Civilians About to Leave Fua'a, Kafraya after 3-Year-Long Siege

Rasa - A convoy of buses and ambulances arrived in Fua'a and Kafraya in Idlib province to transfer civilians and patients from the two towns which have been besieged by the terrorists for three years now.

News ID: 428869

Date: 13 April 2017 - 21:09

RNA - The development came in line with an agreement between the Syrian army and the terrorist groups to transfer civilians from Fua'a and Kafraya in exchange for the militants' exit from Damascus province.

A sum of 99 buses and 20 ambulances of the Syrian Red Crescent Society entered Fua'a and Kafraya in Northern Idlib on Thursday morning to transfer the civilians from the two towns after three years.

Based on the agreement, 8,000 civilians are due to leave Fua'a and Kafraya and 3,800 militants along with their family members will be transferred from the towns of Zabadani, Madhaya, Baqin and al-Jabal al-Sharqi in the outskirts of Damascus.

In late March, the army and militants groups inked an agreement on the evacuation of all the citizens of Kafraya and Fua'a in the aftermath of a ceasefire agreement, in lieu of the evacuation of militants and their family members from al-Zabadani and Madhaya.

According to media reports implementation of the agreement would begin on April 4th after a ceasefire began on 28 of March that would be processed in two phases in order to end the simultaneous evacuation in the two regions.

According to reports, in the first phase, eight thousand civilians would leave the militant-besieged towns of Kafraya and Fua'a and the same number of militants would be evacuated from al-Zabadani and Madhaya along with their families.

The second phase that was expected to start in two months would include evacuation of 8 thousand people from Kafraya and Fua'a in return for the relocation of a similar number of militants from Yarmouk camp.

A nine-month ceasefire would be extended in the regions where the evacuation would take place from both sides that include regions South of Damascus in Babila, Beit Sahm and Yalda.

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