Humanitarian aid convoys | Nearly 100 aid trucks enter Idlib province

SOHR activists have reported that a humanitarian aid convoy arrived this morning at Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, consisting of nearly 90 UN trucks and seven other trucks provided by Turkish relief organizations, containing flour, drinking water and clothes, in support of poor families in Idlib and countryside.

The displaced people comprised the vast majority of the population of Idlib province and related countryside. The population is estimated at four million, most of whom live in border camps north of Idlib and makeshift camps scattered in most areas.

According to Syrian Observatory statistics, the number of displaced people who have returned to their cities, towns and villages, has reached 225,000 people, in 71 days since the ceasefire came into effect on March 5.

Russian and regime military operations had forced civilians to flee from their homes and areas. Some of displaced people who have returned are shelterless and have slept in the open near the border with Iskenderun region and another part in primitive camps in northern Idlib and western Aleppo, including those who were in the areas controlled by Turkish forces and proxy factions, north and north-west of Aleppo.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of displaced people are still in the region, living in catastrophic humanitarian conditions, and many of them have no place to return after Syrian regime forces recaptured some 300 cities, towns and villages in the “Putin-Erdogan” area during recent military operations.