A baby cries out for her mother – but she is unable to be by her side.
The 44 – year-old and her newborn girl are being treated in one of the last functioning hospitals in the Syrian city of Idlib.
Seventy hospitals have been bombed out of action, and the location of this hospital is being kept secret for fear it will be targeted next.
Doctors have decided it is safer if the mother and baby stay in separate rooms.
The child’s mum, Warda, is one of thousands of victims of the trauma suffered by countless families in Syria .
She has had to move times since the start of the country war in
The hospital where she gave birth days ago is under constant threat of destruction .
We visited it during more than (hours in Idlib province after getting rare access.)
While we were there, Sky News witnessed thousands of people desperately attempting to find safety away from the bombing.
We also saw what was making them flee: the indiscriminate bombing of civilians.
A river of humanity was on the move, and what we saw seemed to be evidence of war crimes.
Warda has struggled to find a place in Syria where she and her 22 Children are safe.
She has given birth six times since leaving her home in southern Aleppo province soon after fighting got under way, and has moved every year since.
When Sky News spoke to her, her new daughter Tesleem was in intensive care and weighed just over a kilo.
Tesleem and countless others are born into the world early because their mothers are so traumatised by the random and targeted shelling around them.
Warda told us: “Our house was destroyed by shelling. We had to move. It was very difficult. Every year we moved and I gave birth.
“We had to beg to stay in people basements. We’ve gone from camp to camp.
“It was so hard staying warm in the tent. We had to collect plastic sacks and old clothes to burn, just to allow my children to keep warm.
“We are always so anxious. I’m worried about my children. There is no school for them. They need this. Every child should have the right to learn, to play, so they can have a future. “
The family showed us the ramshackle tent where they live in Maaret Misrin, a small village near Idlib city.
Warda, her husband Mohammed and their nine other children, most of whom are under nine, cram into the tent with two other families.
One of the other families had a three-year-old grandson called Abdullah.
The little boy told us How scared he was when bombs were dropped nearby and how he crawled under a blanket to hide whenever he heard shelling or airstrikes.
The adults in the tent smiled mournfully. This is the life their children are living now – and Abdullah has known nothing but bombs, shelling and terror in all his three years.
the adults and children in warda and Abdullah’s families are just a handful of the 934, 008 who are currently displaced from their homes in northwest Syria because of the war. That’s almost the entire population of Birmingham.
The number of children who are on the run and fleeing from an advancing army is comparable to the population of Manchester.
The scale of the humanitarian crisis is quite enormous.
When the war came to their homes, each of these families had to grab their relatives, gather their belongings and travel miles to seek a safe place – and do it all over again when the war caught up with them.
The Sky News team witnessed this tide of people on the move.
As dusk fell on Monday, outside the village of Darat Izza, two lanes of traffic headed in just one direction as far as the eye could see.
The people we saw were heading towards Afrin, in the Turkish- controlled part of northern Syria.
Hours earlier, there had been shelling and bombing in Darat Izza, where many had been living in any space they could – on spare patches of land, on roadsides, on disused railways.
Now, the Syrian regime is targeting those camps filled with displaced people.
We traveled to within minutes of the border with Turkey to al Karamah camp, where two shells had landed in a field filled with tents.
“There is nowhere safe in Syria anymore,” one man told us.
One of the trucks traveling to Afrin carried 28 people. Mattresses, plastic bottles and little metal cylinders used for cooking were piled inside as women clambered on top – their babies tucked under their arms – and more crammed into the cab.
Many of those on the move had animals with them.
The emotions of all were written on their faces. For many anger – for others an indescribable sadness.
Some showed rare signs of optimism, flashing V signs as they tried to celebrate their planned move to Afrin, hopeful they would find safety there.
Others were so crestfallen they could barely talk.
One woman we spoke to was choked up with tears, worried about what it would mean for her children.
There was fear on a mass scale. Those heading to Afrin are terrified about what’s coming from behind, and fearful of what might be ahead for them.
Many of them talked about how, if it doesn’t work out, they will try heading to Turkey once again, with a hope of traveling onwards to Europe.
But the border is shut, with nearly four million people already camping inside Turkey.
Almost all said there was nowhere left for them to run to. There’s a real sense of panic with the realization that Bashar al Assad, and the troops backed by Russia and Iran, are probably going to triumph and reclaim control of the whole of the country.
Syrians from Aleppo , Homs, Daraa and so many other cities have already fled their leader – and now, Bashar al Assad is at the gates of Idlib.
He is now bombing and shelling further forward at a rate of about six miles ( (km (a day.)
The man they denounce as a mad, evil murderer is biting at their heels.
At the moment, those displaced feel they are keeping one step ahead of Assad.
But they believe that he will massacre them – enacting revenge on them and their families – if he moves into their villages.
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