Escaping inhumane conditions | New batch of displaced families leave Al-Rokban camp
A new batch of four families has left Al-Rokban camp towards Homs province, a family from Douma city in Rif Dimashq, and three families from Naim tribe, due to poor living conditions in the camp.
The displaced people suffer from tragic conditions due to windstorms that hit their tents and damaged them in Al-Rokban camp, which is located in a 55-kilometres zone.
Consequently, the number of families leaving the camp today, on December 20, rises to 7.
Today, SOHR activists reported that three families left Al-Rokban camp in the Syrian desert, at the Syria-Iraq-Jordan border triangle.
According to Syrian Observatory activists, the families, who are from Damer area in Rif Damascus and Aleppo countryside, left the camp and headed to regime-held areas in Homs province due to the inhumane conditions in the camp.
SOHR activists have reported that six families from Bani Khalid, Al-Fawarah, and Al-Amor tribes left Al-Rokban camp today, heading to regime-held areas in Homs province, without any guarantees of a safe return. The families have left the camp, which is on Syria-Iraq-Jordan border triangle, due to the poor living conditions in the camp. The camp is suffering from inhumane conditions in light of the suspension of assistance provided by humanitarian organizations, the high cost of living, and the lack of job opportunities. These factors have led to turning the camp into a “large prison” in the Syrian desert.
On December 12, SOHR activists reported that regime security services arrested three people after they had returned to regime-held areas in Homs city from Al-Rukban camp.
According to SOHR sources, the arrested people had returned to Homs city from Al-Rukban camp in late October when they settled their security status and inhabited in a school in Homs city, which had been turned by regime forces into a “shelter centre” to people who struck “reconciliations”.
In late October, SOHR sources reported that nearly ten families from Homs, Hama, and Daraa left al-Rukban camp, heading to regime-held areas without any guarantees ensuring a safe return for them. The families left the camp which is located on the Syria-Iraq-Jordan border triangle due to the dire living situation in light of the suspension of assistance provided by humanitarian organizations, the astronomically inflated prices of food and essential products, and lack of job opportunities in the camp.