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The Syrian revolution almost entered its 7th year and still the civilians resisting the load of the conflict marked by endless suffer, destruction and neglecting the human lives.
Almost 13.1 million civilians in need for humanitarian aid, including 3 million people in sieged areas by the Syrian regime, where they face critical threats in the protection field.
Beginning of September 2017, the United Nations reports that approximately 3 million people needs aid in areas classified as hard to reach across the country, including 420,000 people in 10 sieged areas, 90% of them in Eastern Ghouta area.
In comparison with previous months, the number of people living in hard to reach areas decreased and the sieged areas number decreased 33% (From 4.5 to 3 Million).
Forced displacement
Waar neighborhood
At least 30,000 civilians at the beginning of 2017, which led the people to sign an agreement, brokered by Russia, that states to evacuate the fighters with their families from the neighborhood, the implementation of the agreement began in 18 March 2017.
Till 20 June, 12 batches have evacuated the neighborhoods toward Jarablus and Idlib cities, the evacuees number reached 26,000 till the neighborhood became empty of residents.
Zabadany city
In 19 April, among the 4 de-escalation zones agreement, 158 fighters were evacuated from the city towards Idlib, in cooperation with the Syrian Red Crescent, leaving the city empty of civilians.
Madaya
In 14 April, the first item was implemented where the busses and Syrian red crescent ambulances entered to Madaya and Baqin towns, 65 busses were used to move 3,350 people including 400 fighters and 2,950 civilians.
Syrian regime attempted to fail the agreement by blowing a car bomb in the swap area between the Syrian opposition and Kafraya and Fua people near Rashdin crossing, which led to kill more than 50 Syrian opposition fighters including 12 from Zabadany city, one from Madaya, one from Harira, one from Wady Barada area, in addition to 110 people from Kafraya and Fua.
It was followed by evacuating 50 families from Zabadany fighters to northern Syria, and evacuating 1,000 fighters with their families from Yarmouk camp towards northern Syria, in opposite to evacuating fighters from Kafraya and Fua with their families that reaches 16,000 people towards Syrian regime held areas.
It was followed by 2 busses from Madaya and Baqin towns carrying 100 people who went towards Idlib city, simultaneously while 3 busses carrying 158 people were heading from Zabadany city and 2 busses went out later from the same city carrying 100 people.
Daraya
At least 8,000 people including 700 fighters evacuated the city that became empty after being sieged for 4 years. 300 Iraqi shia families were brought to the city, according to the Guardian.
Wady Barada
At the beginning of the year, the villages of Basima, Ain al-Khadra, Ayn al-Faija, Husayniyah and Naba'a al-Fajja in the Barada valley were shelled by the Syrian regime and Lebanese Hezbollah militia, this resulted in massive destruction of the infrastructure and the destruction of the spring of Ain al-Fijah, which is the main water resource of Damascus.
On 30 January, buses entered the Barada Valley area in the north-western Damascus countryside, which in late January 2017 witnessed the displacement of more than 2,100 people, including hundreds of fighters, to Idlib province northern Syria, to transfer the refusers of "reconciliation and settlement" from the villages of the Barada valley, and displacing them northern Syria, within the process of implementing the agreement of demographic change in the four cities (Madaya, Zabadani, Fua and Kafraya).
Damascus
Barze neighborhood: On 8 May, the first batch went to Idlib and was distributed to the city and its countryside. The number of families reached about 256 families, totaling 1022 people, including 568 fighters.
Qaboon neighborhood: On May 4, the first group of displaced people from the Al-Qaboun Damascene neighborhood were evacuated to northern Syria, in accordance with the agreement reached by the Neighborhood Negotiating Committee with the Assad regime.
The busses carrying around 1,500 people between fighters, civilians and injuries, headed towards Maaraba village then Idlib province northern Syria through Qalaat Al-Madiq road in Hama.
The agreement was implemented after 80 days of siege imposed by the Syrian regime over the neighborhood, after being separated from Barze and Tashrin neighborhoods and closing all the humanitarian corridors to the neighborhood.
Raqqa
More than 50,000 civilians fled to the camps southern and eastern Raqqa in addition to Hasakeh countryside.
Detainees
The Syrian network for human rights said that number of detainees reached 220,000, including 9,000 children under 18 and 4,500 women.
On 19 April, 1,500 male and female detainees were released from the Syrian regime prisons.
Internal Displaced people
6,100,000 IDPs beginning of January 2017.
376,571 IDPs in 351 positions and camps in Idlib, Aleppo, Raqqa, Latakia and Deir Ezzor.
