Starting last Wednesday, two mobile checkpoints are now operating near the Rukban camp in Syria, dove 40.000 people are blocked by US-backed militiamen.
More than 220.000 Syrian refugees returned to their previous places of residence with the support of the Russian army, he communicated the head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Sergey Solomatin.
“The return of refugees to their previous places of residence continues. With the help of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, Ten checkpoints were opened, including an air checkpoint and a sea checkpoint, al 20 February 2019, 222.884 people have returned home”, Solomatin reported.
He added that since last Wednesday, two mobile checkpoints are now operating near the Rukban camp in Syria, within the area of 55 kilometers around the US military base of Al-Tanf.
Together with the Russian military, members of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent are stationed at checkpoints, ready to provide medical assistance to refugees leaving Rukban camp.
Previously, a spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry said that the refugees were in the Rukban camp “in inhumane conditions” and they urged that at least women and children be allowed to leave the camp.
Rukban refugee camp is located near the city of Al-Tanf, in the province of Homs, a 20 kilometers from a US military base, near which the American armed forces have previously trained opposition militiamen to the Syrian government. In the 2014, when ISIS terrorists began their invasion of Syria, tens of thousands of Syrians from the eastern provinces have fled to the Al-Tanf area hoping to cross into Jordan.
However, the Jordanian authorities closed the border for security reasons, as well as due to economic difficulties. This is how the Rukban refugee camp was formed. Second the World Health Organization, they currently live in this camp approximately 40.000 people in “deplorable conditions”.
Source – https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-siria_oltre_220000_rifugiati_tornano_alle_loro_case_con_il_supporto_dellesercito_russo/8_27281/?fbclid=IwAR29sQeVE_PwmqfJvgclCs70DLqODc-suq7jAHCz55KQREE8YX-0-1Cp4_s
