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More than 1,000 displaced Syrians return home from neighboring Lebanon

Monday, 24 December 2018 2:52 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 24 December 2018 2:57 PM ]

Syrian refugees depart from Lebanon as they are waiting in buses, sent by Syrian authorities, at al-Dabbousiya border crossing on December 24, 2018. (Photo by SANA)

More than 1,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland from various areas in neighboring Lebanon after Syrian government forces and allied fighters from popular defense groups managed to liberate their home towns from the clutches of foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorist groups.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported that the return of refugees took place in the southern Lebanese cites and districts of Tripoli, Arsal, Tyre and Nabatieh, and under the supervision of Lebanon's General Security in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Refugees returned home using buses sent by Syrian authorities, and arrived at al-Zamrani, Jdeidat Yabous, al-Dabbousiya border crossings from Lebanese territories on Monday afternoon.

The refugees underwent medical checks and anti-polio vaccines were administered to children. They were then transferred to Syria’s northern and central provinces of Idlib and Homs in addition to other areas in the crisis-stricken Arab country.

On December 16, over 1,000 Syrian refugees returned to their homeland from different areas in Lebanon, including Nabatieh, Bekaa, Tripoli and Shabaa.

Syrian refugees depart from Lebanon as they are waiting in buses, sent by Syrian authorities, at al-Dabbousiya border crossing on December 24, 2018. (Photo by SANA)

Arabic-language Elnashra online independent newspaper reported that the return of refugees took place under the supervision of Lebanon's General Security in cooperation with the Lebanese army.

“Lebanon's General Security is keen on continuously securing a voluntary return of Syrian refugees to their towns,” Colonel Khattar Nasreddine, head of the Public Security Information Division in northern Lebanon, said.

Nasreddine said that the voluntary return of refugees to their homeland was in the interest of both the Syrian and the Lebanese nations.

More than one million Syrian refugees are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lebanon.

The Beirut government estimates that the true number of Syrians in Lebanon stands at 1.5 million.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Israeli regime and its Western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri terrorist groups wreaking havoc in the country.

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