(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three trucks carrying food rations and medicine entered into embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Tuesday due to the Russian-brokered cessation of hostilities agreement which reached three days ago, local activists and Russian statement said.
The Russian task command in coastal Hmeimym airbase said 10 tons of aid entered Jaish al-Islam areas in the Eastern Ghouta.
8 civilians were killed overnight in Ghouta- the last major rebel stronghold near Damascus , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The deaths were the first civilian casualties in the area - since a cessation of hostilities was declared there on Saturday. The strikes, targeting the town of Arbin, wounded an additional 30 people, it said.
The Civil Defence for rural Damascus, a rescue service operating in the area, said the dead included five children and two women.
In a statement on its Facebook page, it put the number of wounded and missing at 50. The air strikes hit the area at 11 p.m. (2000 GMT), it said.
The Observatory said: "This is the first time that civilian martyrs have fallen as a result of regime or warplane bombardment since the start of the ceasefire agreement in the Eastern Ghouta".
Russia, a military ally of President Bashar al-Assad, said it had deployed military police in the Eastern Ghouta on Monday to try to enforce a de-escalation zone it said it had agreed with the Syrian opposition there.
The Syrian military declared a cessation of hostilities there on Saturday.
The regime army, with military support from Russia and Iran, has dealt the opposition a string of defeats around the capital over the last year, seizing back control of areas including Daraya and Moadamiya.
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