In conjunction with handing over the factions’ weapons west of Daraa, buses reach al-Mahjeh area and preparations underway for a new displacement process in Nawa city and the northern countryside of Daraa
Daraa Province, the Syrian Observatory for human rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored several buses enter Mahjeh area in the northern countryside of Daraa, to carry out a displacement from the areas adjacent to al-Lajat area towards the Syrian north, where hundreds of people gathered at place of the gathering of the buses, after several of which have entered, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources confirming that the displacement is expected to take place within the next 24 hours from Nawa city in the northwestern countryside of Daraa towards the Syrian north, based on a previous agreement with representatives of Nawa Area about the stay of people who accept the agreement and “settle their situations”, and displacing those who refuse the agreement towards the Syrian north, and handing over the heavy and medium weapons to the regime forces, and temporary keeping some of them because areas that are controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid –which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization– are near, the deployment of the regime forces in the hills and locations around the city, and the return of government institutions to it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored the handover of heavy and medium-sized weapons to the regime forces after these towns entered in the “reconciliation”, and were added to regime forces’-controlled areas in Daraa, where the regime forces currently control all the areas that were under the control of the factions.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 18th of July 2018 that an agreement was reached on Nawa area, the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the “settlement” that was reached in Nawa area is based on handing over the hills around Nawa town to the regime forces and the withdrawal of the factions, and handing over a part of the heavy and medium weapons and temporarily keeping some of them due to the close proximity to the areas that are controlled by Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization, thereafter, a process of settling the situations of civilians, fighters, and the defected persons who want to settle their situations, and transfer those who refuse the “reconciliation” to the Syrian north, dissidents are chosen between returning to the military service or demobilizing, and granting a six months period to those who are in the age of the compulsory service, the agreement also confirms that the regime forces will not enter Nawa and they will just raise the internationally-recognized flag of the regime in the city, which has the largest people density in Daraa province, and the return of regime’s government institutions, the service institutions, and employees to their work in Nawa city.