UNHCR: 52,000 Syrian refugees have returned from Jordan since the fall of the former regime

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced today that 52,000 registered Syrian refugees in Jordan have returned to Syria since the fall of the former regime on December 8th.

According to a UNHCR report reviewed by Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV, the average number of daily returnees to Syria has reached 372 refugees, compared to an average of 180 per day the previous week.
The UNHCR also confirmed that around 107,000 Syrian refugees have returned from Jordan since the reopening of the Jaber (Nassib) border crossing in 2018.
The UNHCR report also added that “the demographic composition of returnees has remained largely unchanged compared to previous weeks, with women and girls making up approximately 45% of all returning refugees, children around 42%, and men aged 18–40 about 23% of the total returnees.”

The UNHCR noted that a total of 372,550 Syrian refugees have returned to their country from neighboring states since the fall of the former regime up to the beginning of April. These returnees crossed the borders from Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and other countries.
It is worth noting that Jordan has been hosting approximately 1.3 million Syrians since the beginning of 2011, including around 600,000 refugees registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

On March the 3rd, Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya announced that more than 44,000 Syrians had voluntarily returned to their country since the fall of the former regime.

Rawaa Ghanam