in the Eastern Ghouta, stressing its refusal to get the aid while fellow besieged people are living under severe siege.
Residents said that 24 trucks filled with supplies to enter Kafr Batna and affiliated districts that not included 25 more towns and villages.
In the next-door town of Daraya, peopole went to street on monday demanding a siege lift and aid entry.
Last Wednesday, about 35 vehicles arrived in Moadimayet al-Sham, a rebel-held town near Damascus encircled by the regime army's elite Fourth Armored Division that led by Maher al-Assad.
Another 50 aid vehicles arrived in Madaya and Zabadani, two other regime-besieged towns near Damascus.
The UN has demanded unhindered access to all besieged areas of the country, where it says hundreds of thousands of people are trapped by fighting and deliberate blockades by Syria's various warring sides.
The UN is struggling to deliver aid to about 4.5 million Syrians who live in hard-to-reach areas, including nearly 400,000 people in besieged areas.
In the meantime, a draft U.S.-Russian plan calls for a cessation of hostilities in Syria to begin on Feb. 27 but to exclude ISIS and Al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front militants, two Western diplomatic sources said Monday.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report by the Al-Jazeera television network, which also reported that the draft calls on Syrian parties to agree to the cessation of hostilities by midday on Feb. 26. One of the sources said this was accurate, but the second was unable to confirm it.
The fighting in Syria started as an unarmed uprising against Assad in March 2011, but has since expanded into a full-on conflict that has killed more than 260,000 people, according to UN estimates. (With agencies)
The town's local council said the (Assad) regime is planning to sow discord in the Eastern Ghouta, stressing its refusal to get the aid while fellow besieged people are living under severe siege.
Residents said that 24 trucks filled with supplies to enter Kafr Batna and affiliated districts that not included 25 more towns and villages.
In the next-door town of Daraya, peopole went to street on monday demanding a siege lift and aid entry.
Last Wednesday, about 35 vehicles arrived in Moadimayet al-Sham, a rebel-held town near Damascus encircled by the regime army's elite Fourth Armored Division that led by Maher al-Assad.
Another 50 aid vehicles arrived in Madaya and Zabadani, two other regime-besieged towns near Damascus.
The UN has demanded unhindered access to all besieged areas of the country, where it says hundreds of thousands of people are trapped by fighting and deliberate blockades by Syria's various warring sides.
The UN is struggling to deliver aid to about 4.5 million Syrians who live in hard-to-reach areas, including nearly 400,000 people in besieged areas.
In the meantime, a draft U.S.-Russian plan calls for a cessation of hostilities in Syria to begin on Feb. 27 but to exclude ISIS and Al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front militants, two Western diplomatic sources said Monday.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report by the Al-Jazeera television network, which also reported that the draft calls on Syrian parties to agree to the cessation of hostilities by midday on Feb. 26. One of the sources said this was accurate, but the second was unable to confirm it.
The fighting in Syria started as an unarmed uprising against Assad in March 2011, but has since expanded into a full-on conflict that has killed more than 260,000 people, according to UN estimates. (With agencies)
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