Among them is a recording of a Russian general.. Al-Jazeera obtains evidence from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons condemning the Damascus regime

Al-Jazeera obtained a copy of evidence provided by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in its latest report issued at the end of last January, in which it accused the Syrian regime of using chemical weapons in the city of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, in the countryside of Damascus in 2018.

Among the evidence obtained by Al-Jazeera was an audio recording of Russian General Alexander Zorin, who is responsible for negotiating on behalf of the Russian forces in Syria with the armed Syrian opposition in Eastern Ghouta.

According to the recording, the Russian general threatened the leaders of the "Jaysh al-Islam" faction affiliated with the opposition to use "heavy weapons" if they did not lay down their arms, before the city of Douma, east of Damascus, was bombed with chemical weapons.

Al-Jazeera also obtained pictures of the barrels with which the Syrian regime bombed Duma, which were carrying chemicals.

7 buried bodies

In the same context, the Chemical Violations Documentation Center in Syria reported to Al-Jazeera that it had obtained the coordinates of the locations of 7 bodies buried in places unknown to the Syrian regime, as their owners were killed in the chemical bombardment of Douma.

Nidal Shaikhani, the director of the Documentation Center, stated that if the regime evacuated the city of Douma, he could work to transfer the bodies safely, and that these bodies bore evidence of the regime's use of chemical weapons.

The Chemical Violations Documentation Center in Syria said - in a post on its Facebook account on Friday - that the UN Security Council will hold a session next Tuesday regarding the bombing of the city of Douma by the Syrian regime forces with chemical weapons.

On January 27, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that an investigation that lasted nearly two years concluded that at least one government military helicopter dropped chlorine gas cylinders on residential buildings in the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people.

The system denies

However, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied accusing the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons of using chemical weapons in the city of Douma in 2018 when it was under the control of opposition fighters.

The ministry said - in a statement - that the organization's report did not include any evidence of what it described as the alleged incident, adding that Syria rejects what was stated in it altogether.

And she added that the investigation team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons did not take into account what it called the objective observations raised by countries, experts, academics, and media reports that the incident was "fabricated," according to the expression of the statement.