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One million Syrian children in Idlib at risk if assault mounted - UNICEF

By Stephanie Nebehay

 

FILE PHOTO:A general view taken with a drone shows part of the rebel-held Idlib city, Syria June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah/File Photo

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - More than a million Syrian children are at risk in the event of a government military assault on the rebel-held province of Idlib, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.

 

Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF director of emergency programmes, said that the agency has drawn up contingency plans including providing clean water and nutritional supplies to some of the estimated 450,000 to 700,000 people who could flee an attack.

 

An estimated 2.9 million people live in the northern region of Idlib, half of them already displaced from other areas in Syria as opposition supporters fled there from other areas captured by government forces.

 

"It's more than one million kids... When you hear the kind of military rhetoric about an offensive and all that, I think it's important to remember that it's not just against a group of armed men," Fontaine told Reuters in Geneva.

 

"It's actually a very large proportion of women and children who have no stake in it, and elderly men and others," he said, speaking after holding talks in Damascus this week with deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad.

 

Idlib and surrounding areas are the last major enclave held by rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. A source has told Reuters that Assad is preparing a phased offensive to regain the province.

 

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday the Syrian government had every right to chase "terrorists" out of Idlib and that talks on establishing humanitarian corridors there were ongoing. Russia is Syria's main ally, along with Iran.

 

U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has called on Russia, Iran and Turkey to try to delay the battle and called for humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians.

 

Many families in Idlib have been uprooted multiple times, evacuated as front lines shift, Fontaine said.

 

"There's some children who have been displaced seven times already, going from one place to the other. It means that their coping mechanisms, their resilience is very drained at the moment so they are particularly vulnerable. That's a major concern obviously."

 

If there is an assault, civilians would be expected to flee towards Aleppo or Hama and Homs, rather than to Turkey, he said.

 

"We are anticipating, there are scenarios of possible displacement of between 450,000 and 700,000 people on the move," Fontaine said. They include 400,000 possibly in the first week.

 

"We are not part of a discussion on humanitarian corridors at this stage. But I think what is important for us is that people who want to be able to move can move as long as they want to do it and they do it in safety and security," Fontaine said.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-09-01

[Pedrogaz]

Wikipedia gives the population of Idlib as 165,000 in total in 2010 (census data) before the jihadi invasion in 2011....nowhere near 1 million children even if the whole population were kids. The whole of Idlib governate was only 1.464 million. I simply don't buy the story of people fleeing to the jihadis. Most of the internally displaced people went to the government controlled West, and none went to jihadi controlled areas.  Children made up 35% of the population at the last census, but tend to make up a higher proportion of the refugees seeking to get away from the fighting. 

 

We were told there were millions of people in Eastern Aleppo, which turned out to be totally false. The city was totally cleared and there were less than 100,000 people, with 90% not rebel jihadis who were kept there against their will. Why do we keep getting these reports? I am guessing that some of the refugees came from Idlib when the jihadis took over.  When the city was liberated where dod the vast majority of the population go? They went to government controlled areas...the jihadi went to Idlib with their families. 

 

And I guess we are looking forward to reports of chemical weapons (false flags in my opinion as Assad has nothing to gain, he is already winning) and then mass hysteria in Western capitals.

 

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On 9/1/2018 at 5:30 PM, Pedrogaz said:

Wikipedia gives the population of Idlib as 165,000 in total in 2010 (census data) before the jihadi invasion in 2011....nowhere near 1 million children even if the whole population were kids. The whole of Idlib governate was only 1.464 million. I simply don't buy the story of people fleeing to the jihadis. Most of the internally displaced people went to the government controlled West, and none went to jihadi controlled areas.  Children made up 35% of the population at the last census, but tend to make up a higher proportion of the refugees seeking to get away from the fighting. 

 

We were told there were millions of people in Eastern Aleppo, which turned out to be totally false. The city was totally cleared and there were less than 100,000 people, with 90% not rebel jihadis who were kept there against their will. Why do we keep getting these reports? I am guessing that some of the refugees came from Idlib when the jihadis took over.  When the city was liberated where dod the vast majority of the population go? They went to government controlled areas...the jihadi went to Idlib with their families. 

 

And I guess we are looking forward to reports of chemical weapons (false flags in my opinion as Assad has nothing to gain, he is already winning) and then mass hysteria in Western capitals.

 

Idlib Province has been used by the Syrian government in preparation for a killing ground to relocate various opposition fighter groups, civilians from opposition occupied areas and so on for quite a while. It has long been anticipated Syrian government forces will attack Idlib Province with an anticipated bloodbath and mass refugee dislocation.

 

In summary check your facts before posting as you have made incorrect statements. A few hints, Lebanon hosts approx one million Syrian refugees, Turkey approx three million, plus...

 

https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/most-vulnerable-affected-syrians-internally-displaced-persons-idps-camps

Edited September 2, 2018 by simple1

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Waiting for TV's finest, to show up and claim, that these children should just stay and fight for their country!
Like they - TV's finest and their respective fathers and grandfathers have always done...or would do, if they were ever facing war, starvation and destruction...
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