‘after we expel you from the city, we will expel the immigrants from Kefraya and Al-Fu`ah’, he said while laughing.
Words of a HTS security force member to a muhajir
OGN Staff
After being informed of the decision to evict them from their homes by HTS, many families of muhajirin have begun leaving their homes in Idlib city.
Many of those families had been living in ghaneema homes (A ghaneema house is a home that was confiscated by rebel forces from known supporters of the previous regime of Bashar al-Assad, including members of his security force) which HTS claims as their own property, yet a number of families living in rented homes have also been forced out.
One of those ordered to leave Idlib said, “They summoned me and ordered me to vacate my house and leave Idlib within only 4 days. I said ‘God suffices me, and He is the best disposer of affairs’. So I told them, “We will move to live in Al-Fu’ah”. (A small city just. 5 kilometers from Idlib city). The security officer said that I was not allowed to do so because ‘after we expel you from the city, we will expel the immigrants from Kefraya and Al-Fu`ah’, he said while laughing.
While many of the families appealed HTS’s decision, especially the fact that they were given a deadline of only four days to vacate their homes, many have begun leaving after being threatened with imprisonment and other action by HTS.
Many of the families are poor and cannot afford to pay the high rent prices, nor the costs of moving, especially at such short notice; and even then accommodation is hard to come by considering the influx of IDPs from all over the country, now concentrated in Idlib province.
Many families are still in shock and unsure of what to do, with one recently evicted muhajir quoted as saying, ‘We never thought we would see the day when those we once fought alongside would treat us this way.’
HTS affiliated news services have tried to claim that the campaign was limited to some “troublemakers” who lived on a single street in Idlib city who were expelled. Below is an incomplete list of those who have been affected by Abu Muhammad Jolani’s campaign in the last few days:
-Abu Muath
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Zakaat, Idlib City
-Abu Ayman
Nationality: Moroccan
Former Place of Residence: Bustan Ghanoom, Idlib City
-Firas
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Bustaan Ghanoom, Idlib City
-Hamza
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Bustaan Ghanoom, Idlib City
-Abu Zakariyya
Nationality: Tunisian
-Abu Bilal
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Zaqaaq Hammaam
-Abu Abdullah
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Zaqaaq Hammaam
-Abu Muslim
Nationality: Algerian
Former Place of Residence: Near to the Clock Tower
-Abu Muhammad
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Near to the Clock Tower
-Khabaab
Nationality: Egyptian
Former Place of Residence: Near to the Clock Tower
-Abu Ibrahim
Nationality: French
-Bilal
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Near to the Clock Tower
-Abu Islam
Nationality: Moroccan
Former Place of Residence: Zaqaaq Hammaam
-Abu Umar Hindi
Nationality: Indian
Former Place of Residence: Near to the Clock Tower
-Abu Maryam
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Bustaan Ghanoom
-Abu Tawbah
Nationality: Moroccan
Former Place of Residence: Zaqaaq Hammaam
-Abu Usamah
Nationality: French
-Abu. Ayman
Nationality: Tunisian
-Abu Kaasir
Nationality: Tunisian
-Abu Yasin
Nationality: Tunisian
-Abu Ikrima
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Shaykh Thilith
Abu Hamza
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Jalaa Street
-Saajid
Nationality: Tunisian
Former Place of Residence: Shaykh Thilith
-Abu. Khayr
Nationality: Tunisian
