MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. Nearly 4,000 people entered the Syrian territory from Lebanon in the past 24 hours, Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry), said.
"Over the past day, as many as 3,992 people crossed Syria’s border from Lebanon via the checkpoints of Al-Arida, Al-Jawasiyeh, Al-Dabousiyah, Jisr Qamar, and Jdaidet Yabous," he said.
He also said that the Russian reconciliation center conducted two humanitarian operations in the Damascus governorate and distributed 5.9 tons of food among its residents.
According to Ignasyuk, two shelling attacks by militants of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (outlawed in Russia) were reported in the Idlib de-escalation zone during the day. Two Syrian soldiers were wounded as a result of sniper fire.
He also said that the US-led coalition’s aircraft violated Syria’s airspace in the al-Tanf area 18 times in the past 24 hours. Apart from that, two violations of the deconfliction protocols of December 9, 2019 linked with the flights by the US-led coalition unmanned aerial vehicles were reported, he added.