Vanessa Beeley in Idlib
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres commemorated the extension of a “humanitarian” border crossing at Bab Al Hawa, on July 10th, as a “lifeline for countless people”– numerous Syrians would rather describe it as a “lifeline” for Al Qaeda.
On the 15th July I visited Jurin, a village to the north of the Hama governorate and just 5km from the Syrian allied military frontlines with the Al Qaeda-dominated armed groups managing Idlib, north-west Syria.
We reached around 9 am to the boom of mortar and rocket fire from the Jabal az Zawiya mountain that is under control of Turkish-backed armed groups. Jurin remains in the Al Ghab plains at the foot of two mountain ranges and is an easy target for the raised terrorist positions, inhabiting Jabal az Zawiya.
On June 20th, a three-year-old kid, Massa Akram Saleh, was murdered by the armed groups who targeted her household home, hurting her daddy and sibling, five-year-old Akram Saleh, whose body was lacerated by shrapnel wounds. Massa was rushed to Al Sqeilbiyyeh health center, a journey of one hour, however later passed away. Her bro and father are still receiving treatment. Massa’s grandpa informed me:
If this had actually been a child of the militants, the UN would have made a huge case of it. Hundreds of kids have actually passed away in our area however it is as if nobody passed away at all”
The grandfather explains an everyday deluge of attacks from the Turkey-assisted armed groups, targeting the triangle of Jurin, Al Safafeh and Zkereh. He begs the Syrian forces to push the militants a minimum of as far as the M4 highway and far from the area, to bring an end to the nonstop aggressiveness.
This is a hostility that apparently is not worth discussing in UN reports on the cross border “humanitarian” activity. He thanks the Syrian Arab Army for doing whatever they can to keep the extremist groups at bay.
< img src ="https://off-guardian.org/wp-content/medialibrary/Mother-baby-and-grandmother-1-650x975.jpg?x85805"alt=" "width=" 650 "height="975"/ > A mom with her child and the grandmother of three-year-old martyr, Massa Saleh in Jurin. Image: Vanessa
Beeley While the grandfather is speaking to me, a mom bring a baby, hugging her children, is cowering and weeping in the background as the shells continue to fall. Next to her is Massa’s granny who can stagnate without her walking frame.
One shell had hit the outer wall of your house just before we arrived, another had actually blown a 2 meter crater in the garden behind the extended household house. A 3rd exploded five meters from where I was standing while I interviewed a second member of the family, Ghaith Ghazi Saleh. He informed me: We
are being targeted daily with shells from Az Zawiya mountain. Throughout the last 2 or 3 years we have actually seen Turkish convoys entering into the location not more than 2km from our farmlands, they avoid us from cultivating our farmlands [.] the weapons that bombards us is Turkish. The coordinates are provided by the terrorists”
On left the rocket that targeted the Saleh home on 15/7/2021 and on the right the debris from the strike in the corridor. Picture: Vanessa Beeley Saleh informed me that the armed groups target schools, suburbs and civilian infrastructure. They even targeted a funeral procession and an acknowledgements gathering 2 years back, according to Saleh. He describes the Turkish and armed group damage of the land. Saleh talks of the increase of militant aggression to target Russian/Syrian humanitarian corridors that are an effort to allow Syrian civilians to safely get away the armed occupation of north-west Syria.
This is something that I had previously seen in Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta as civilians tried to get away to the security of Syrian Arab Army humanitarian collection points, they were cruelly shelled or sniped by the inhabiting extremist groups, furious that their human guards were evading them.
US-manufactured weapons in the hands of Al Qaeda affiliates
It is obvious that the CIA Timber Sycamore operation supplied US-manufactured weapons to “moderate” extremist groups that inexplicably ended up in the hands of terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Weapons that consisted of the TOW anti-tank rockets that are freely used by the Idlib armed groups against civilian targets which is an undeniable war criminal offense according to investigative reporter, Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, who has specialised in discovering the unlawful arms sell Syria.
In Gaytandzhieva’s most current examination, she exposes that the Pentagon is “purchasing $ 2.8 billion worth of weapons for dispute zones worldwide. Most of the weapons are predestined for Syria.” Videos and images launched by the armed groups plainly show that Hayat Tahrir As Sham (HTS) an Al Qaeda spin-off have actually been supplied with United States TOW missiles in Idlib.
