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The transfer of the refugees via Israel was carried out as an unusual humanitarian gesture, and they were transferred from Israel to a neighboring country,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
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By: Yona Schnitzer
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Four Hundred and twenty two Syrians affiliated with the White Helmet civil rescue organization entered
Israel from Quneitra in southern Syria Saturday night. IDF soldiers met the
refugees and transferred them to a secure site in northern Jordan.
The operation was
carried out following requests by the United States as well as several European
countries asking Israel to act swiftly to rescue members of the organization
and their families. The international community feared that the return of the
Syrian Army to the region would put them in immediate danger, as the White
Helmets are a rebel organization, opposed to the regime of Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad.
According to the
German tabloid Bild, the operation commenced at around 9 p.m. on Saturday
night, when White Helmet members and their families arrived at an agreed-upon
crossing point adjacent to the Israeli border. The IDF opened the gates and
helped load the fleeing Syrians onto buses, which then took them to Jordan
while also providing medical care and handing out food and water. By sunrise,
all 800 Syrians had been successfully evacuated.
“The transfer of the
refugees via Israel was carried out as an unusual humanitarian gesture, and
they were transferred from Israel to a neighboring country,” the IDF
Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement, adding that Israel “does not intervene
with the inner-fighting in Syria and continues to see the Syrian regime as
responsible for all actions within Syria.”
Mohammed al-Kayed, a
spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, added that the operation was
approved and carried out due to “purely humanitarian reasons,” adding that the
refugees will remain in a closed camp within Jordan, where they will wait to be
relocated to Western countries. Al-Kayed said that Britain, Germany and Canada
have pledged to resettle the refugees within three months.
IDF ‘Prepared for a
Wide Range of Scenarios’
The operation
followed an IDF announcement last Wednesday that the IDF’s Bashan division had
carried out six special operations over the past two weeks to transfer food and
supplies to makeshift refugee camps along the Syrian border. Thousands of
Syrians began amassing on the border, with no access to food, water or
electricity, following a massive Syrian military offensive in the Daraa
province that began in early July .
The IDF said it had
transferred a total of 72 tons of food, 9,000 liters of fuel, and 70 tents, as
well as clothing and medical supplies.
“The IDF will
continue to monitor the events in southern Syria, and is prepared for a wide
range of scenarios, including granting the Syrians humanitarian aid,” an IDF
statement read, adding that “the IDF will not allow the entry of Syrians into
Israeli territory and will continue to maintain the security interests of the
State of Israel.”
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