More than 5,900 Lebanese have returned home from central Syria

More than 5,900 Lebanese have returned home from central Syria after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect.

Xinhua News Agency reported that the Syrian media "Sham FM" on Thursday (November 28) quoted officials in the Damascus rural province as saying that since the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah took effect in the early morning of the 27th to the afternoon of the 28th, more than 5,900 Lebanese in Syria have returned home from the central Syrian Jadida Yabs port.

Jadida Yaboos is the main official border crossing between Syria and Lebanon, and one of the closest land crossings to the Syrian capital Damascus.

According to the Syrian State News Agency reported on the 27th, Syria began to repair the international highway connecting Lebanon near the Jadida Yabs port on the same day. The road was previously damaged by an Israeli air strike.

According to the latest UN statistics, more than half a million people have taken refuge in Syria from Lebanon since September.