Thu 02 January 2020:
In severe winter weather conditions, the Syrian families who have been forced to displace due to the attacks carried out by the Assad regime and Russia, try to live under harsh winter conditions in Idlib.
Refugees have difficulty in finding a living place due to the lack of campsites, infrastructure and the excessive amount of refugees in the camps, although the Turkish Red Crescent is supplying food and blankets to the displaced.
On Thursday, thousands of civilians who left their homes due to regime attacks and migrated toward northern areas near the Turkish border had health checks by Turkish officials.
In the Harbenuş Camp, health staff provided by Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH) conducted health checks by visiting families in their tents.
Selim Tosun, İHH’s media officer for Syria Operations, said that they conducted health checks for providing health assistance to civilians who need it because of long migration trips.
Tosun stated that they will continue their efforts of health assistance for displaced civilians.
In the latest round of violence in Syria’s nearly nine-year-old war, regime forces have upped their deadly bombardment of the northwestern opposition bastion of Idlib in recent weeks.
Rescue services and witnesses say the bombing campaign that has killed several thousand civilians has left many towns in ruins and knocked out dozens of medical centers.
The mass movement of people has seen public buildings such as mosques, garages, wedding halls and schools turned into shelters, U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said.
Regime ally Russia announced a cease-fire for Idlib in late August after months of deadly Russian and regime bombardment that killed around 1,000 civilians.
But sporadic clashes and bombardment persisted throughout the autumn before a spike in violence in the past month, the Observatory has said.
The attack in Idlib province, the last opposition stronghold Syria, was part of an ongoing offensive in which Syrian troops have captured more than 40 villages and hamlets over the past two weeks.
Idlib is dominated by opposition groups and is also home to 3 million civilians. The United Nations has warned of the growing risk of a humanitarian catastrophe in the region, which lies along the Turkish border.
The Russian-led campaign that started in April 2019 had already forced at least a million people to leave for relatively safer areas closer to the border with Turkey, which Russian jets rarely hit.
Syria’s civil war has killed more than 370,000 people since it started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.
In total 11,215 people including more than 1,000 children were killed during the war last year, although it was the least deadly year on record since the beginning of the conflict.
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