In conjunction with the continuation of tragic situation and after they got fed up with such conditions…hundreds of inhabitants of the ignored camp of al-Rokban leave towards the controlled areas of the regime forces after carrying out “settlements”

The ignored camp of al-Rokban which is located in the Syrian – Jordanian – Iraqi border triangle, in the far south-east of Syria, is witnessing continued tragic situations that affect tens of thousands of people who live in this camp, where prices of the foodstuffs that are sold in the camp are getting higher amid the lack of milk for babies and some of medicines that the camp’s inhabitants need, in addition to the continuation of the regime forces to block the way to the camp, all of these reasons in addition to the deaths witnessed in the camp due to the lack of medical care and the shortage of needed medicine and food, pushed hundreds of people to take the risk and leave the camp towards the controlled areas of the regime forces through having their situations settled through personal mediations by godfathers in the area there, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained detailed information from local and civil sources in the camp about the settlements, where the sources informed the Syrian Observatory that the departure is carried out through individuals with no any guarantors, where the number of those who have left the camp since February 2019, reached about 700 persons the largest batch of them left last week, where it included 150 persons, while the departure is carried out through paying a sum of money reaches SYP 200,000, that each family wants to leave pay to the vehicle which take them to the controlled areas of the regime forces, and there, they have to pay another varied sum of money to the regime forces in return for conducting a “settlement”, where some families paid SYP 50,000 and other families paid multiple sums of money reached SYP 300,000, after that, the evacuees are taken to shelter camps belong to the regime forces in Hisyah, Al-Ours and others, in which these camps are abandoned schools where the evacuees stay for a period until the end of needed security questioning and investigations, the sources added to the SOHR that the factions that are in control of the camp do not obstruct or prevent anyone wants to get out of it from leaving, and in the same context, the Syrian Observatory learned that a newborn infant from Palmyra city died 2 days ago, due to the lack of health care and his family’s failure to provide milk, where it is aged only 15 days, the Syrian Observatory published on the 13^th of February 2019, that it monitored the worsening of humanitarian situation of al-Rukban camp, near the Syrian – Jordanian – Iraqi border triangle in the far southeast of Syria, where civil sources from inside the camp confirmed that residents of the camp who are more than 60000 people; are suffering from difficult humanitarian situations despite the entry of a humanitarian aid convoy on the 6th of February 2019, but it is barely enough for a family of 5 people for a few days, bringing the tragedy back again in searching for the lowest necessities of life, in case other assistance delayed in entering the area, and this situations and fears come as the harsh winter continues, and the regime forces continue to closer the roads to the camp as well, which contributed to the increase in prices inside the camp, where the price of diesel fuel reached 600 SYP and the firewood reached 110 Syrian pounds, along with a significant increase in prices of the rest of the goods if they were available first, which increases the burden over the citizens in the absence of their purchasing power which worsens the situation.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 6th of February 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the entry of a new convoy of humanitarian and relief aid to al-Rukban camp, which includes more than 60000 displaced people from various Syrian areas, and the Syrian Observatory learned that a convoy of about 140 trucks carrying food, medical, and logistic assistance accompanied by medical crews, also the convoy was accompanied by for the second time by Russian vehicles, amid land and air protection from the Russian Forces until the convoy arrived in the camp, which is located in the Syrian desert near the Syrian-Jordanian border, where the aid is being unloaded to start distributing it in the area, where it will be distributed within certain sectors, and the Observatory Syrian published on the 3rd of November 2018, that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 3rd of November 2018 that Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a convoy of UN humanitarian aid heading to al-Rokban camp, which is located at the Syrian-Jordanian border near the base of the International Coalition, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the arrival of shipments of aid aboard a convoy to the camp area, which suffers from tragic humanitarian conditions, shortages of medicines, food, and lack of health care, after the interruption of aid as a result of closing the roads to the camp, were through these routes the humanitarian aid and foodstuffs used to arrive, and reliable sources confirmed that the aid had not entered the camp since April 2017, while several aid coming from Jordan were distributed during the past months.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 15th of January 2019 that tragedy is still raging in Rokban camp in the far southeast of Syria on the Syrian – Jordanian border, and the deteriorating situation continues to decline even more for its inhabitants, who fled the hell of war to be absorbed by harshness of the desert, increasing their suffering, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continued difficult living conditions, where the residents confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that this deterioration comes as a result of the rise of food prices in the camp and the difficulty of obtaining them in addition to the difficulty of the arriving to the camp, as a result of the weather and as a result of the clamp down by the regime which is preventing the arrival of food to the camp area, the Syrian Observatory also monitored the resentment of the people due to the poor medical situation, where there is no medical equipment or adequate medicines to treat the people, and Jordan prevents residents of the camp from moving to its territory for treatment, and in the middle of all this tragedy, the death found its way again to the souls of the Syrians, to be taken in a way that hundreds of Syrians have been killed with in the past years, in the capital Damascus, Rif Dimashq, and other Syrian areas, where the Syrian Observatory documented the deaths of 10 citizens since October 2018, including 4 children and 2 women, 3 of them have died since the aid arrived in early November including two children, amid information about the death of other people in different circumstances, but the Syrian Observatory was unable to document them in al-Rokban camp, which includes more than 60000 displaced people.

