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DAMASCUS, March 13-- After being trapped in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of Damascus for six years, civilians who managed to evacuate the rebel-held areas could finally breathe a sigh of relief. In every war, the civilians seem to be those suffering most and the scars left are so deep that their lives are full of sorrowful memories. For the civilians leaving rebel-held areas in Eastern Ghouta, what they could hardly forget is the tough living conditions in their hometowns where they suffer from the lack of medicine and food amid the ongoing military showdown. A total of 146 civilians, 44 women, 24 men and 78 children, left rebel-held areas in Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday after long days of waiting to move to safe places. The civilians, mainly people with medical conditions and children, reached the government-controlled Wafidin area in the northeast of Damascus through a humanitarian corridor set up between Wafidin and the adjacent rebel-held Douma district in Eastern Ghouta. Those civilians are from different parts of Eastern Ghouta but gathered in Douma before crossing into Wafidin. It is the first major civilian convoy to leave the area since the corridor was set up 14 days ago for the evacuation of civilians after a Russian-backed humanitarian pause went into force. The civilians were taken to a temporary shelter at a school in the Wafidin area, where the children were vaccinated immediately. | 
