We do not stand here in clashes zone nor in the headquarters of al-Nusra Front or Islamic State. We are here in the Khan al-Asal area in a camp for the displaced.
According to the statistics of the Aleppo Governorate Council, about 200,000 people were forcibly displaced by Assad forces in cooperation with Iranian militias from their city, Aleppo.
They got distributed to Idlib and its countryside and Aleppo's western and northern countryside, but not to safe areas but to camps that are closest to the fronts.
According to the city council of Khan al-Asal, this area is classified as a red zone by organizations supporting humanitarian cases, and the organization froze work in this area because it is close to the fronts and only 2 km distant from the front line.
Ziad al-Muhammad, director of the council says the Council resources are limited and according to the current situation, the council cannot cover more than 10% of the needs of the displaced.
Hundreds of families here live under very difficult conditions. Most of them do not work and have no money to pay rent for a house with doors and windows, so all the houses we visited did not have doors or windows.
The displaced people live here exclusively on the aid they receive from charities and they did not bring anything with them from Aleppo except the clothes they put on.
This area was subjected to the most violent bombing of Russian warplanes in the previous phase before the truce, and our cameras monitored 3 raids in 6 minutes despite the truce.
Zakaria Ali Bazo, representative of displaced people in Khan al-Asal district, says that a party or a human rights organization has not set foot here for four months.