Unexploded #US TOW rocket in #Jurin #Idlib borders today. “Humanitarian help” allows the supply of these weapons to #AlQaeda to kill #Syrian civilians. When the #UN sheds crocodile tears for “humanitarian” crisis, it is enabling United States routine sanctioned terrorism. @dgaytandzhieva pic.twitter.com/5Oliw8g7oj
— vanessa beeley (@VanessaBeeley) July 15, 2021
During my visit to Jurin, I was revealed a number of weapons that had actually been used against civilian facilities and houses. They included a 155mm Turkish Army weapons shell and an unexploded US-origin TOW rocket. According to residents, Turkey is supplying the armed groups with incendiary rockets which are being used to torch farmland and farming crops, once again a familiar technique to starve civilians and force them to leave their land. I was shown fields that were blackened and burned as evidence of this barbaric practice.
The sweltered earth policy in Jurin, Turkey and terrorist groups have actually deliberately burned farming crops and farmland. Photo: Vanessa Beeley
It must raise the concern– how do these weapons get in Idlib? Press TV journalist, Serena Shim, exposed in 2013 that World Food Program (WFP) “humanitarian” aid trucks were being used to smuggle ISIS terrorists and weapons into Syria via the Turkish border crossings.
Quickly after Shim reported on this dubious activity, she passed away in a suspicious automobile accident after being threatened by Turkish authorities. 2020 Nobel Peace Laureate WFP still has an existence and participation in Bab Al Hawa.
In 2021 the official border crossings have actually been decreased down to one, Bab Al Hawa. A Russian UN representative declaration informs us that:
The UN still has no existence in Idlib de-escalation zone which is managed by international terrorists and fighters. It’s not a secret that the terrorist groups manage particular locations of the de-escalation zone and utilize the UN humanitarian aid as a tool to apply pressure on [the] civil population and honestly make benefit from such deliveries.”
Turkish mobster Sedat Peker, previous ally to President #Erdogan, revealed he shipped arms, military supplies, drones, lorries to al-Nusra front in #Syria at the request of #Sadat, Turkish professional run by Erdogan’s previous chief military advisor Adnan Tanriverdi. pic.twitter.com/AdqUxSyVVO
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) May 30, 2021
In May, Sedat Peker, a gangster and former aide of Turkish President Recep Erdogan exposed the trafficking of weapons and lorries from Turkey to Al Qaeda by a contractor called SADAT that was run by Erdogan’s former military consultant.
Who controls Bab Al Hawa?
According to an Al Display short article in May 2020, HTS seize a minimum of 10% of the ‘humanitarian” aid getting in Bab Al Hawa. HTS benefit from illicit trade of UN-supplied devices and help and have a monopoly over the processing of oil stolen by the US Coalition and proxies in occupied North-East Syria by means of their rewarding WATAD operation.
The HTS warlords make an approximated $130 million monthly from this criminal merchanting of Syrian resources and UN “help” while imposing heavy taxes and “customizeds costs” on civilians to supplement their decreasing foreign help.
Syrian expert, Ibrahim Mohammad, highlighted a Might 2020 report in Amjad Media, a known Nusra Front (Al Qaeda) media outlet that revealed the establishment of a military “combined operations room” in Bab Al Hawa that included Turkish military officers and HTS fighters. To put it simply, an Al Qaeda main command supported by NATO member state, Turkey.
Other recent posts highlighting the real purpose of the United States Coalition determination to keep Bab Al Hawa can be discovered here and here.
Turkey is embedded in Idlib to support Al Qaeda and target Syrian civilians
Map showing the proximity of the Turkish military base in Quqfin to Jurin . Nine months ago a Turkish convoy gotten in Quqfin to the east of Jurin and developed a military observation base. According to the Syrian military personnel I spoke with in Jurin, this Turkish base is supplying security and collaborates for HTS allowing them to target not military setups however civilian facilities, schools, farmland and houses. Turkey is allowing war criminal offenses and committing them, according to Syrian homeowners in Jurin.
