Deporting Syrians to “hell” | Jordan deports Syrian family and two young men to besieged Al-Rukban camp amid catastrophic living conditions

SOHR activists have reported seeing the arrival of a family from Al-Waer neighborhood in Homs and two young people from Daraa city to Al-Rukban camp in the 55-kilometre zone at Syria-Iraq-Jordan border triangle , which is besieged by Iranian-backed militias and regime forces after being deported by Jordan.

It is worth noting that the cases of inhabitants leaving Al-Rukban camp escalated recently over the dreadful living conditions in the camp in light of the suspension of assistance provided by humanitarian organisations. In addition, the prices of basic products have reached levels unaffordable by many because of levies imposed by regime checkpoints on trucks transporting food to the camp, as well as the lack of job opportunities. All these factors have turned the camp, which hosts nearly 8,500 displaced Syrian people from various provinces, into a “large prison” in the Syrian desert.

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.