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Children play at a refugee center in Bialystok, Poland, on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. After enduring a decade of war in Syria, Boshra al-Moallem and her two sisters seized their chance to flee, but the journey proved terrifying and nearly deadly. Al-Moallem, originally from Homs but who displaced to Damascus by the war, is one of thousands of people who have traveled to Belarus in recent weeks and then found herself helped to cross the border with the help of Belarusian guards, something the EU considers a form of âÄœhybrid warâĝ waged against the bloc with the use of human lives. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)