Poor health conditions | Two families, several young men and three women leave Al-Rukban camp, heading to regime-controlled areas

SOHR sources have reported that two families of Bani Khalid tribe, several young men and three women have left Al-Rukban camp which is located near the Syria-Iraq-Jordan border triangle, heading towards the regime-controlled city of Homs. These people, who obtained no guarantees protecting them from arbitrary arrests, have left to Homs city in order to receive medical treatment in light of the disastrous humanitarian situation in the camp.

 

Accordingly, the number of families which have left Al-Rukban camp since early August has reached 22; they left in nine batches as follows:

 

• August 1: Three families: two of Al-Fawa’erah tribe and one from Deir Ezzor, left to Homs city.

 

• August 3: Four families of Bani Khalid tribe left to Homs city.

 

• August 10: Two families from Palmyra city left to Homs city.

 

• August 13: Two families of Al-Ammour left to Homs city.

 

• August 13: Three families: a family from Mahin city, a family from Al-Qaryatayn and a family of Bani Khalid tribe, left to Homs city.

 

• August 17: Three families of Al-Na’eem tribe left to Homs city.

 

• August 21: A family left to Palmyra city.

 

• August 30: Two families left to Mahin city and Aleppo countryside.

 

• September 2: Two families, several young men and three women left to Homs city.

 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stresses the right of Syrian civilians in Al-Rukban camp to obtain food, drinking water and health and medical care, and calls for intensifying efforts to put an end to the sufferings of the camp’s inhabitants.

 

SOHR also calls upon all relevant organisations to allow sick people and emergency cases in the camp inhabitant to receive treatment in Jordanian hospitals and/or to open a hospital with specialised doctors inside the camp.