After it entered the controlled areas of the Turkish forces… the convoy of the Eastern Qalamoun displaced people catch up with al-Dumayr convoy to Afrin area as a part of the continued Turkish operation to resettle them

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the convoy of the people displaced from the Eastern Qalamoun which includes about 44 buses carrying hundreds of citizens and fighters with their families, who rejected the agreement between representatives of the area with the Russians and representatives of the regime, and headed to the Syrian North, became close to Jendires area which they were transferred to, after they entered the controlled areas of the forces of the “Euphrates Shield” Operation, where they were transferred after Afrin had been chosen as a destination for the people displaced from the Eastern Qalamoun, while the transfer of the displaced people comes after transferring hundreds of the people displaced from al-Dumayr area in the Eastern Qalamoun to Jendires area in the south-western countryside of Afrin.

And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that it monitored that the displaced people coming from al-Dumayr area of fighters and citizens, were transferred to Jendires area in the south-west of Afrin area, as a part of preparations by the Turkish authorities to settle them down in the area whose residents have been abandoned from, and large spaces of which have been destroyed, as a result of the Turkish aerial and ground shelling on the area during Operation “Olive Branch” which was launched on the 20th of January 2018, and during which Turkey and its allied factions imposed their control over the entire area of Afrin, while reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights the escalation of transferring the displaced people from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus and the countryside of the capital, to Afrin area which hundreds of thousands of its residents have been displaced from, as a result of Operation “Olive Branch” led by Turkey with the participation of the Syrian rebel and Islamic opposition factions, where the SOHR monitored the arrival of 700 families of the people displaced from the controlled areas of Al-Rahman Corps in the Eastern Ghouta, in Afrin area where they have been settled down by the Turkish authorities after an earlier coordination between the both parties, and the people who have been settled in Afrin included the leader of Al-Rahman Corps (Abdul Nasr Shamir), and tens of the commanders and members of Al-Rahman Corps with their families, while hundreds of citizens of Ghouta displaced people, refused to move from Idlib to Afrin explaining that they refuse to settle in houses of residents who were forces to leave their areas and houses, and the transfer of the displaced people and settling them down in Jendires area and other areas in Afrin, is coincided with information about preparations for opening an unofficial border crossing between the Turkish forces’ controlled areas in Afrin, and Iskenderun, after establishing a local committee to control Jendires area.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned few days ago that a meeting took place between the leadership of Al-Rahman Corps presented in the Syrian North and the Turkish intelligence, preparing for settling the fighters of Al-Rahman Corps and their families as well as other displaced people from the Eastern Ghouta, in Afrin area in the north-western part of Aleppo province, where they were settled in the area. The SOHR confirmed that the families are displaced people from areas controlled by Al-Rahman Corps and they arrived to the Syrian north in March, and in the same context, the same sources confirmed to the SOHR that many displaced people from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus refused to settle in Afrin. They refused during talks held by the displaced people of the Eastern Ghouta on their settlement in houses in Afrin area, where the Turkish forces provide them houses owned by people displaced from Afrin. The displaced people of the Eastern Ghouta expressed their resentment of this decision imposed by the Turkish authorities on the displaced people of Ghouta, through carrying out an organized demographic change by settling the displaced people of the Eastern Ghouta in houses owned by the displaced people of Afrin. They said that refuse any demographic change carried out by the regime forces and Russian in their areas which they left after violent shelling which left about 1800 civilian martyrs and more than 6 thousand injured.