The United Nations will help evacuate civilians from an “abysmal” Syrian desert camp near the border with Jordan, after a mission last week determined who wanted to leave.“We are ready to facilitate” evacuations from Rukban camp, said Panos Moumtzis, UN Assistant Secretary General, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis.“We want to make sure it happens in a voluntary way,” he told AFP during an interview in Beirut on Friday, August 30, describing the situation in the settlement as “abysmal." According to Moumtzis, around 12,700 people remain in the isolated Rukban camp near the At Tanf base on the border with Iraq that is used by the US-led coalition against ISIS.Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, told the UN Security Council on Thursday that the mission “informed everyone in the camp about plans for future assisted voluntary departures and assessed the needs of those wishing to stay.”
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