Baladi News
While a patch headed towards Northern Syria, seeking a safe refuge, other dozens of families chose to move to the surrounding of the Turkish observation point in the village of Shair al-Maghar, western rural Hama, for several reasons.
These families cannot afford to rent houses away from the regions’ being shelled or even take refuge at the camps, in addition to preferring to stay close to their lands and villages.
Arnah al-Hassan, a woman displaced from the village of al-Huwayz, narrated the details of her and her family’s journey of displacement to the village of Shair al-Maghar, under the cold weather and the lacking humanitarian aid.
She said that the tent where they are living cannot help them deter severe cold, for they are short on blankets and all that can protect them from the hostility of winter, not to mention the children’s suffering due to starvation and absence of food-related materials.
The extensive bombardment of their village coerced them to abandon their it at night to the village of Shair al-Maghar, for they cannot afford the transportation fee to the camps in Northern Syria and they are unable to head towards the cities and towns in southern rural Idlib, for house rents are soring there.
The ongoing shelling forced the people to leave their houses in search for a safe shelter, commenting on which, Hussein, a man displaced from the village of al-Sharia, said that the majority of these villages’ people belong to the poor class, which cannot afford renting houses in safe regions, who are thus forced to live in the open air in worn-out tents or stay in their cars and vehicles, while dozens of families settled in the mosques, given the small area of the Shair al-Maghar’s village and the adjacent ones in the Shashabo Mountain and their inability to accommodate the displaced people.
Ahmad Nairouzi, Director of the Western Sector of the Civil Defense, said that the violent shelling campaign undertaken by Assad’s forces against al-Ghab Plain, which started on February 12, is yet ongoing and has so far caused the death of a young man from the Qalaat al-Madiq, two little girls from the village of al-Tuwayni, two young men from the village of al-Sharia, in addition to the injury of 13 other civilians, most of whom are children and women.
Source: Enab Baladi.