Twelve days ago Fatema Qaitani, a 35-year-old mother of four, was sitting in a tent teaching her daughter how to read when her life was changed forever. Fatema’s tent, one of many that sprang up in a camp for displaced Syrians on the outskirts of Idlib, had been her family’s home for two months. The camp sheltered 4,500 fellow Syrians who fled their homes but could not flee their country, after Syria’s border with Turkey was slammed shut.
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