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Opposition faction fighters and their families began today to leave the city of Daraa in southern Syria, under an agreement that would restore the cradle of the movement of Muslims. protest that erupted in the country more than seven years ago.
The correspondent of the agency "Agence France Presse" said that "hundreds of fighters and members of their families are today boarded 15 buses carrying their luggage containing their belongings and have left "the meeting point.
"The majority of those who leave are combatants, with a few families," he said.
He said: "According to the records, 750 people will leave" from Daraa. "There were two buses or three empty buses," he said.
State television confirmed in the afternoon "the beginning of the transport process of terrorists who reject the colonization of the country of Daraa in northern Syria".
At the bus stop, a number of women and children were carrying their belongings.
"The Russian soldiers searched the men, while the girls who supported the regime searched the girls," the journalist said.
The buses that arrived in the morning were concentrated on Sjana Road connecting the factions and the regime.
This line was opened a few days before the berms were removed, according to the reporter.
After departure, "these buses were heading to the outskirts of the city", where it is planned to be inspected before its launch to the province of Idlib, according to the director of the Observatory – Human Rights Rami Abdul Rahman.
The evacuation process involved fighters and their families who rejected the reconciliation agreement reached between Russia and the factions in the province. July 6th,.
Russian negotiators excluded the possibility of leaving the fighters during the first rounds of negotiations, but they agreed to do so after difficult negotiations. The agreement also provides that the opposition must hand over its heavy weapons and the gradual entry of state institutions into its control areas.
Fighters of the opposition faction in the city, the cradle of the protest movement against the regime since March 2011, have succumbed to three weeks of violent attacks by regular forces who killed 150 people .
Meanwhile, the process of handing over heavy and medium-sized weapons to militant factions continues, in line with the ceasefire agreement.
"The armed groups of Daraa al-Balad continued Sunday to hand over their heavy weapons to the Syrian Arab Army," the official SANA news agency reported.
The agency released photos of tanks and cannons held by fighting factions.
He also announced the "release of five people kidnapped under the agreement reached in the Daraa country region".
The official media announced Saturday the beginning of this process, in accordance with the agreement.
The delivery of heavy and medium weapons paves the way for government forces to enter the city, where the flag was lifted last Thursday, sign of victory.
On another front, after the defeat of the fighting factions at Daraa, the regular forces intensely shelled the strategic governorate of Quneitra at dawn and managed to regain control of one of the cities, according to the observatory.
Fighting factions control 70%, while regular forces control 30% of this strategic area bordering the line with the occupied Golan Heights.
"Four air strikes were carried out, some 850 rockets and shells were fired at several areas of the province, and violent clashes erupted between the regime's forces and the fighters," the source said. He pointed to the deaths of 18 members of the regular forces, including 3 officers and 13 fighters of the opposition factions.
and warned of the repercussions that could result from this process, which is the beginning of the Battle of Quneitra, at a time that has not yet suffered the wounds of Daraa's attack.
"Despite the return of tens of thousands of displaced people to Daraa, there are still 160,000 people in Quneitra," the UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement
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