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Aleppo Countryside Camps Stir Controversy Over Gaza Resettlement.. Local Council Clarifies
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The wave of rumors spreading about Aleppo countryside camps reflects the sensitivity of resettlement issues in the region and rising concerns about plans to redistribute Palestinian refugees in the ar
Speculations have coincided for some time regarding the transfer of Gaza residents outside the strip and their relocation to neighboring countries or even to Syria, Sudan, and others, while Syrians have been preoccupied over the past two days with images of tents erected in the countryside of Aleppo in the north of the country.
These fears come amid increasing talk about projects to resettle Palestinians outside their lands, raising widespread public concern, as a state of controversy spread on social media platforms about the establishment of those tents in a village in Aleppo countryside, with the aim of hosting displaced people from Gaza.
This rapid spread of rumors reflects the pervasive state of anxiety among Syrians about the future of their country amid successive crises. The images of those camps circulated by Syrians have raised many questions and suspicions.
These doubts are fueled by a background of previous reports about international efforts to transfer Gaza residents to other countries under the pressure of harsh humanitarian conditions. Meanwhile, the "Akhtarin Local Council" in northern Aleppo countryside took the initiative to decisively settle the matter, denying these allegations in a statement issued yesterday, Sunday.
This denial comes as an attempt to calm escalating fears in the absence of accurate official information on the subject. The council clarified that the establishment of those camps in "Baraan" village in the Akhtarin countryside is an old project that work began on months before the fall of the previous regime.
This information indicates that the project was part of previous plans and has no connection to recent developments in Gaza. The statement emphasized that the purpose of the project is "to house displaced Syrians and transfer them from the random camps they have suffered in for years due to war conditions."
These clarifications confirm the local nature of the project and its connection to the suffering of Syrians themselves rather than receiving displaced people from outside the country. Meanwhile, American sources mentioned last month (March 2025) that American and Israeli authorities showed interest in the possibility of resettling Gaza residents in Syria, according to what CBS reported at the time.
These media reports represent part of the complex scene that fuels fears about resettlement projects in the region. They also indicated that Trump tried to contact the new Syrian government regarding this matter through an unidentified intermediary.
These leaks reflect the complexity of the regional political scene and the overlap of asylum and resettlement files with geopolitical conflicts in the region. Meanwhile, it seems that the spread of rumors about the camps in Aleppo countryside comes in the context of these reports, despite local authorities denying any connection between the two projects.
