"Sometimes we only eat bread, and sometimes I cannot secure food for my family today." With this phrase, the Syrian IDP Khadr Al-Khalaf residing in one of the camps in the Syrian north describes his deteriorating situation due to the rapid collapse of the Syrian pound, the high cost of living and high prices, coinciding with the start of the application of legal sanctions. Caesar "the American.
Al-Khalaf (36 years old), who lives in Shaker camp in the northern countryside of Aleppo, works in construction work with daily wages, where he receives an amount ranging between 500 to 1,000 Syrian pounds (less than half a dollar), and he can barely, with this small amount, buy a bundle of bread And little food for his family in the random camp.
Al-Khalaf indicates in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net that the rise in food prices to more than double during the current month is heavier on his shoulders, especially that he is a daily worker and receives his wage in the Syrian pound, which lost its value, and the majority of the population are trying to get rid of them after the start of dealing in the Turkish lira in northern Syria.
Although the successor IDP does not follow political news, he has heard that the sanctions of the US "Caesar" law have come into force in Syria against the regime and its agents, and he hopes - as the camp residents - to return to their homes and topple the regime and everyone who conspired against the Syrian people, he said.
And because the camp was established on agricultural land and counted on informal settlements, aid does not reach its residents except from time to time, and the residents complain about the lack of access to the basics of daily life from drinking water, electricity, cleaning materials, and sterilization.
With the increase in prices due to the collapse of the lira and the conflicts within the corridors of the regime in Syria, the conditions of the displaced people have worsened and they are facing the high cost of lira after the value of the lira has become more than 2500 Syrian pounds per dollar, according to the daily exchange rate.
The displaced Shaker Yassin, 34, complains about the lack of aid from civil society organizations, and he and his fellow camp residents are facing daily workers the problem of dealing with the Syrian pound until the moment, as most of the prices have become linked to the dollar, he said.
On the penalties of the "Caesar" law, Yassin says that its effects will be on the whole of Syria, not just on the system, especially since the exchange rate has increased in northern Syria after its application last Wednesday, but he hopes to have results against the Syrian regime.
One million displaced
and human rights organizations' statistics indicate very high numbers of camps and displaced people as a result of the recent military operation of the Syrian regime in Idlib. Despite the relative calm and semi-stability on the ground, the collapse of the lira has cast a heavy shadow on thousands of displaced civilians.
The head of the "response coordinators" team, Muhammad Hallaj, says that the number of Syrian north camps has reached 1277 camps, among which 366 random camps do not receive any aid or support, while the population of those camps amounts to more than 1.4 million civilians, of whom 183 thousand reside in the informal settlements .
With the deterioration of the value of the Syrian pound, Hallaj notes that the circulation of the Turkish lira in the Syrian north has resulted in great harm to the daily workers who are paid their wages to this day in the Syrian pound, as the wage of the worker does not exceed 3000 Syrian pounds, which is equivalent to 5 Turkish liras, in When the price of a bundle of bread is two Turkish lira.