UNICEF: More than 100,000 displaced people return their homes in north-eastern Syria

ARK News: More than 100,000 Syrians have returned to their homes after being displaced after the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria, UNICEF said yesterday.

In its report on 5 November 2019, UNICEF said that as of October 31, a total of 215,119 people had been registered. Of these, 108,514 people remain displaced and 106,605 have returned to their areas of origin.

According to the UNICEF report, of those still displaced, 91,721 reside in host communities in the governorates of Hasaka, Raqqa, and Deir al-Zour, while 16,793 IDPs (3,697 families) are accommodated in 79 active collective shelters (in Hasaka (78), in Raqqa (1)), and twenty-six collective shelters are now hosting previously displaced populations, mostly in Ras al-Ain. Which is now mostly empty.

More than 14 thousand Syrians also displaced to the Kurdistan region of Iraq, where they are transferred to the camps and Bardarash Gwelan in Duhok, and the United Nations expects the displacement of about 50 thousand Syrians to the Kurdistan region if the crisis continues in northeast Syria.

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