MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. More than 2,600 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 2,614 people crossed Syria’s border from Lebanon via the checkpoints of Al-Arida, Al-Jawasiyeh, Al-Dabousiyah, Jisr Qamar, and Jdaidet Yabous," he said.

Apart from that, Syria’s authorities and the Russian Reconciliation Center helped twelve more refugees - one man, four women, and seven children - leave the Rukban camp in the al-Tanf area, where the humanitarian situation is on the edge of catastrophe, Ignasyuk added.