After Handing Over the Heavy and Medium Weapons by Their Factions, North of Homs And South of Hama Start Preparing the First Convoy of Displaced People Towards the Syrian North
Homs province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored preparations taking place for the entry of buses into the northern countryside of Homs and the southern countryside of Hama, in preparation to relocate the fighters and their families and other civilians who refused the agreement between the representatives of north Homs and south Hama, and, the Russians and the regime, where the people wishing to go out to the north of Syria are being gathered, waiting for the buses to pick them up, where the first batch is expected to be displaced today towards Aleppo countryside. This displacement process completes the implementation of the terms of the agreement between the 3 parties, where the heavy and medium size weapons had been handed over by the factions operating in the northern countryside of Homs and southern countryside of Hama yesterday.
The Syrian Observatory published after the afternoon of Wednesday, the 2nd of May 2018 that it monitored the end of the meeting in the northern countryside of Homs, about the fate of the area and the fate of the southern countryside of Hama, and the SOHR learned from a number of intersected sources, that the meeting which lasted for more than 6 hours ended with a consensus between the both parties (representatives of the regime and Russians on one hand, and representatives of the northern countryside of Homs and the southern countryside of Hama on the other), on completing the preparations of the lists of the displaced people from the cities, towns and villages of the both areas, and handing over the heavy and medium weapons in 72 hours, to start the displacement processor towards the Syrian North -Jarabulus and Idlib-, so that those who refuse the agreement will leave and the situations of the fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions operating in the area and the dissidents who want to stay, will be settled, also the regime’s institutions will return to work, the return of students to schools and universities will be organized and the facilities will be reactivated as well as working on improving them, in addition to the entry of the Russian Military Police to the area.
And the sources confirmed to the SOHR that these conditions which includes both northern and southern countryside of Homs, were preceded by conditions including the handing over of heavy weapons by the factions and the entry of Russian military police with the reactivation of the government departments, and the meetings were coincided with ongoing ceasefire since the afternoon of Sunday in the northern countryside of Homs and the adjacent southern countryside of Hama, after the meeting that took place between representatives of both areas and between representative of the Russians and the regime, within the framework of search for a solution concerning the situation of both countryside, which witnessed yesterday, Monday, the 30th of April 2018, following a series of airstrikes and raids by warplanes and helicopters, mostly concentrated on the northern countryside of Homs, also the bombardment targeted areas in the southeastern countryside of Hama, which came after bringing large military reinforcements to both northern countryside of Homs and southern countryside of Hama, where the SOHR monitored that the regime forces have sent large military reinforcements of members, material, weapons and armored vehicles to the area, preparing for carrying out a military operation in the area aims to end the presence of the factions in the area and regain the control of the area by the regime forces.