According to a report from Hezbollah media outlets, the Syrian Army has urged rebels within the final rebel-held district of Aleppo to hurry up and finish the evacuation, saying they could enter the area soon and take it by force if the rebels don’t start leaving.
Estimates on the size of the evacuation of Aleppo vary wildly, but Turkey has indicated some 37,500 people have left since late last week. The rebels are mostly staying, however, saying they want to wait until the civilians are fully evacuated before leaving themselves.
Russia and Turkey indicated the evacuation could be done within two days, while the rebels claimed 37,500 was “only about half” of the people who want to leave. Estimates were that only about 50,000 were in the district in the first place, though again there was quite a bit of variation in that figure.
Though the Syrian military is eager to finalize their capture of Aleppo’s rebel district, so long as the evacuation is going on they risk a major backlash if they enter the area. It also risks threatening the concurrent evacuation of Shi’ite civilians from Idlib Province.
They are waiting for UN “observers” to come in, so they can refuse to leave. It will be mighty hard for Syrian government to storm their hideouts, with the heroes hiding behind women and children. This is why they have fist resorted to torching trucks, firing on them, and now evacuating, telling stories of how many have left, acting gallant, while hiding behind their women’s skirts. These are the most hypocritical terrorists I ever saw.
UN or not, Syria needs to give them a deadline, and get them out. These people are monsters — what they proved over and over again. They treated civilians horribly — as the real stories of the civilian ordeal under terror rule, is coming out. And yet — our lying media is suppressing all the information from real people. And still taking all the information from terrorists only. Hopefully, those 12 special ops from Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, US have been evacuated by now. Or who knows, Al-Nusra can keep them as hostages to get what they want — to prolong the mess.
I am amazed at the collective Western stupidity at not realizing that one should not get entangled with terrorists. They are good at what they do — rootless and merciless. All we are doing now for months on end, appeasing them, making them look like heroes, and blaming everyone else.
The UN observers won’t get any closer to the rebels than the evacuation buses. Those who don’t make the bus won’t be walking out of Aleppo if they start shooting again. They have been warned.
The Syrians have every intention of ‘entering the rebel district’.