Four families flee Al-Rukban camp | Raising the number of families to nine since June

Homs province: SOHR activists have reported that four families left Al-Rukban camp near the junction of Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian borders towards Homs province, which are two families of Al-Omor tribe, a family from Al-Qaryatain city and a family from Mahin city in Homs countryside, due to the harsh living conditions in the camp including difficulties in securing drinking water, food and medicine, in addition to several dust storms hitting the camp, the last of which was on June 25.

Accordingly, the number of families that left Al-Rukban camp rose to nine since June.

On June 23, SOHR sources reported that on June 12, two families from Palmyra and Al-Qaryateen in Homs countryside left Al-Rukban camp for regime-held areas.

On June 19, three families of Bani Khalid tribe left Al-Rukban camp for regime-held areas.

It is worth noting that the decline in the number of families leaving Al-Rukban camps is due to preventing young men from 18 years old to the age of 40 to leave the camp by Maghaweer Al-Thawrah after promising the families of joining a young man from each family in the faction.

On June 4, SOHR activists reported that displaced people from Al-Qaryatain city, eastern countryside of Homs, who live in Al-Rukban camp, formed a delegation of five persons to negotiate with regime and secure the return of displaced people to their city.

This came in light of dire living conditions in the camp, which had been turned the camp, which hosts nearly 8,500 displaced Syrian people from various provinces, into a “large prison” in the Syrian desert.