Besieging Al-Rukban camp | Two “International Coalition” helicopters fly over the camp at low altitude

SOHR activists have monitored two “International Coalition” helicopters flying over Al-Rukban camp near the Jordan-Iraqi-Syrian borders.

According to reliable SOHR sources, the helicopters were flying at low altitude in a circular motion two consecutive times for nearly half an hour, before leaving Syrian territory to Jordan, without knowing the reasons.

It is worth noting that this is the first incident of its kind.

This comes in light with the siege imposed around the camp, and the deteriorating living conditions.

SOHR activists reported that checkpoints of the regime and their loyal militias deployed in the vicinity of Al-Rukban camp “Al-Mansy” “the forgotten” in the Syrian desert in the 55 kilometers zone at the eastern borders of Syria with Iraq and Jordan, prevented the entry of nutrition completely to the camp from five days ago, leading to the lack of most essential food products from markets and lack of flour from the only bakery in the camp, where the manager of the bakery announced that they had enough flour for two more days.

Checkpoints of the regime had prevented the entry of nutrition products to Al-Rukban camp during the second and third months of 2022 and imposed large royalties on merchants’ vehicles, leading to the raise of prices of nutrition products inside the camp, which turned into a large “prison.”

These events coincided with deportation campaigns of families from Al-Rukban camp, which escalated recently due to the deteriorating living conditions in the camp that suffers harsh humanitarian conditions with ignorance of organizations, in addition to the increase of prices of essential products due to the royalties imposed by regime checkpoints on nutrition vehicles entering the camp, and lack of job opportunities inside the camp.

It is worth noting that Al-Rukban camp has turned into a forgotten large prison in the Syrian desert and holds nearly 8,500 displaced Syrians from different areas of Syria.