Kamîran: Yesterday we talked about the preparations for this caravan. Today it has finally set off.

Ronahî: Yes. The third caravan left from Washokanî camp and from the schools being used as shelters and headed toward the villages and small towns south of Serêkaniyê. The caravan includes five hundred eleven families, which means three thousand two hundred forty two people.

Ronahî: Two caravans had already gone before, and with them nearly one thousand one hundred families had returned. The second caravan alone consisted of seven hundred families.

Kamîran: So if we add them together, these caravans bring the total number of returnees to nearly one thousand six hundred families. But are these all the people, or are many still waiting?

Ronahî: Many are still waiting. According to reports, more than fourteen thousand displaced people are still waiting to return, including those who want to return to the city centre. That is why efforts are being made to organise two caravans every week. All these caravans are heading toward the countryside in the south; no date has been set for returns to the city centre.

Ronahî: Ali Hasan Al-Heso, from the village of Al-Amiriye, said: "We were displaced from our homes in two thousand nineteen and today we are returning. It was a very difficult time."

Ronahî: Protests against the education decisions of the Syrian government, which were also in the news yesterday, continued today in several places. In Dirbêsiyê, students at a school rejected the Ministry of Education and Instruction decision concerning the Kurdish language. A statement was read by student Niyaz Sino, which said that the mother tongue is an essential part of a person’s existence and identity.

Ronahî: In Kobanê the situation is somewhat different. Students gathered in front of Kobanê University and protested against the decision of the Ministry of Higher Education. The decision reduces some faculties and institutes in Kobanê and transfers them to Aleppo University.

Kamîran: So in Dirbêsiyê the issue is language, and in Kobanê it is about keeping education in the city. Both lead to the same demand.

Ronahî: Indeed. In Mexmûr, in the Kurdistan Region, hundreds of primary, middle and high school students marched in support of the people of Rojava. The students carried pictures of Abdullah Ocalan and banners. At the same time, a human rights defender said that recognising the Kurdish language in the constitution would guarantee language and cultural rights.

Kamîran: We should also mention that in today’s reports there is no response or position from the ministries regarding these protests.

Kamîran: Israeli military movements are also continuing in southern Syria.

Ronahî: According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, today Israeli forces entered the area from Tel Abu Khaytara toward the village of Al-Hanut in the Quneitra countryside and conducted searches. Soldiers fired at a civilian who was collecting firewood. It is still unclear whether the person was injured.

Ronahî: This is not an isolated incident. According to a report, in September Israeli forces entered Syrian territory more than ninety seven times and nineteen explosions occurred, mainly in Quneitra and Deraa. These entries involved house searches, temporary checkpoints and the detention of civilians.

Kamîran: So on average more than three times a day. Today’s incident also fits into that picture.

Ronahî: In the Meridiyan neighbourhood of Hasaka, a young man lost his life after, according to witnesses, someone fired at him from inside a taxi. The motive and circumstances are still unclear, and the Internal Security Forces have opened an investigation.

Ronahî: In Tirbespiyê, Hasan Kalesh, the director of a language institute and a philosophy teacher, was abducted by unknown persons from the city market on Wednesday night between ten and eleven o’clock. He is fifty years old and his fate has remained unknown for the fifth day.

Kamîran: In both incidents, neither the perpetrators nor the motives are known.

Ronahî: That is correct. Outside the region, in the Tartus countryside near the village of Bayt Awad, two young men on a motorcycle lost their lives in an armed incident and an investigation has been opened.

Kamîran: And news from Rojhilat.

Ronahî: The Revolutionary Court in Sine handed Marziye Moradavisi a suspended two-year prison sentence and a four million toman fine. She is a dismissed teacher and a former political prisoner.

Ronahî: According to reports, the decision was issued in September. The report did not specify the charges against her or the court’s reasoning.