The Turkish military base in Quqfin providing security for HTS/Al Qaeda. Image: Syrian Media in Jurin
Zeyzoun power plant, Turkish-backed industrial theft of Syrian facilities
In May 2020 the previous Syrian Ambassador to the UN, Dr Bashar Al Jaafari, detailed the Turkish sponsored theft of the biggest power station in north-west Syria, Zeyzoun power plant. The plant provided electrical power to the Al Ghab area where Jurin lies, Hama, Latakia, Tartous (on the coast) and to Idlib.
The plant was damaged by the armed groups under Turkish control prior to plundering the remains and transferring them to Turkey by means of the Bab Al Hawa “humanitarian” crossing. This left the Al Ghab area with prolonged electricity blackouts which are worsened by the US direct and proxy occupation of Syrian oil resources in the North East. Destruction of necessary civilian infrastructure is, once again, a war criminal offense.
Various groups have actually inhabited Zeyzoun because 2015 but the dominant warlord is still HTS or Al Qaeda. However, according to a field source at the time of the dismantlement and destruction, it was members of the salafist Turkestan Islamic Celebration (SUGGESTION) that brought engineering equipment and machinery to Zeyzoun to dismember the plant for scrap and income.
The same group had been accused of theft of electrical transformers and agricultural crops to trade and provide income as their financial backing had actually mostly dried up. The power plant consisted of 3 gas generators each with a capacity of 128 megawatts, powered by gas and fuel. The following is a video of the final demolition of the power plant by the POINTER:
Combined with the United States Union prohibited occupation of fuel resources, the damages sustained by the electrical energy and energy sectors in Syria and sanctions have actually devastatingly influenced on the ability of the Syrian state to supply electricity and power to civilians. This is an intentional policy by the US/UK alliance to collectively punish the Syrian individuals and to persuade them into opposition to the Syrian government and Presidency. The destruction of Zayzoun alone will require an estimated $ 450 million to restore.
The NATO-member-state extremist proxies have actually deliberately ruined and robbed Syrian facilities in every region they have occupied, this is not coincidence. In October 2015, the United States Union directly bombed the Aleppo power station plunging the region into darkness.
This sadistic method had actually been used previously in Iraq in 1991and is continuous today with the ISIS destruction of electrical power grids and stations– actions by a terrorist group that the United States has empowered, geared up and trained despite it being the incorrect pretext for the US/UK/EU military footprint in the Middle East. It is a major part of the psychological war being waged versus the Syrian individuals to bring them to heel and to force “routine modification”.
Why did Russia sanction the 6-month extension for the Bab Al Hawa crossing?
Russia and Syria have traditionally opposed the UN “help’ runs via Turkey for factors that become obvious when considering the benefits for Al Qaeda. Lots of were surprised that Russia in the end approved the 6 month extension. However, there is an assured “substantive” UNSG report into the Cross Border Mechanism openness which will be of issue to the United States Union and Turkey as Russia will most likely be collecting proof to prove that much of the help is destined for Al Qaeda and to sustain the war against the Syrian federal government.
I think Russia took this decision to prevent US allegations of belligerence post the Biden, Putin top in Geneva while wanting to ensure that terrorist sponsorship by NATO member states is fully exposed and that those involved should be held liable for the resulting war criminal offenses.
Numerous Syrians, nevertheless, consisting of those suffering everyday attacks in Jurin and the other frontline towns will deem this decision a political one which will have dire repercussions for their communities. This is another example of how this externally fomented and sustained war has actually affected so horrifically upon the Syrian individuals, leaving no one unblemished by disaster and loss.
Bab Al Hawa is not a lifeline for the Syrian civilians of Jurin
One thing is clear from my recent see to the Idlib fight frontlines– the Bab Al Hawa border crossing is not the “humanitarian” lifeline as described by US, UK representatives and lined up authorities at the UN. For these civilians, it represents the perpetual hazard of death or injury, the destruction of their income and a life of deprivation, bloodshed and fear.
Western media is still enhancing the declared “war criminal offenses” of Sryian and Russian forces battling to free Syrian area from the clutches of terrorist groups that would massacre the residents of Jurin in an instant if they could break through Syrian and Russian defences.
Two days after my visit, during the night of the 17th July, eleven civilians were hurt by HTS shelling, including one kid. This is the truth of this war, never checked out by the NATO-aligned media outlets and “humanitarian” companies who seek just to demonise the Syrian federal government and to “disappear” these inconvenient Syrians who expose the moral vacuum of their Syria stories.