The , while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 24th of December 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources that the forces of Maghawir al-Thawra operating in al-Tanf area and supported by the International Coalition, are preparing to be transferred to the Syrian north, along with civilians and fighters who rejected the “reconciliation and settlement with the regime”, the intersected sources confirmed for the Syrian Observatory that preparations are underway to transfer thousands towards the Syrian north, and the reasons for the transfer from the area is that the information the factions received, where these factions are supported by the International Coalition and located in al-Tanf area on the Syrian-Iraqi border, within the Syrian desert and in the Rokban camp for the displaced people which includes more than 60 thousand displaced people, these factions were informed to prepare to be transferred to the Syrian north, because of the intention of the United States of America to withdraw its forces from the area and east of Euphrates, following the decision of the US President to withdraw his forces of the Syrian territory.

This decision ignited the resentment in al-Rokban camp and the areas that are under the protection of the International Coalition within the Syrian desert, where the residents expressed their resentment and condemnation of the decision of the US President to withdraw, leaving them to face the fate of tens of thousands of Syrians who were killed either by bombing or under torture or by other means, after the regime forces took control of their areas, and the residents of al-Rokban camp for the displaced people hold the United States, its president, and forces responsible for their lives, if they were put at risk of being killed and detained by the regime forces, their allies, and the Russians, where those in charge of al-Rokban camp announced that they prepare for a sit-in tomorrow and that they will go towards al-Tanf base; to demand the International Coalition officials to find radical solutions for them, along with their complete rejection for carrying out “reconciliations and settlements” with the regime forces, and the Syrian Observatory published in the past 48 hours that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that factions of Ahmad al-‘Abdu and Jaysh al-Maghawir; which operate in the Syrian Desert in al-Rokban camp at the Syrian-Jordanian border, carried out a raid and arrested people on the outskirts of al-Rokban camp, where they arrested 16 people of the sleeper cells of the “Islamic State” organization, where the group used to enter and exit al-Rokban camp from time to time, and the Syrian Observatory published 2 days ago that the sleeper cells of different parties, notably the “Islamic State” organization, continue to operate within areas that used to be under their control, or in areas where there are displaced people used to be in its controlled areas earlier, of who were driven by circumstances to seek shelter and a safe place to live away of killing or death, but the cells operating in different areas of the Syrian territory are still seeking more chaos, instability, and to shed more blood of which hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been poured on the Syrian soil by all parties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor the activity of more cells, this time, near International Coalition base in al-Tanf area in the Syrian desert, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received a copy of a statement issued by the office of the security Forces of Ahmad al-Abdu who are located in al-Rokban camp area near la-Tanf base and the Syrian – Jordanian border.