(Translation by Dani Murad)
As the battle for the Qalamoun region still raging, regime forces bombarded two days ago the village of "Bassima" in Damascus countryside with explosive barrels and mortar shells, meanwhile the machine guns of the Republican Guard (104) was targeting the majority of villages in the area with heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft missiles, and snipers.
And according to sources in the area, some rebels entered the building of Ein Al-Fija, 15 kilometers northwest of Damascus, a spring which provides fresh drinking water to many of the capital’s neighborhoods, and they wanted to cut off its water from the entire city of Damascus and its suburbs.
Therefore, the majority of people in the village headed toward the building, where quarrels and verbal attacks took place, and finally they agreed to never cut the water supply in the month Ramadan, except by an unanimous decision agreed by the majority of the village’s people and rebels, and as a result, the water has been re-pumped again to Damascus as it was before, However, as for water conservation, rebels confirmed that they had nothing to do with that, due to brigades’ desire to spare Damascus any confusion.
Moreover, activists from the area have informed Zaman Alwasl that the contamination of fresh water that occurred in the spring was the result of regime’s bombardment, when it targeted the river’s large course “al- tineen” which passes through the villages of Ein Khadra, Bassima, Ashrafiet Al Wadi, Jdeidet el-Shibani, Jamraya, Al-Hamah, an then reaches the city of Damascus .
And as a consequence of targeting the river’s course“al- tineen”, which has a door at “Bassima” village, the freshwater was instantly mixed with oil fuel “diesel” due to the explosion that affected the pumping engines at the door that contained diesel, which completely contradicts what have been announced through regime’s pro TVs of rebels’ attempt to poison the spring.
Furthermore, people of Ein Al-Fija and Wadi Barada in addition to rebels have expressed their willingness to let the spring’s freshwater reaches Damascus at all times, saying in a statement: “even if people of Damascus have forsaken us to die under the mercy of barrels, and didn’t denounce nor condemn or even ask for their right when the spring basin was bombed and its water level became less, we won’t allow anyone to cut off the water in the holy month of Ramadan.”
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