IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – At the beginning of this week, Hayat Tahrir Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) warned dozens of displaced families from the northern countryside of Hama and southern Idlib residing in an informal camp in the northern countryside of Idlib of the necessity to evacuate the camp.
Local sources told North Press that members of the security forces of the HTS told the camp’s residents to evacuate the land on which the camp is located near the town of Aqrabat.
HTS gave the 70 families residing in the camp a period of ten days to evacuate; otherwise it will evacuate them by force.
The source pointed out that most of camp’s residents are poor and can’t afford their daily needs or buy a place to put their tents.
About two months ago, the authority’s Qah police station informed the camp residents of the necessity to evacuate their tents under the pretext of establishing a school and a mosque, which the residents rejected.
The total number of camps is 1,293 in northwestern Syria, in which about one million and 44 thousand displaced people reside, and they include 382 random camps and 185,557 displaced persons, according to the Syria Response Coordinators Team.