国际英语资讯:Feature: Civilians evacute Syrias Eastern Ghouta after six-year siege_时事

国际英语资讯:Feature: Civilians evacute Syrias Eastern Ghouta after six-year siege

"The civilians inside Eastern Ghouta wish to leave that area because of the hard living conditions, soaring prices as well as fear and panic," he said.

The evacuation of civilians from Ghouta came a day after the Islam Army, the major rebel group in the Eastern Ghouta, announced a deal with Russia over the evacuation of the wounded from the area.

The rebel group said in a statement that an agreement has been reached with Russians to allow the UN to evacuate wounded people out of Eastern Ghouta for medical treatment.

The evacuation will take place in batches, it added.

"The agreement comes as a result of the government siege on areas in Eastern Ghouta, with the lack of medication and "targeting of medical facilities," the statement claimed.

The Islam Army is a Saudi-backed rebel group mainly positioned in the Douma district in northern Eastern Ghouta.

The situation in Eastern Ghouta has flared up since late February following a wide-scale military operation by the Syrian army to dislodge al-Qaida-linked groups from the area.

On Sunday, the Syrian army split Eastern Ghouta into three parts, by tightening the siege on Douma in the north, the city of Harasta in the west and other towns and villages south of the region.

Eastern Ghouta, a 105-square-km agricultural region consisting of several towns and farmlands, constitutes the last threat to Damascus given its proximity to government-controlled neighbourhoods east of the capital and continuing mortar attacks on residential areas there.