The southern Idlib countryside and the western Aleppo countryside controlled by the Syrian opposition are witnessing the return of many of the residents who were displaced earlier, at a time when returnees are facing their challenges of reconstruction and resumption of life in an unknown future.
The Response Coordinators organization stated that 109 thousand displaced people, or 10% of the total number of displaced people at the Syrian-Turkish border, have returned to their areas since the signing of the ceasefire agreement in Moscow between Russia and Turkey on 5 March.
Some of the returnees have justified their decision to fear that they will develop corona disease in crowded camps, which lack many of the elements of treatment and prevention.
Displaced people returning to their homes face difficult challenges, the most important of which is the lack of services and the great damage to facilities and homes, but this remains in their view less bad than homelessness and waiting for aid.