Anniversary of the displacement of the people of Aleppo .. The pain of separation for the displaced and the hardship of life for the remainder

Omar Youssef - North of Syria

Exactly three years ago, the Abd al-Karim Arab family left the city of Aleppo indefinitely, as the family hastily loaded the remaining clothes, official documents and little money from their home in al-Mashhad neighborhood, after the Syrian regime imposed its full siege on the city in December 2016.

Through the green buses that became a symbol of forced displacement in Syria, the family traveled with thousands of civilians and military fighters from the opposition towards the countryside of Idlib, where they traveled to face the conditions of displacement and hardship of life, in light of the high cost of living and overcrowding of the population coming from Syria due to the successive waves of displacement imposed by The regime over the residents of the areas it controlled.

Abdel Karim says from his house in the Idlib countryside that the most difficult suffering he and his family faced was the separation of the city of Aleppo, and he left their home where they spent more than 15 years, “But humans are more precious than stone, and lives had to be saved at the expense of the city’s fall in the hands of the Syrian regime.” As Abdul Karim says, while he defeats tears.

Abdul Karim tells Al-Jazeera Net that mixed feelings were experienced by the people leaving the city, they are in a state of bliss after the separation they are the siege and death at the hands of the regime forces ready to storm the city, and a wave of sadness over the separation of the place and forced migration from their hometowns and leaving towards the unknown in the areas of opposition control north Syria.

Daily raids
Here in the northern countryside of Idlib, Syrian regime warplanes pursued the family fleeing death in Aleppo three years ago, where the scene is repeated before them as a result of daily raids on opposition cities and towns in northern Syria, and the Abdul Karim family (five individuals) finds itself in front of the option of displacement again to the Syrian border Turkish.

More than fifty thousand Syrians from the city of Aleppo participate in the family of Arabs, who went out with the convoys of forced displacement, and today they are distributed in the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib. Close to the Syrian-Turkish border, who are unable to secure the money for house rent and daily expenses.

Aleppo today
Three years after the regime took control of the entire city of Aleppo, the scene of destruction is still present in most eastern neighborhoods, such as the emblem, paradise, and diabetes, while the families who preferred to return to their homes over displacement pay a heavy tax from the government of the Syrian regime’s neglect to secure the basics of life from water and electricity .

In Aleppo, the spectacle of dozens of civilians is spreading densely, waiting for a gas cylinder to be provided by the government of the system through the "Sadkoub" Foundation, where civilians wait for more than eight hours in the morning within the queue, and some of them who do not get a cylinder, due to running out of quantities, To come back to wait the next day.

With the collapse of the value of the Syrian pound against the US dollar, and the price of one dollar approaching one thousand Syrian pounds, the price of foodstuffs has doubled in less than two months, while the city's markets are witnessing a great recession and weakness in the movement of buying and selling.

Prices are great
Amjad Al-Halabi (not his real name), from Aleppo residents, says that electricity only reaches the city's neighborhoods for only three hours over a 24-hour period. Specific days and hours are distributed over Aleppo neighborhoods.

In his interview with Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Halabi adds that the government employee can only secure the daily needs of his family for a week in a month from his salary, and the average salary is estimated at forty thousand Syrian pounds (the equivalent of fifty US dollars), stressing that the majority of families depend on the remittances of expatriates that come from Europe And Turkey.

Al-Halabi notes that the Russian forces deployed in Aleppo city from time to time distribute food aid to the people of the eastern neighborhoods, in an attempt to win over the residents, whose homes were destroyed by Russian warplanes during the attack on those neighborhoods at the end of 2016.