About 1,500 rebel soldiers have been evacuated from that same area, this Sunday; Dozens of villages that were in the hands of the combatants have passed into the control of the Syrian Army.
More than 20,000 civilians have fled in the last 24 hours from areas controlled by the Khaled bin Walid Army, linked to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS), in the province of Deraa, located in southern Syria, on the border with Jordan ; the flight was carried out to leave for areas controlled by the Syrian Government. Meanwhile, about 1,500 rebel soldiers have been evacuated from this same area on Sunday, to the town of Idlib, in the north of the country, according to Russian military sources quoted by RIA Novosti.
In that province, dozens of villages that were in the hands of the combatants have passed to the control of the Syrian Army, with the mediation of the Russian officers. The Syrian government and its allies are intensifying their offensive, with the aim of completely controlling the southern region of the country.
The Syrian Observatory on Human Rights has reported that the flight of 20,000 civilians occurs while air strikes by the Government and its allies against the Yarmuk River basin in western Deraa continue. Some 10,000 civilians would remain trapped in the villages and towns of the basin, according to the Observatory, whose headquarters are in the United Kingdom but which has a wide network of collaborators in the field.
Last Friday, at least 32 civilians, including eleven children, lost their lives in towns in the Yarmuk river basin due to attacks from Damascus and Moscow, according to the NGO.
Border area with Jordan and Israel
The province of Deraa and neighboring Al Quneitra border Jordan and the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. These countries have maintained a firm position to keep their borders closed to displaced people fleeing the military campaign, despite international pressure; However, Jordan announced last night that it will allow the entry of 800 Syrians who worked in the Syrian Civil Defense - rescue group that operates in areas beyond the control of the Damascus regime (before the advance of the Syrian Army) and known as "white helmets" - through the dividing line with the busy Golan Heights.
Those 800 Syrians will be resettled in the next three months in the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada. It is the first time that Jordan allows new Syrian refugees to enter its territory after it closed its borders last year and declared those areas as "closed militarized zones".
1,500 rebels, evacuated
In parallel, 1,500 rebels from the city of Deraa have been evacuated: "Some 45 buses with 2,200 people, 1,500 of them fighters, left the areas of Deraa controlled by the terrorist group Frente al Nusra," Russian military sources have reported. at the time they have specified that the vehicles are heading to Idlib.
The armed factions have delivered to the Syrian forces in the last two weeks 26 tanks and hundreds of firearms in the framework of the reconciliation process.