Speaking to journalists, some of the refugees said the lack of humanitarian aid drove them to make the journey west. Students from a Damascus university are helping to organize the provision of food and shelter for the refugees.
"We thought we would be saved there [at the Rukban camp] but as a result nearly died of hunger. It turned out that there was nothing there; nothing at all," Muttrah Ramadan Houdour, one of the refugees, said. "Even the food and medicine we did have were brought to us by friends from Damascus, and we paid for it. We gave everything we had," she added.
Others confirmed that the Rukban camp has problems with the supply of food and water.
The Rukban refugee camp is located in the Al-Tanf district in Homs province and surrounded by opposition militants. Tens of thousands of civilians fled to the area in 2014, hoping to cross into neighboring Jordan, when Daesh (ISIS)* began its assault into eastern Syria. Jordanian authorities did not let them into the Kingdom, resulting in the creation of the Rukban camp.
Comment: Apparently, the US-led coalition isn't as concerned with protecting civilians caught in the cross-fires of war as it with protecting its terrorists: