Mohammed al-Jazairi, north of Syria
"Ramadan comes to us hard and makes us hungry, but we believe in generosity this month." So young Juma'a Ahmad described the month of Ramadan which paved the doors; but the camps in the north of Syria provide only tents that cover the inside of them without being protected by cold or heat.
Juma is displaced with his family from the eastern Aleppo countryside. He lives in Yazabagh Pref camp in northern Aleppo. He works as a laborer. He says that his work is hard work and barely covers the expenses of life, and on some days he finds no work for his family and his hands are empty.
"The hardship of our work is compounded by the hardship of fasting and the burden of securing daily needs and rising prices. Sometimes we lose our awareness of the intensity of fatigue."
Hundreds of young camp residents offer their services every day in occupations that do not require experience. They gather in the main squares of the cities in the hope that they will be offered a chance to work for their day. These opportunities range from transporting cement, transporting furniture, digging or harvesting agricultural land.
"Our bodies have been exhausted by hard work without rest, we fear the disease because it will cut our lives and cost us the cost of treatment," says Ghayath, one of the workers. "Jobs are less than Ramadan, and they have to wait on the sidewalks under the sun for hours without success.
| Youth displaced waiting in the streets of the city of Izzaz opportunity to work (Al Jazeera) |
Increased poverty
According to a United Nations study, more than 80 percent of Syrians live below the poverty line, noting that the difficult times in Syria are not over, according to the team of response coordinators in the Syrian-controlled north of the country that the main reason for the increase in poverty is the spread of unemployment due to war , Economic instability, the fall in the exchange rate of the Syrian pound, and the excessive rise in prices.
"Any person who had a sum of money during the nine years of the war was exhausted by different exchange rates and rising prices," said Mohamed Halaj, head of the team of response coordinators, adding that the displaced arrived after they had lost all their possessions and incurred new expenses from paying a house and buying basic supplies.
| Massive displacement in Idlib countryside due to the escalation of the regime (Anatolia) |
Continuing displacement
The team documented the displacement of nearly half a million civilians since the beginning of this year as a result of the ongoing military campaign by the regime forces on the northern villages of Hama and the southern countryside of Idlib. Some of them resorted to cities on the border north, and some of them resorted to caves in the mountains or agricultural land among the olive trees.
Civil organizations expect the spread of diseases and undernourishment among IDPs if the escalation continues and no shelter is provided for the people.
It is worth mentioning that more than 700 thousand civilians live in random camps and organized in the north of Syria, hoping to return to their homes, but the continuous escalation squandered their hopes and keep them imprisoned between the edges of a tent cloth, if the winter came upon it sank and if summer came almost burned from it .