Al-Rukban camp | Four new families flee dire living conditions for regime-held areas with no guarantees

Four families have left Al-Rukban camp in the 55-kilometres zone at the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border triangle for Homs in areas controlled by the Syrian regime with no security guarantees protecting them from arbitrary arrests.

According to SOHR activists, the four families who left the camp are as follows:

• Two families from Al-Qaryatayn city in eastern Homs countryside.

• A family of “Al-A’mor” tribe.

• A family of “Al-Naa’ym” tribe.

Accordingly, the number of families of tens of people which have left Al-Rukban camp since early August has reached 26; they left in ten batches as follows:

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

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

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

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

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

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

• August 21: A family left for Palmyra city.

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

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

• September 4: Four families headed to Homs and its countryside.

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.