Pro-Iranian militias bring their families to Syria’s Palmyra
PALMYRA, Syria (North Press) – Over the past 24 hours, dozens of Iraqi families whose sons serve in Iranian-backed factions in the Syrian Desert arrived in Palmyra and its neighboring villages.
More than 40 Iraqi families arrived in the al-Sukhnah area and the city of Palmyra in the eastern desert of Homs with the aim of residing there as a result of the presence of their sons in Syria in the ranks of Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba and Liwa Fatemiyoun, said Mudar al-Hussein (a pseudonym), a member of Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba.
These families came via the Palmyra-Deir ez-Zor road after coming from Iraqi territory, while others will move from the countryside of Deir ez-Zor and the capital Damascus to live close to their sons in the Syrian desert, he added.
Residents of the eastern countryside of Homs believe that the pro-Iranian militias are carrying out a process of demographic change in the region by seizing homes, establishing headquarters and offices for them, and then settling the families of their members, which will turn it into a new stronghold, as they do in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which is under the government forces’ control.
Houses that were previously seized because their owners don’t live in the areas controlled by government forces are being handed over to the families of these militias, according to the source in Harakat al-Nujaba, who said that these houses have been recently restored.