Madaya convoy reaches the western outskirts of Aleppo after a displacement ride of about 17 hours and about 23 months of complete besiege

 

Reliable sources informed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that a convoy carrying about 2200 displaced persons including about 400 fighters had arrived to al-Rashedin area in the western outskirts of Aleppo city, after a trip that took about 17 hours since its departure from Madaya, waiting for the convoy of Madaya to head towards Idlib Province, while the sources suggested that the convoys that got out of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya (in the northeastern countryside of Idlib and consist of 75 buses and 20 ambulances, and carry about 5000 persons, including 1300 pro-regime armed persons, which arrived since the morning of today to al-Rashedin area) will start entering Aleppo city, which is controlled by the regime forces completely since late 2016 except for neighborhoods controlled by the Kurdish forces and the Syria Democratic Forces, and other areas in the western outskirts of Aleppo city which are controlled by the factions.

Also it is expected today for the operation of getting the remaining people out of the towns of Al-Fu’ah and Kafriya to be continued; in exchange for the exit of tens of persons who remained in Beqin in Zabadani and their surroundings in the coming hours, while several thousand others have remained in the city of Madaya, they want the “reconciliation and settlement of their situation” with the regime, and some others are neutral. The siege of the city began since the first days of July 2015 by the regime forces and the Lebanese Hezbollah.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published days ago that the agreement about Zabadani and Madaya in the Rif Dimashq, Kafriya and Al-Fu’ah in the northeastern countryside of Idlib and Yarmouk camp south of the capital Damascus states:

“Complete evacuation for Kafriya and Al-Fu’ah in duration of 60 days in two phases in exchange for:

• Evacuating Zabadani and the families of Zabadani and Madaya and in the surrounding areas to the north.
• Cease-fire in the areas around al-Fu’ah and the area of south of the capital (Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahem).
• A truce for a period of 9 months in the areas mentioned above.
• Entering non-stop humanitarian aid to the mentioned areas, in addition to aid to al-Wa’er neighborhood in Homs.
• Evacuating 1500 captives from the prisons of the regime of those who were detained due to events related to the revolution (in the second phase of the agreement) without specifying the names (because of the difficulty of negotiating the file with the regime) .
• Providing mutual lists by both parties for the numbers and names of the prisoners to work on the exchange.
• Evacuating Yarmouk camp (fighters to al-Nusra in the area).

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