There is no escape for those displaced from the hell of Idlib .. The regime is intensifying its bombardment and the world is unable to protect them

Sella Al-Wafi - Idlib

As the forces of the Assad regime and its Russian ally in Idlib continue to escalate, the suffering of civilians fleeing the bombing increases, as the forces of the regime prevent them from entering the areas they control, and the Turkish borders are closed, in light of the international inability to provide them with relief and protection.

Syrian activists said that the regime forces at the Manbij crossing, northeast of Aleppo governorate, prevented citizens from entering the regime-held areas who held ID documents issued by the Idlib governorate.

This came after the regime forces announced that they had prepared three humanitarian crossings to enter civilians fleeing the shelling towards their areas of control, according to Syrian media.

However, activists considered that the temporary crossings that the regime announced opening - in both the Al-Hadir region in the southern countryside of Aleppo and the town of Abu al-Dhuhr in the eastern Idlib countryside and the al-Habit crossing in the southern Idlib countryside - are nothing but fake crossings that no one dares to cross from them for fear of arrest.

And they added that the Al-Eis crossing in the southern countryside of Aleppo - which the regime announces every year is available for the crossing of civilians - is also closed, and only the Mansoura crossing is left in the western countryside of Aleppo, which is used only for commercial purposes.

All are terrorists
Activist Muhammad Junaid confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net that the Syrian regime prevents anyone from the people of Idlib from crossing into the areas of the regime, unlike the rest of the population who carry the identities of Aleppo, Homs and Hama, these can be allowed to cross, but after a long security study.

He stated that after his control of some areas in Idlib, the regime considered all residents of the governorate a terrorist, whether it was carrying weapons or not.

Junaid points out that a limited number of Idlib residents go to the areas controlled by the regime, for every thousand civilians who go to the camps, less than fifty people go to the areas of the system, and these require waiting hours for a long time until the security audit ends with them and ends up crossing only one or two families.

He adds that all those who tried to cross into the areas of the system to the Kurdish areas through the Manbej crossing (Al-Tayeh) are women, children and elderly men who are over the age of fifty years.

Imad Hamad tells Al-Jazeera Net that what he was exposed to from violations of the regime's checkpoints was also exposed on his way to the checkpoints controlled by the Kurdish units.

He stated that he saw the elements of the regime take an elderly woman off the bus, took her identity and humiliated her with insults and told her that all the people of Idlib are terrorists and traitors to the country, "and we do not want you to enter our areas because we are waiting for entry to Idlib to kill you and salvation from you and we will not keep any of you."

As for Abu Anas, he says to Al-Jazeera Net, "After I and my family left Idlib, we went to the Aoun crossing, but we were surprised by the decision to prevent anyone carrying the identity of Idlib governorate from crossing, so we would not have come back until we returned our stairs waiting for our destiny."

A humanitarian catastrophe
For its part, the United Nations announced on its website on Twitter that more than half a million people have been displaced by the military escalation of the regime forces and Russia in the northwest of the country since the beginning of December in one of the largest waves of displacement since the start of the conflict in Syria, which is nearing the completion of its ninth year.

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said - in a statement posted on the official website of UNICEF - that 1.2 million children are in urgent need of food, water and medicine, noting that the displaced people resort to public facilities, schools, mosques, incomplete buildings and shops.

Also, many of them live in the fields under rain and in cold weather and lack the most basic services such as water, sanitation and treatment, according to Fur.

Syrian researcher and politician Zakaria Malahfaji told Al-Jazeera Net that despite the United Nations announcing this tragedy, there is no international response to what is going on. "In the past, people were displaced to Turkish camps or camps set up by international organizations, and now they resort to nothing in the open."

For his part, journalist Ahmed Mazhar asserts that the international failure to solve the Syrian issue and letting the people meet their fate with the same is the reality that currently exists.

He considered that the Syrian issue falls under the victim of abandonment and abandonment, and within the policy of interests that no longer lean on the interests of the Syrian people.

On his part, Malahfji considered that Turkey is trying to curb the forces of the regime and prevent them from advancing further, especially after the regime forces targeted a Turkish observation post, which killed six Turkish soldiers.

For his part, Muhammad Hallaj, director of the "Response Coordinators" team in the Syrian north, said that about nine hundred thousand civilians reside in the camps on the Syrian-Turkish border, and the numbers increased during the past days to exceed more than one million and a hundred thousand.

He pointed out that since the beginning of the military escalation of the regime in northwestern Syria, about 350,000 people have been displaced in the areas of Jabal Al-Zawiya, Jericho, Saraqib and Khan al-Sabil, pointing to the increasing movement of displacement from the city of Idlib and some of the surrounding areas such as Taftanaz al-Fawah, Kafriya and Ma`rat Misrin.

As for the Syrian-Turkish borders, Hallaj pointed out that the borders are completely closed, and the Turkish border guards had previously declared that the area is a military area, and civilians are not allowed to approach them.