The Minister of Local Administration and Environment, Hussein Makhlouf, confirmed the ongoing return of refugees in parallel with the rehabilitation of infrastructure.
During the joint Syrian-Russian conference, Makhlouf explained that thousands of refugees are continuing to return from Jordan and Lebanon through border crossings, in addition to the return of tens of thousands of internally displaced persons. Makhlouf noted that the state is working to gradually return the displaced to the Yarmouk camp in Damascus, alongside infrastructure rehabilitation, and that the state is facilitating the return of displaced persons to Wadi Barada, Bseima, and Ein Fijeh in rural Damascus as infrastructure is restored.
Makhlouf pointed to the practices of terrorist gangs that tighten their siege on Syrians in the camps in Idlib, preventing them from crossing to the liberated side, despite the significant preparations made by the Syrian state to welcome all our citizens by opening crossing points. He added that these practices prove that the claims made by these groups are nothing but hypocrisy, lies, and slander, aimed at covering up the Turkish Muslim Brotherhood's terrorist ambitions that exercise all forms of oppression and pressure to entrench the status quo.
