Due to the royalties, violations practiced by the regime forces, Abu al-Duhur crossing witnesses the continuation of return of a small number of citizens to Idlib countryside
Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Abu al-Duhur crossing in the eastern countryside of Idlib, which the regime forces have reopened on Tuesday, the 25th of September 2018, is witnessing the continuation of light traffic movement, where intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the entry to regime forces’-controlled areas was limited to tens of people, some of whom have transactions in regime’s departments and others with property in the land that was controlled by the regime forces opposite of the factions’ controlled areas, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces continue opening Abu al-Duhur crossing in the eastern countryside of Idlib, since last Tuesday, the 25th of September 2018, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a small movement of crossing towards regime forces’-controlled areas, and the Syrian Observatory learned that people towards regime forces’-controlled areas are mostly of people who are living in areas controlled by the regime forces and came to factions’ controlled areas during the harvest seasons and could not return after the roads were closed, and reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that tens of families and residents from villages in the eastern countryside of Idlib the are under the control of the regime forces; want to return to their villages, but the royalties imposed by checkpoints of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them are preventing them from crossing.
The Syrian Observatory published on the 24th of September that the Syrian Observatory monitored the fall of several rocket shells dawn on Monday, the 24th of September 2018, on places in al-Baraghithi area north of Abu al-Duhur in the eastern countryside of Idlib, where the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them control the area there, but no information until the moment about the source of the rocket shells and the casualties they caused. The fall of shells on this area comes in conjunction with anticipation for the citizens to start entering through Abu al-Duhur crossing, of which the information about its back to service was conflicted, where it was expected to be opened today, Monday, where the Syrian Observatory published last night that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information reporting that it is expected in the incoming ours of Monday the 24th of September 2018, that the regime forces will return to open Abu Al-Duhur Military Crossing about 26 days after it was closed which caused citizens suffering, and prevented them from returning to their villages which are controlled by the regime forces, and which were subjected to processes of looting, thefts and imposing royalties by the regime forces as well as arresting a number of citizens during their return to their villages over which the regime forces imposed their control months ago, and the Syrian Observatory published in late August 2018, that the regime forces and the Russian military police have begun the second phase of preparations for the military operation in Idlib province, where after bringing military reinforcements, fortifying and shielding, the regime forces closed the crossings between their controlled areas and the factions’ controlled areas in Idlib province including Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, where the regime forces closed Abu al-Duhur military crossing days after opening it and the crossing of hundreds of citizens towards regime forces’-controlled areas in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, which was supervised by the Russian military police, clamping down on the civilians within the factions’ controlled areas who are afraid of the military operation that threatens the lives of the civilians living in Idlib province.
Idlib province and its surroundings from the countryside of both Aleppo and Hama, has 4 main crossing points between the factions’ controlled areas and regime forces’-controlled areas, namely: the crossings of Morek and Qal’aat al-Madiq which are used as civilian and commercial crossings, Abu al-Duhur crossing which is being used under the supervision of the Russian military police as an entry point to regime forces’-controlled areas without exit, and al-Eis crossing in the southern countryside of Aleppo which is used as a crossing for the passage of trucks to and from areas of control of the factions and the regime forces, while this tightening and trapping the area more by the regime forces, comes with continuous arrival of reinforcement the contact lines between the regime forces and the factions, in the section extending from the northern countryside of Latakia to the southern countryside of Aleppo, through Sahl al-Ghab and in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, where the reinforcements including equipment, weapons, armored vehicles, machinery, ammunition, and members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them and fighters of the “reconciliation” factions.