The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the displacement of about 9400 persons from the Syrian South…preparations are underway for transporting a new batch including hundreds of people from Daraa countryside towards the Syrian North

Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has received information reporting that preparations are underway in the north-western countryside of Daraa, to transport a new batch of displaced people of fighters and citizens to the Syrian North, and intersected sources confirmed that the preparations have almost completed to start transporting the 4th patch which is composed of hundreds of citizens and fighters with their families of those who refuse the agreement of the regime with the representatives of Nawa area and Daraa countryside, on buses when the boarding process is completed, to catch up with thousands of displaced people of those who preceded them at a number of batches to the Syrian North, while the Syrian Observatory published about 72 hours, that the Syrian south lives different events, in which both scenes are different and their destinations also differ because of the agreements of the “settlement and reconciliation”, which split the one scenes into two, where one of both scenes is based on the return of displaced people to their villages and towns; many of which were looted by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and the other scene is the displacement from the south of the country to its north, and with the arrival of the 3rd convoy coming out of Daraa Province on Tuesday morning, the 24th of July 2018, have raised to at least 9430 people including about 3300 fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions and about 4800 children and women, the number of people who have been displaced in 6 successive batches, including 3 from Daraa province, where the batches came out of Daraa city, Mahjeh town, Nawa city, and from Bosra al-Sham area in Daraa province, while the other section was displaced from the countryside of al-Quneitra province and all convoys arrived in the Syrian north.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored that the 2 convoys of Daraa and Quneitra were held by the al-Rida militia and other members of the gunmen loyal to the regime of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, who surrounded Daraa and Quneitra convoys which are carrying about 3400 people on board at outskirts of Homs city central Syria; while both convoys were heading towards the Syrian north according to the displacement agreement that took place in the area, and the Syrian Observatory learned from reliable sources that the reasons for the detention were attempts by these militias to pressure parties of the agreement to uncover the fate of the remaining abductees of the town of Ishtabraq, in addition to revealing the fate of tens of missing persons in al-Rashedin bombing that took place in April 2017, which caused a massacre of demographic change in which about 130 people were killed –mostly from the displaced people of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya towns– including more than 80 children and women, and tens of others were injured with varying severity, and also tens of other went missing, after they were targeted by a booby-trapped vehicle in al-Rashedin area while they were waiting to move towards areas controlled by the regime forces in Aleppo.