Bab al-Hawa border crossing

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Coordinates: 36 ° 13 ′ 51.6 ″  N , 36 ° 41 ′ 32.3 ″  E

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Bab al-Hawa border crossing (March 2006)

The Bab al-Hawa border crossing ( Arabic مركز باب الهوى الحدودي) on the border between Syria and Turkey is on the main road ( M45 on the Syrian and D827 on the Turkish side) from Aleppo to Antakya . It is considered an important commercial gateway. The Turkish opposite side is called Cilvegözü Sınır Kapısı.

location

The border crossing is a few kilometers north of the eponymous village of Bab al-Hawa and about three kilometers northwest of the Syrian town of Dana .

In the immediate vicinity there are several ancient settlements from the late Roman and early Byzantine times in the area of ​​the Dead Cities :

history

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Byzantine triumphal arch shortly before the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, 1988

In the civil war from 2011

In the course of the civil war in Syria , the border crossing was the scene of fighting from July 10, 2012. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported an ingestion by around 150 fighters on July 20, 2012 after intense fighting. These included foreigners who claimed to belong to al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQMI). These are armed with assault rifles, rocket launchers and mines and come from Algeria, France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Chechnya. Al-Arabija showed pictures of armed opponents of the government at the transition.

The Turkish provincial governor Celalettin Lekesiz complained about the destruction of nine Turkish trucks in fights between "independent groups" on July 20, 2012 and had the border crossing blocked from the Turkish side. The duty-free shop at the border crossing, which was part of a Rami Machluf chain , was looted.

According to the insurgents, they found more than 400 kilograms of explosives in a car on June 3, 2013 near the border crossing. The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan confirmed the statements.

On September 17, 2013, a car bomb exploded near a rebel checkpoint at the border crossing , killing at least seven civilians and injuring 20.

Opposition supporters reported that two car bombs exploded on January 20, 2014, allegedly killing at least ten people. Initially, no group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Since July 2014, the Bab al-Hawa border crossing has been controlled and administered by the rebel organization Ahrar al-Sham . In July 2017, after a series of skirmishes with the Haiechat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib, they were defeated and the remnants of the Ahrar al-Sham abandoned the border crossing. At the end of 2017, the crossing was reopened after an interruption to enable aid deliveries to Idlib. Collected tariffs are to be used for the administration of the rebel areas. In March 2020, analysts estimated that contraband goods for the Syrian regime would also be imported into Syria via Bab al-Hawa from Turkey. Bab al-Hawa was therefore the border crossing that generated by far the most income. 30% of the funds are to go to accounts of the Syrian interim government in Turkey, the rest to the Turkish government.

In July 2020, Bab al-Hawa came into the focus of the UN Security Council after Germany and Belgium introduced a resolution according to which aid should be brought to Syria via two crossings, Bab al-Salam and Bab al-Hawa. Russian UN officials rejected the proposal, however, preferring deliveries exclusively via Bab al-Hawa, which in turn was initially rejected by most of the other members of the Security Council because a single border crossing was considered insufficient to supply 2.8 million people . Nevertheless, the Russian proposal was finally adopted after two failed votes.

See also

Individual evidence

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  9. ↑ Tariq Adely, Alaa Nassar Ahmed Rahal: "The border crossings of Syria's northwest" syriadirect.org from December 21, 2017
  10. ↑ Ishtar Al Shami: "Syrian Battlefields Divide Adversaries; Lucrative Border Crossings Bring Them Together" washingtoninstitute.org of March 3, 2020
  11. ↑ Edith M. Lederer: "Russia and West in showdown over aid to Syria's rebel area" Times of Israel of July 10, 2020
  12. ↑ Jürgen Gottschlich: "2.8 million threatened by hunger" TAZ of July 11, 2020
  13. ↑ AP: "UN Approves Aid to Syria's Rebel Area Through 1 Crossing" NYT of July 11, 2020