Al-Rokban camp since early December | 18 families leaves with no guarantees
SOHR activists have reported that a new batch of families has left Al-Rokban camp, which is in a 55-kilometres zone at Syria-Iraq-Jordan border triangle, as five families of Bani Khalid tribe have left the camp towards Homs province.
It is worth noting that any member of Bani Khalid tribe who leaves the camp, should deal with a broker “Matrod Al-Ghafili” who is a notable tribe dignitary, a drug dealer in Homs province, and also has a strong relationship with Lebanese “Hezbollah” and Maher al-Assad, brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
This batch of 18 families leaving Al-Rokban camp is the fifth batch since early December.
The Syrian Observatory reviews the details of their leaving as follows:
On December 20, SOHR activists reported that 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.
On December 20, 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.
On December 15, SOHR activists 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.
It is worth noting that the numbers of displaced people who leave the camp have recently escalated as 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.