Just like all other organized and random camps, a humanitarian tragedy lived by thousands of people who displaced from the horror of military operations to al-Ansar camp west of Idlib Province

The situation of the displaced people is worsening day after day as the humanitarian situation worsens and the war is raging in the “de-escalation” areas after the camps were flooded with displaced families, but the biggest common denominator of these camps is the suffering and the human tragedy, which are the lack of the slightest ingredients of life in terms of services especially the basic ones, in order to be a haven to receive new displaced people and house them in areas adjacent to the camps in what is known as random camps, to which the services do not reach at all, except for food baskets, if any, and where diseases spread due to the neglect.

Where thousands of displaced people west of Idlib live in the border areas near Latakia countryside, an estimated 40000 people live in camps of Hambushiyyeh, al-Masmak , Ain al-Bayda, Khirbet al-Jawz, al-Zof, and al-Ansar, where al-Ansar Camp is the largest in terms of family numbers and most of its population are displaced people from Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman, who were displaced from their villages after the regime advanced there since 2012, where the camps were random and sporadic at the time, until the camp was organized in proportion to the influx of displaced people at the end of 2014, where the displaced people began to build tents provided by the organizations through Syrians intermediaries from the opposition factions, and now it is the home to about 1200 families and it was expanded, and it has been witnessing since mid-June 2019 until now an increase in number of tents due to arrival of new displaced people from areas at the northern countryside of Hama and Sahl al-Ghab to the border areas west of Idlib.

Residents of al-Ansar camp suffer from several problems, most notably the hygiene, sanitation, and lack of drinking water, in addition to the interruption of access of water which sometimes arrive through tanks to the tents, and the displaced people complain about the lack of food aid, and the tear of tents which are more than 3 years old standing under the hot sun and extreme cold of the winter, and as winter approaches, the pressure on residents of these camps increases with the risk of repeated floods caused by the river of “Khirbet al-Jawz” adjacent to the camp, where tens of tents were flooded several times last winter amid disregard of the organizations in making dirt barricades and cleaning both parties of the river, to avoid danger of the coming floods, also the rain water with the dirt of the ground form swamps of mud that move into the tents, not to mention the dirt from firewood, heaters, and the smoke that causes diseases and deadly fires, as well as the leakage of rainwater into the tent.

While most of the camp’s residents work in simple work such as cutting trees, aromatic and medical flowers and some leaves of trees which are located near the camps, where they benefit from their price, and the health care is relatively accepted compared to other services due to the proximity of hospitals and medical points to the camp, where displaced people’s luck was associated with the military support, where these hospitals and medical points were formed by the military operation at the countryside of Latakia, while the education sector is the worst in factions’ controlled areas in general, so how would the situation be in the forgotten camps such as al-Ansar camp? This cam has a small school which is a tent to teach children how to read and write, and it doesn’t fit all children of the camp, which forces their parents to move them to a nearby camp or to a nearby school, and these teaching tents need many requirements like supporting teachers and attracting others who are competent, and expand its structure and preparing it in a better way.
The living conditions of the displaced people in the camps along the border with Turkey are deteriorating day after day, where thousands of displaced people are living in bitterness of living in the face of a near-total lack of support by the humanitarian organizations and supporter; as winter approaches bringing with it every year a lot of trouble and worries of which residents of these camps live in these camps.