Weeks after their arrival in the Syrian north, about 400 displaced families decide to return to the Eastern Ghouta and begin their preparations

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable intersected sources, who confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that hundreds of families in the north of Syria are preparing to return from the areas to which they have been displaced; to their towns and cities from which they have been displaced, and in the details documented by the Syrian Observatory: about 400 families from the Eastern Ghouta of who arrived in the past weeks to the Syrian north; are preparing to return to their cities and towns from which the regime forces and Russian forces have displaced them from in the past weeks, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the return process comes after registering their names by their families at committees in the Eastern Ghouta.

the sources assured the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that these families have changed their decision of staying in the Syrian north, and preferred to return as a result of what they said: “Ignore their tragedy by humanitarian, relief and medical organizations, the lack of proper services, and the ill treatment towards them by local factions operating in the Syrian north, in addition to being persuaded by their families to return to the Eastern because of the latter’s allegations that the situation is safe”.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published earlier that about 296700 persons have gotten out of the Eastern Ghouta towards the Syrian north and regime forces’ controlled areas, and some of them stayed in the areas that have been controlled by the regime forces within the Eastern Ghouta, in the pocket controlled by Rahman Corps and in Douma city, and in the details documented by the Syrian Observatory: the number of people who stayed in the former controlled areas of Rahman Corps and former control areas of Jaysh al-Islam; is about 120 thousand people, while from the areas of Rahman Corps, Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham movement; about 86 thousand have gotten out to shelter centers within regime forces’ controlled areas in the vicinity of the Eastern Ghouta and in Rif Dimashq, while about 46400 persons have gotten out towards the Syrian north, they are: 5 thousand persons have displaced to the Syrian North from Harasta city which used to be controlled by Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement, in addition to about 41400 persons including more than 12 thousand fighters of the Islamic factions of who have displaced from Zamalka, Arbin and Jobar controlled by Al-Rahman Corps to the Syrian North, and 1300 of the previous fighters of the Islamic Etihad of Rahman Corps, their families, civilians and other activists have gotten out of Douma city, also about 22 thousand civilians have gotten out of Douma earlier towards regime forces’ controlled areas in shelter centers in the vicinity of the Eastern Ghouta and in Rif Dimashq, while about 21 thousand persons have gotten out of Douma city on buses to the north of Syria including about 7 thousand fighters of the Jaysh Al-Islam.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that it rose to more than 8000, the number of volunteers and recruited persons of the displaced people of the Eastern Ghouta in Rif Dimashq province in the shelter centers, where the process of volunteering and recruiting took place in two parallel directions, the first one is taking place in the Eastern Ghouta, through the volunteering of young men who remained in the Eastern Ghouta and joining the ranks of the regime forces, while the other one is taking place through the volunteering and recruiting in the shelter centers by young men who remained there, where the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that about 1200 young men have been recruited by registration their names at the recruitment centers of the “reconciliation and situation settlement” centers in displaced people’s camps; out of about 9000 persons aged between 17 and 45 who are present at these shelter centers, after returning women, children and elderly people from the shelter centers to their towns from which they were displaced in the Eastern Ghouta, and keeping thousands of young men under the pretext of “their situation settlement processes have not been finished yet”, along with pressure by the regime and the “reconciliation” committees on the citizens; by suggesting to them that their joining is the only solution to get out of the shelter centers and meet their families, which contradicts the Russian guarantees provided to Rahman Corps in the Eastern Ghouta, that the recruitment process will not take place before 6 months at least of the date of the full implementation of the displacement process.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was informed by reliable sources that volunteers are from the cities and towns of Douma, Hamouriyah, Arbin, Jesrin, KafrBatna, Hazza, Mesraba, Saqba, Madyara and other areas in the Eastern Ghouta, including former fighters who had joined the military action when it started in the Eastern Ghouta, but then they left it and stayed in their homes until the factions got out of them, and until displacing who refused the agreement of the factions in the Eastern Ghouta with the regime and the Russians, while the process of joining the youth and men to the ranks of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them continues, thus,  the number of who have been joined and enlisted in the ranks of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them have reached about 9200 people, since the start of displacement processes in the Eastern Ghouta and until now.