Baladi News – Homs (Omar al-Hassan)
Russian war planes bombarded on Tuesday a refugee camp in Deir al-Zour governorate near the northeastern borders of Jordan with Syria, which killed five citizens, including two children and two women, and wounded more than twenty others.
A source inside the camp told Baladi news that the Russian air forces executed six cluster bombs airstrikes on Hadalat camp in al-Hamad desert near the Jordanian borders. The camp is inhabited by hundreds of citizens, mostly women and children, who are families of fighters in Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya, a rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army. These families fled Deir al-Zour after ISIS took control over the governorate.
Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya is considered one of the most important factions of the Free Syrian Army in fighting ISIS. The faction withdrew from Deir al-Zour after ISIS grabbed the city, but has been involved in clashes against it in Qalamun area of Damascus countryside in the first place.
Last month, the Russian war forces bombarded twice a camp for New Syria Army near al-Tanf village at the Syrian-Iraqi borders, which caused casualties among its soldiers.
It is noteworthy that there are two main camps at the conjunction of Iraqi, Syrian, and Jordanian borders, inhabited by 60,000 who were stranded since the escaped from the center and east of Syria. The Jordanian authorities prevent these refugees from entering Jordan after declaring the borders a shutdown military zone in consequence of a suicide attack by a suicide bomber that killed seven border guards while attempting to break into a Jordanian military base with his car.