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(29 Apr 2019) SYRIA DISPLACED RUKBAN • SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS • RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only • LENGTH: 2:15 • • • ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY • Hama province - 26 April 2019 • 1. Various of displaced people and tents • 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yousef Khalaf Shehadeh, displaced from Palmyra: • We were displaced from the city of Palmyra to the Syrian desert and from there to the Syrian side (of the border) in Rukban camp. The humanitarian situation is more difficult than you can imagine. There is no aid. A bag of bread costs 1,000 Syrian pounds, there is no water, those who are sick die on the spot. There are no doctors, nothing. We received aid (in Rukban) two times by way of the United Nations. • 3. Various of children walking around a tent • 4. Various of a displaced family inside a tent • 5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shamsa Um Mohammed, displaced from Palmyra: • We chose this place, the countryside of Salamiyeh, so that we may find work and settle and rest. By the will of God, we will find work and things will be fine. May God be with the (Syrian) army, they secured a corridor for us, God be with them. • 6. Various of displaced children on a car loaded with furniture and belongings • 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shamsa Um Mohammed, displaced from Palmyra: • Before that, we couldn't get out, it was impossible. We tried but it was not possible. People asked for 300,000-400,000 pounds to smuggle us out. Where would we get that money? We had to stay put. • 8. Girl and child next to a truck • 9. Displaced children walking in the countryside • LEADIN: • Syrian families evacuated from Rukban camp have found a temporary home in fields north of Homs. • They have been giving details of life in the crowded border camp. • STORYLINE: • For a handful of families, this is a place to rest. • Yousef Khalaf Shehadeh fled Palmyra when the Islamic State group (IS) attacked the city, and ended up in a remote displacement camp near the border with Jordan called Rukban . • The humanitarian situation is more difficult than you can imagine, he says of life in the camp. • A bag of bread costs 1,000 Syrian pounds (approx. 2 US dollars), there is no water, those who are sick die on the spot, he says. • He adds that they only received UN aid twice during their time in Rukban. • More than ten families who were recently evacuated from Rukban are staying temporarily in these tents, pitched in open fields near a village in the Hama countryside under Syrian government control. • They are among hundreds of residents of Rukban camp who have returned to government-controlled areas over the last month, after four years living there under extreme hardship. • Many have returned to the central province of Homs, south of Hama. • We chose this place, the countryside of Salamiyeh, so that we may find work and settle and rest, says Shamsa Um Mohammed. • By the will of God, we will find work and things will be fine, she adds. • But many of the returnees suffer from malnutrition after a difficult life inside Rukban camp during four years of food shortages, when it was impossible to leave. • People asked for 300,000-400,000 pounds to smuggle us out. Where would we get that money? We had to stay put, explain Um Mohammed. • Rukban camp has been a source of tension between Russia and the US, as it lies near a US military base near the border and inside a so-called deconfliction zone agreed to by Moscow and Washington. • Moscow and Damascus say the US is obstructing emptying the camp. Washington denies the claims. • The UN says those leaving the camp must have safety guarantees that they will not be harassed when they return to government-controlled areas. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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