Simultaneously and in similar ways… the regime, Turkey and the opposition factions clamp down on hundreds of thousands of citizens of the displacement people of Afrin and those stayed in the area

Continuous looting…tragic humanitarian situations…imaginary fees, arrests and the clam down on more than 300 thousand displaced people and thousands others stayed in Afrin area

The tragedy of the displacement people of Afrin area is continuing, and their humanitarian situations deteriorate day after another, amid bad weather witnessed in the area, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the deterioration of the humanitarian conditions of more than 300 thousand displaced people, who have displaced from Afrin city and its villages to the northern countryside of Aleppo, where they spred in the areas where the militiamen loyal to the regime are located, including tens of thousands of families that reached the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahraa in the same countryside, and tens of people displaced from Afrin asserted to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the aid provided to them was shy and too little and did not amount to the level of the tragedy, where the aid of the Red Crescent was provided in batches, and the medical services were also provided, but they was not enough except for a group of the displaced people, while there are thousands of citizens still staying in the open as a result of the lack of the tents, after the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahraa and the villages and towns in the northern countryside of Aleppo became crowded with the people displaced from Afrin, many of whom have found it difficult to rent a house because of doubling the rents of the houses.

The continuation of the regime forces to prevent citizens displaced from Afrin, of who try to displace to Aleppo city, to reach it, increased these tragic humanitarian situations, where several reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the checkpoints of the regime forces are continuing to impose fees on the citizens desire to reach Aleppo city, where about 1000$ is imposed for each single person, while others are helped to escape in different ways through the regime’s checkpoints inside Aleppo city, in return for large sums of money, where the residents complained to the SOHR about these situations, and the ongoing prevention of the regime’s checkpoints to reach Aleppo city despite the tragic humanitarian situation in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which is crowded with thousands of people displaced from Afrin city and its villages.

Also the tragic reality in the north of Aleppo, is similar to the tragic humanitarian situations of those who stayed in Afrin area, within the areas controlled by the Turkish forces and the rebel and Islamic factions operating in Operation “Olive Branch”, where citizens confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that these forces tend to continue their thefts and looting to every thing they would find in the citizens’ houses and public institutions and facilities, and the citizens asserted that their mobile phones, cars, tractors, motorbikes and electronic sets and equipment were looted, and reliable sources said that their houses were looted of all their contents of equipment, machineries and supplies, and the citizens also asserted that the humanitarian aid was organizationally distributed in front of the media in the cameras, while behind the cameras and in the scattered and remote villages in Afrin countryside, these humanitarian aid was sold at high prices to merchants and shop owners, who also tended to sell them for the citizens at double prices of those which the foodstuff was purchased at, and the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation are continuing to interrupt electricity and water to the most of Afrin area, and sources confirmed that displacement of citizens from Afrin countryside to the city was documented, where sums of money were imposed on those entered Afrin city by the checkpoints deployed on the roads between Afrin countryside and the city, in addition to arrests against tens of citizens who stayed in the area, and they were transported to detention centers after being subjected to insults and humiliation.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published two days ago that it monitored since the 10th of March 2018, the escalation of the displacement from Afrin area, after a series of displacement from a village to another and from a town to another, reaching Afrin city in order to be gathered there, after long travels during which some displaced people stayed in caves for several days, until the pace of the Turkish shelling is decreased and to find save place or a way enables them to reach Afrin city, but others were not able to arrive, and some of them killed by Turkish strikes, raids or snipers, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the displacement of hundreds of thousands of citizens from Afrin countryside to the city, until mostly left in a mass displacement through mountains and paved and rugged roads and transported to areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo, where hundreds of thousands of citizens were distributed in areas where the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation intend to start a military operation, according to obtained information, after the factions had lost them for the SDF in the northern countryside of Aleppo in early 2016.

Photos by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights showing the displaced people abandoned by the Turkish army from their cities, towns and villages in Afrin area

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