The Guardian: Fear of an influx of refugees breaks Europe's silence on the humanitarian catastrophe in Idlib

The British Guardian newspaper criticized the silence of European countries regarding the war in Idlib, the last stronghold of the Syrian opposition, and the humanitarian catastrophe that resulted from the continuous attack on the province launched by the Syrian-backed Syrian regime forces.

The newspaper said in its editorial that Ankara's announcement that it will not prevent Syrian refugees from traveling to Europe anymore, proving that what is required to break the western indifference to the humanitarian catastrophe in Idlib is not the suffering that men, women and children live there, but rather the fear that they may flee from the hell of Idlib to the beaches European.

She noted that the recent escalation of the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria on Thursday in the bombing of the Syrian regime forces has reinforced the fear about the risk of a comprehensive military confrontation between Turkey and Syria that Moscow will not be isolated from, and has also brought international attention to what is going on in Idlib.

Regarding the scale of the human tragedy in the province, the newspaper said that accusing the Syrian regime and its sponsor Russia of killing and maiming children through the indiscriminate shelling in Idlib is a very generous description, as not all killings are indiscriminate, as the shelling targeted 10 schools and nurseries in the province on Wednesday, which resulted According to UNICEF, 9 children were killed, and several hospitals and medical facilities were targeted.

Conditional support
The newspaper said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country is home to 3.6 million Syrian refugees, is seeking to return the displaced to the Turkish borders, who numbered one million people, to Idlib, and does not want the flow of 3 million civilians trapped in the province to his country.

And she saw that the recent Ankara declaration regarding not preventing refugees from traveling to Europe seems a desperate attempt to push the European Union and NATO to support Turkish military operations in Idlib in support of anti-regime forces, in light of the internal pressures that Erdogan is facing with the increasing number of Turkish soldiers. The dead in Syria.

She noted that the prospect of European and American support for Ankara in Syria is weak and may not exceed words, unless Erdogan shows his country’s willingness to abandon the purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system.

She said that the best scenario for solving the Idlib crisis lies in helping Turkey to the Syrian opposition to keep the remaining areas under its control, but this solution seems unlikely in light of the Russian air control of Syrian airspace.