Baladi - Newspapers
An estimated 8,000 refugees from south Syria have fled a brutal regime advance to seek refuge in north Syria.
While they are now safe from the forces of Bashar al-Assad, they continue to face many difficulties, including accessing medicine and aid, while relying on friends and relatives for help.
The New Arab newspaper published a report talks about the suffering of the IDPs in Idlib province.
Residents describe Idlib, a province hosting around three million refugees, as being in a "state of exhaustion" after recently receiving more than 110,000 new displaced people from rural areas around Homs, as well as East Ghouta and south Damascus - and that was before the newest intake arrived from Daraa, the report says.
"We are suffering the experience of displacement for the second time; we suffered before after leaving Hasaka to stability in Quneitra, but now we live the suffering again after we arrived in Idlib," Said Faris told The New Arab.
Karim Azzou told The New Arab he was living in Idlib after friends insisted he leave the countryside outside Daraa. He had fled to Daraa from the city of Nawa.
Azzou points out that the situation for displaced people is dire, and all suffer equally - no matter from where they fled in Syria: "We are like those who left from Douma and north Homs."
Idlib is now the only significant territory in Syria outside the control of the Assad regime, apart from those areas controlled by Kurdish forces. However, many believe that a regime advance on the area could well be imminent, with questions raised as to where the vast numbers of displaced people in the province - many of whom have been displaced several times - could seek safety, The New Arab concludes.