The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Adam Abdel Mullah, announced that about 1.2 million Syrians have returned to their areas since December 2024, following the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
This happened during a press conference held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, where Abdel Mullah participated via video link from Damascus, and provided a briefing on the latest humanitarian developments in Syria.
The UN official explained that among the returnees are 885,000 internally displaced persons and 302,000 refugees who have returned to their areas of origin in recent months.
He noted that out of approximately two million internally displaced people in northwest Syria, only 100,000 have returned, attributing this to “the lack of basic services, ongoing security risks and the lack of legal documentation.”
RETURN OF 20,000 FAMILIES
In a statement to the “Syria TV” website, Firas Qardash, the director of social welfare and labor in Idlib, revealed that the number of families who returned to their villages and towns after the liberation reached only 20,000 out of 270,000 families living in displaced persons camps in Idlib governorate.
He believes that “return from the camps to villages and towns is impossible due to the destruction, in addition to the lack of infrastructure and sources of livelihood, and the widespread presence of mines in houses and agricultural fields. In an interview with the Syria TV website, he emphasized that “the number is very small compared to the total number.”