Ali al-Kubaisi-Toronto

It was difficult and painful for the white helmeted Mason al-Masri to leave her city of Daraa and her family to go to the West in search of a secure and stable life, and perhaps a glimmer of hope to return home after the war ended in Syria.

Mayson's dream of finding a safe haven with her husband Maan and her colleague Jihad Mahamid, the White Helmets representative in Daraa, is investigating the arrival of Canada, along with 117 other members of the organization and their families.

A month has passed since Mason and her traveling husband landed in Ontario, Canada, after receiving them at a refugee center and then moving to modest accommodation.

Mason told Al-Jazeera Net that she finally felt safe for a moment and was presented by Canada's Toronto airport despite the fact that she is still under a strong shock because of what she witnessed during her volunteer work in helping the injured people of her city over five years and the terrible and brutal war that targeted civilians Isolation by the Syrian regime and Russian aviation.

Maysoun: Our number has risen to about 400 volunteers in several Syrian sites (Al Jazeera Net)

Feminine component
Maysoun al-Masri was one of the first women to join the White Helmets and only five in Daraa.

However, the number of female activists reached about 400 volunteers working in women's centers in several Syrian cities, she said, adding that most of them were trained to assist the injured in Turkey and other local courses by Syrian doctors and nurses.

Mason added that the difficulties and risks faced did not deter them from their work after targeting their centers and causing human losses. They were chased by elements of the Syrian regime because of their aid to the wounded in areas targeted by the regime and documented by the indiscriminate shelling of civilian houses.

Mason sighs before adding that she will not forget the painful incident she faced in her life, without anesthesia for a woman with burns and seeing her wounded children arrive at the medical center.

Defend independence
Despite her mental fatigue, Misson strongly denies accusations by the Syrian regime of the White Helmets to work alongside extremist elements in Syria.

And stresses that the aim of their work is purely humanitarian and does not differentiate between those injured by the military bombardment, although they are even members of the regime, many of whom were assisted and their bodies buried in the right way. Unfortunately, Mason continues, the regime seeks any pretext to distort the work of the White Helmets, As well as continued threats by extremists.

For his part, the founder of the White Helmets in the southern region Jihad Mahamid that he played a major role in coordinating the evacuation of volunteers from the White Helmets.

Jihad al-Jazeera Net that the evacuation of elements and equipment of civil defense began after the control of the regime on the southern regions and launched military strikes supported by Russian aviation.

Mahamid remembers that all the elements were informed of the withdrawal to the neighboring cities. We had not had to be surrounded by the regime and the organization of the Islamic state except to go to the Jordanian border, which the regime quickly controlled. We had no choice but to reach the western region of Syria, The Brega area of ​​Quneitra on the border with Israel.

Jihad with a white helmet in Syria (Al Jazeera Net)

Zero hour
Despite his steadfastness in his talk about the horrors of war he has experienced and his enthusiasm to help the wounded, whatever he may be, he seems exhausted by his memory full of images and the smell of death and blood.

After an international briefing on the fate of the White Helmets, Canada made an extraordinary effort with Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands and other Western countries to resettle them after being evacuated to a United Nations refugee camp in Jordan via Israel.

Mason is excited to talk about the zero hour of evacuation and says about 420 White Helmets and their families managed to leave in July by giving them a safe passage from Quneitra to Israel in an hour-long process after they were searched by the Israeli side and brought to the Jordanian border for Bus road.

There is no doubt that the painful memories of the war, the sounds of the fall of the bombs, the loud explosions and the treatment of the war casualties have a painful impact on Maysoun and Jihad, and may take a long time to forget them, as well as their great concern about the fate of hundreds of their colleagues trapped and fleeing from the regime's oppression in Syria, hoping that the international community will renew its attempts. To save them.