00:00Slowly, Fawzia enters a tent she barely knows, in this camp north of Idlib.
00:06She's back in Syria after being forced to uproot her life a second time.
00:11Fawzia fled the conflict in Lebanon to come here, an area governed by the Syrian opposition.
00:16She says she lost her identification papers on the journey, a trip that cost her hundreds
00:21of dollars paid to smugglers.
00:28We fled Syria because of the bombing, and then the Israeli bombing came to us, so we
00:34returned and fled here.
00:36We prefer to sit here in a tent for fear of sitting there in Lebanon.
00:41They bombed indiscriminately.
00:43I stayed in Lebanon for 13 years and when the Israeli bombing came, we left with the
00:48rest of the displaced from Lebanon.
00:54The smuggler came and took us through rough roads and wilderness on a journey that lasted
00:59about two weeks.
01:03The UN says more than 3,000 people have fled to north-western Syria since Israel increased
01:09its attacks in Lebanon last month.
01:13Others are still waiting to make the voyage.
01:17The journey is long and difficult, with Syria's various government-aligned and rebel forces
01:23all charging those fleeing to cross the areas under their control.
01:31Fawzia is trying to adapt in her new home, with the help of some necessities provided
01:36by relatives living in the camp for years already.
01:40Half of my family is here, and the other half is there in Lebanon.
01:47They're moving from place to place.
01:50For 14 years we have been living in agony, carrying our belongings and leaving in search
01:56of safety.
01:59We have nothing.
02:02We left our home in Syria and fled to Lebanon, and now we have left our homes in Lebanon
02:07and fled again.
02:09With a precious store of medications, Fawzia is trying to make the best of her difficult
02:13circumstances.
02:14After the repeated misery of flight and displacement, she fears she may not have much time left
02:19to rebuild what war and crises have stolen from her.
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