Hundreds of Syrian refugees return to their country from Lebanon and Jordan
North-Press Agency
Hundreds of Syrian refugees have recently returned to their country, after they’d fled military operations and detentions in the previous years since 2011.
According to the Russian Reconciliation Center between the warring parties and monitoring the movements of Syrian refugees, over the past two days, more than 1825 refugees have returned back to Syria.
The return of refugees was divided as follows:
407 refugees, including 122 women and 207 children returned from Lebanon via border crossings of Jdeidet Yabous and Tal-Kalakh.
While 1418 refugees, including 425 women and 723 children have returned from Jordan via Nasib Border crossing.
The number of returned refugees to Syria from Jordan including had reached 198,127, including 101,032 children and 59,472 women, returned from Jordan via Nasib border crossing since the second half of July 2018.
The center also noted the return of Syrian refugees to their areas of residence in Syria directly from IDP camps all over different areas of Syria.
It’s worth mentioning that there are five border-crossings between Syria and Lebanon: Jdeidet Yabous, Al-Dabusiya west of Homs, Josiah crossing in Al-Qusayr in Homs countryside, Tal-Kalakh, and Tartous crossing.
While Nasib border crossing between Syria and Jordan was reopened in July 2018 after being closed for three years, following the Syrian government took control over the southern parts of the country.
During a visit of the French Defense Minister Florence Parly to the Lebanese capital Beirut, the Lebanese President Michel Aoun has recently confirmed “Lebanon’s insistence on the return of Syrian refugees to their country without waiting for a political solution for the Syrian crisis”.
Aoun justified the insistence to the reduction of tensions in Syria to about 10 percent of the Syrian territories, pointing out that the return of those who wish to, is still on, and that the number of returnees who had already returned is “about 300,000 Syrian refugees.”
Aoun said: “The Lebanese authorities have not been informed of any complaint about pressure or distress by departing refugees, after their return”, stressing the Lebanese state’s ability to negotiate directly with the Syrian government on the continued return of refugees.
The Senior Adviser to the US President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner pledged that “Lebanon will receive large sums of money and accelerate the return of Syrian refugees to their country, in return for encouraging Palestinians to emigrate.”