Published : 15-03-2018
Yelda’s Public Authority issued a decision to completely close the Yelda-Yarmouk camp checkpoint within 48 hours.
In its statement that reached the Action Group, the Authority stated that based on the special session, number (2), which was held on 13th of March 2018, it is forbidden to enter the wounded and the dead members of ISIS and Al-Nusra to the town, and calling them on the minarets of mosques, noting that within the next 48 hours, it will allow the residents of Yarmouk camp to enter their food supplies normally, according to the regulations applied at the checkpoint.
According to the Authority’s statement, the security office and the Mujahideen of Yelda gathering have been assigned to apply the conditions of the decision completely, stressing that it will not accept intercession and mediation from any party or person whatsoever, after the expiration of the deadline mentioned above.
The closure of the Orouba crossing, the only vent for the besieged people of Yarmouk camp who are trapped inside it, comes after a great wave of displacements from the areas controlled by ISIS to the town of Yelda in south Damascus.
This is not the first time that this checkpoint has been closed. The armed opposition factions justified its decision by expressing the dangers facing the civilians while crossing the Orouba checkpoint, and ISIS’s targeting of its members and assassinating them.
Yelda’s Public Authority issued a decision to completely close the Yelda-Yarmouk camp checkpoint within 48 hours.
In its statement that reached the Action Group, the Authority stated that based on the special session, number (2), which was held on 13th of March 2018, it is forbidden to enter the wounded and the dead members of ISIS and Al-Nusra to the town, and calling them on the minarets of mosques, noting that within the next 48 hours, it will allow the residents of Yarmouk camp to enter their food supplies normally, according to the regulations applied at the checkpoint.
According to the Authority’s statement, the security office and the Mujahideen of Yelda gathering have been assigned to apply the conditions of the decision completely, stressing that it will not accept intercession and mediation from any party or person whatsoever, after the expiration of the deadline mentioned above.
The closure of the Orouba crossing, the only vent for the besieged people of Yarmouk camp who are trapped inside it, comes after a great wave of displacements from the areas controlled by ISIS to the town of Yelda in south Damascus.
This is not the first time that this checkpoint has been closed. The armed opposition factions justified its decision by expressing the dangers facing the civilians while crossing the Orouba checkpoint, and ISIS’s targeting of its members and assassinating them.
