HIRJILLA /Syria/, August 8. /TASS/. Syria’s authorities are preparing a camp in the community of Hirjilla in the Damascus suburb for displaced residents from the Idlib Governorate, which is still controlled by the militants, the camp’s head, Abdurrahman Habib, told reporters.
"The camp is being repaired to receive refugees from Idlib. The camp can host 5,000 people, but it had to receive up to 20,000 people, so it needs renovation," Habib said.
He added that the camp is currently empty. "It was established in 2014 to support refugees from neighboring regions. We received here people from Deir ez-Zor, Daraa and other governorates. In 2015, refugees from Eastern Ghouta lived there, but now they returned home, because the province had been liberated from terrorists," the head noted.