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Hundreds of members of the White Helmets, a lifeguard organization in Syrian rebel areas, were evacuated to Jordan via Israel.
According to the Israeli military radio, which announced the evacuation, it is about a group of 800 people. includes white helmets and their families. But, on Sunday evening the Jordanian Foreign Ministry reported that only 422 had arrived on its territory according to its spokesman Mohamed al Kayed, who had initially given a number of 827 first responders. 19659003] All were threatened because of the advance of Bashar al-Assad's regime troops in southern Syria, the radio said, explaining that the operation had been conducted at the request of the United States. United States and the European Union. Jordan said, on the other hand, that Syrians, after a first stage in this country, would be transferred to Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. "Because of the risk to their lives," Jordan agreed to receive them "for purely humanitarian reasons," says Al Kayed.
The White Helmets is a specialized organization, among others, in the evacuation of people from the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Syrian Army or the Russian Air Force.
Head of White Helmets Raed Saleh confirmed that " a number of volunteers were evacuated for humanitarian reasons, since they were surrounded in a region (…) south of Syria, but now Found in Jordan ".
The members of this organization were trapped in the Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Daraa in the south of the country. Some of them were in the border zone of the Golan Heights, partially annexed by Israel since 1967.
Following its military offensive started on June 19, the Syrian army controls 90% of Quneitra, in more than 80% of the territory of the Deraa region, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
The Israeli army confirmed the evacuation of the rescuers to a "neighboring country", although he recalled that this evacuation does not change his policy of not welcome Syrian refugees on its territory.
Amman (AFP)
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