It used to provide fresh food for the Syrian capital; now its hungry people are queuing for bread handouts from a truck.
For over a week now Syrian government flags have flown over Douma, the biggest town in the agricultural eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, since rebels there surrendered after a five year siege.
Those queueing said an alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad, which prompted Western airstrikes on Saturday, had driven them to give up — although Assad says there was no such attack.