More than 900 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring said on Thursday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st February, 2019) More than 900 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring said on Thursday.
"Over the past 24 hours, a total of 920 refugees returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 133 people ([including] 40 women and 68 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh checkpoints; 787 people ([including] 236 women and 401 children) returned from Jordan via the Nassib checkpoint," the center said in its daily bulletin.
According to the bulletin, 106 internally displaced persons have also returned to their place of permanent residence in the country within past 24 hours.
Russia has held one humanitarian operation over the given period, delivering 500 food packs with a total weight of over two tonnes to a settlement in Hama province. Russia's Kadyrov Regional Public Fund has also carried one humanitarian action in the province of Aleppo, delivering a tonne of bread to local residents.
Syrian engineering units continue mine-clearance operations, the center said. Over the past day, they found and defused 33 explosive devices, clearing 2.3 hectares (5.7 acres) of the Syrian territory.
As the Syrian government has regained control over most of the country's territories that were seized by terrorists, it is now focused on creating favorable conditions for repatriating refugees. Moscow is assisting Damascus in this process, along with providing humanitarian aid to civilians and being a guarantor of the ceasefire.
