Syrian Ahmad Yassin Al-Ali and his wife, Fawza Omari, are not aware of their journey of struggle to silence the hungry bellies of their sixteen children, including eight twins, except for the hills of difficulties that grow up over time, after having been forced to flee their house nearly ten years ago and became displaced stranded in a tent on Turkish border.

Al-Ali, who is expecting two new twins from his eighth month pregnant wife, says that the little money he gets from collecting and selling scrap plastics is diminishing because of the increase in prices due to the consequences of the collapse of the Syrian currency.

"Two of my children are helping me. On the days I sell (and get the money), I buy bread, potatoes (tomatoes) and tomatoes. After the currency collapsed, prices soared that we no longer had the money to buy food and bread."

Although the area under the opposition in which Al-Ali (35 years) and his family live in Idlib are outside the control of President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian pound is still the currency used there.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that the devaluation of the lira by half since the beginning of May has pushed the prices of basic materials into making great strides until it has become a distant dream and a security that is more difficult for the four million Syrians living in the region.

Despair intensified around the family, even on Eid al-Fitr, which is supposed to be a holiday to celebrate, says wife Fawza Omri, who is also 35 years old.

She said, "I hated my life."

One of their daughters suffers from hearing difficulties and cannot speak. They have another daughter with paraplegia, but they cannot afford treatment.

Al-Ali said, "With a morning out of Morocco, I did (collect) the plastic ... The situation is difficult. Living is difficult, and I have two handicaps that we cannot afford to bring them medicine or treat them with."

He shortened the journey of displacement and an aspect of suffering in short phrases. He said, "I am displaced from the southern countryside of Aleppo, from a village whose name is Hamidiyeh. We were displaced to Orm after two years, we were displaced to a border ... Because of the rise of the dollar and the collapse of the Syrian currency, it became expensive, and what happened, what we are obligated to do is no longer appreciated. We have the right to food. , The right of bread. "

For her part, the wife said, "Food is a big problem," explaining that what they eat most days is nothing but scraps of bread.

"I am a mother of sixteen children, four of whom are twins and the fifth guy is on the road, I am in the eighth month. Every day I sit out of the morning, a day I protect them, and a day I wash (their clothes). I cook for them and clean their tent, they need cooking. Every day they have ten ties of bread. "Olbatta a thousand (pounds). Greens, we can do green, expensive, a kilo of tomatoes (a thousand), as well as the same option."

The war has killed hundreds of thousands, displaced more than 6.6 million people in Syria and forced 5.5 million people to flee to neighboring countries.

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