A health emergency and mass exodus await as the Syrian regime steps up attacks on the last rebel-held zone
Displaced Syrians gather in a field near a camp for displaced people in the village of Atme, in the rebel-held northern Idlib province on May 8, 2019.
In the past, many Syrians fled to Idlib when the Syrian regime launched aerial attacks in their areas. But this time they have nowhere else to go, surrounded by regime-held areas and bordering Turkey, more than three million civilians have no other place to go. “It’s not officially happening yet but they are gathering weapons and heavy machinery and the regime soldiers took positions around the border of the rebel held areas,” the White Helmets officer says.
“The bombing is used as a political gain, to push the terms of the agreements on the table to give more,” the White Helmets officer says. in Moscow to meet with his counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the region, particularly Idlib. Since 2015, the Syrian regime has been able to capture rebel-held areas thanks to Russian support. Turkey welcomed more than three million Syrian refugees after the war and has been holding talks with Russia to Moscow to find a political solution to the war.
The group’s capture of new towns created fears that Russia and the Assad regime will ramp up its attacks on three million people with the excuse of fighting the group., in an attempt to gain the hearts of the locals and international legitimacy.and funding agencies from countries such as Germany and France suspended development projects at the health directorates across the rebel-controlled areas due to HTS’s expansion.
before HTS’ expansion in January in Idlib documented some of the medical staff’s kidnapping by unidentified armed bands, and several arrests in HTS-held areas. But Shaikhouni says in the current atmosphere, HTS is allowing photographing or filming aid deliveries.
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