According to Oleg Igansyuk, the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (part of the Russian defense ministry), around 7,000 people have entered Syria from Lebanon in the past 24 hours,reports TASS.
"Over the past day, as many as 6,886 people crossed Syria's border from Lebanon via the checkpoints of Al-Arida, Al-Jawasiyeh, Al-Dabousiyah, Jisr Qamar, and Jdaidet Yabous," he said.
He also said that Syria's authorities and the Russian Reconciliation Center helped ten more refugees - one man, two women, and seven children - leave the Rukban camp in the al-Tanf area, where the humanitarian situation is on the edge of catastrophe.
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