Growing fears of largest mass exodus from one of the biggest residential community in North Syria, while nearly 800,000 civilians fled Aleppo and Idlib countryside since December

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored growing waves of displaced civilians fleeing from Idlib city, towns and villages within the triangle of Maarrat Al-Nu’man – Idlib city – Ariha as regime forces are still approaching Ariha and Idlib city, as a part of Syrian regime and Russia’s systematic policy of forcing civilians to flee their areas by stepping up aerial and ground bombardment, so that they can capture more areas.

The problem now is that these people have no place to be sheltered in, if the regime forces advanced further into Idlib city which the largest residential community ever within a single area with 700,000 to 1,000,000 persons in.

The number of people who have been forced to flee since the beginning of the ground offensive on the 24th January, rose to 260,000 civilians, along with thousands of air and ground strikes pounding the area.

Most of the displaced people headed to the north-western countryside of Idlib near the Syrian border with Iskenderun, while some others headed to areas under control of the Turkish forces and their proxies in rural Aleppo. Some others try to infiltrate to the Turkish territory after paying large amounts of money to smugglers.

Humanitarian catastrophe is continuing to deteriorate amid International Community’s inaction towards crimes by the Syrian regime and Russians against civilians in camps and those who are searching for a new safe haven.

Turkey, the “de-escalation” guarantor, has had enough with mere publicity that polishes it as being an actor sympathetic towards the humanitarian catastrophe. Meanwhile, the Turkish border guard forces “Jandarma” continue to target and kill the Syrians who try to infiltrate into the Turkish territory.

As displacement waves are growing, the number of people who have been displaced from Idlib and Aleppo countryside since mid January rose to more than 350,000 civilians. Whole towns became empty of population almost completely, only a few people are still present there as they are too poor to bear the displacement expenses.

Accordingly, the number of people who have been displaced since early December 2019 from the southern, eastern and south-eastern countryside of Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo, rose to nearly 790,000 civilians.