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This Thursday morning, a new convoy carrying about 1,300 families of displaced people from Afrin residing in the governorate set off from the city of Qamishli in Hasakah Governorate, as part of organized returns to their areas of origin in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
This convoy comes under the supervision of the presidential team charged with following up on the implementation of the January 29 agreement, and accompanied by Syrian Civil Defense teams, amid organizational and logistical measures to ensure the safe movement of families.
The convoy includes families who lived during the years of displacement in the cities of Qamishli, Amuda and Al-Malikiyah, before beginning the return journey towards the city of Afrin and its villages and environs in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
Families began preparing to return several days ago, as they gathered yesterday at the municipal stadium in the city of Qamishli before setting off in the early hours of the morning towards the west of the city, arriving in the Afrin area.
Member of the presidential team, Dr. Mustafa Abdi, explained that the convoy represents the sixth batch of operations to return the displaced, stressing that this step comes within a series of continuous payments to gradually return the displaced people of Afrin to their areas of origin, with the return operations continuing during the coming period.
The past months have witnessed the operation of several convoys, as a convoy of 1,200 families set off on May 9, while about 800 families returned on April 14, and another convoy of about 200 families arrived on April 4.
The first return convoys were launched early last March following the agreement with the “SDF”, where about 400 families returned to their homes in the Aleppo countryside after years of displacement.
