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A desert haven for 120,000 Syrian refugees fleeing the raging conflict

A desert haven for 120,000 Syrian refugees fleeing the raging conflict
# 07 November 2013 02:55 (UTC +04:00)

 

Baku-APA. The relief and the exhaustion were palpable, APA reports quoting, news.yahoo.com.

 

Dust from the desert through which they’d travelled to seek sanctuary still clung to their clothes.

 

And they were the lucky ones – the ones who had just arrived in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.

 

Eight miles south of the Syrian border, the camp is distant enough to be safe but close enough to still hear the sounds of shelling between Bashar al-Assad’s government forces and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

 

It is a constant reminder of the reason they left and what awaits them if they return.

 

The refugees who had arrived that night were given water before receiving medical and administrative checks and joining the 120,000 others clustered in what is now the largest refugee 

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