His head gets out of line;

He looks in front of him, trying to find out where the role has arrived without losing his place, for more than half an hour has passed since Omar Al-Abdullah queued in front of the Sondos Hall of the Syrian Trade, the governmental institution concerned with providing food and basic subsidized supplies to the Syrian citizen.

He has taken the trouble to stand in the blazing sun in order to obtain his family's allowances of sugar and rice, but Omar knows that obtaining it requires that great effort, and he will not achieve what he aspires to without entering these gatherings, even if those lines are a preferred place for the Corona virus to rhythm. With the largest number of victims.

Without "bags,"


Omar finally stands in front of the employee, and shows him what is known as the smart card that reveals the amount owed to his family of subsidized materials every month.

He describes the situation during an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, where he says that his standing in front of the employee was interspersed with voices coming from behind complaining and denouncing the long time standing in front of the institution.

Crowding in front of a petrol station (social networking sites)

But Omar wants to make up his mind quickly because he arrived at the Sondos hall an hour and a half ago, and he has other lines waiting for him, such as the one lining up around the car carrying "household gas."

Omar points out that he often gains in the end the quantities of sugar and rice, and because he has previous experiences he brought with him "bags" in order to carry the materials because the institution does not always provide it with "bags", as the employee often tells the citizens that it has run out, and you will not be able to obtain On materials without you having "bags", and this may be normal, but Omar describes it as intentional behavior, and as "humiliation to the citizen" with all the details, starting from the moment he stands in the queue for rice and sugar!

Deliberate bureaucracy!


Omar criticizes what he describes as the deliberate bureaucracy in the Syrian government institutions, as he assured Al-Jazeera Net that the presence of one employee in the hall dedicated to providing subsidized materials is being deliberately done so that the citizen goes into suffering in order to get simple things that his obtaining will turn into a great thing, and thus he will not think about the bigger things in The country like politics or corruption to say the least.


Omar says that the queuing culture is rooted in everything from the "jar" of household gas, to sugar and rice, to bread, the basic material for the citizen.

While Ghassan Nabulsi considers that these gatherings are the main reason for the spread of the Corona virus, Nabulsi, who is the father of 3 children, confirmed that the queues that are spreading everywhere from all over the Syrian governorates contributed to the explosion of Coronavirus infections, whose true numbers are not known by the Ministry of Health.

Ghassan told Al-Jazeera Net that his younger brother was infected with the virus while he was in the Sayeda Zeinab area to obtain a "jar" of household gas, noting that most of the infections he knew in Damascus among his relatives had occurred from similar gatherings, placing the blame on the "government" that must impose Even if temporary measures are taken during this sensitive phase represented by the Corona pandemic.

Citizens queue in the city of Aleppo waiting to obtain a gas cylinder (French)

A permanent shortage


Syria lives from time to time a shortage of a specific substance, which increases the overcrowding more than others, and those that are not included in the regular queues, crowding on them are greater and more, as is happening now from a shortage of fuel in all Syrian governorates, as fuel stations are witnessing great crowding After the shortage of basic stocks in the country.

For its part, Syrian media quoted the Ministry of Points as saying that it had reduced the quantities provided for "gases" due to the decrease in the amount of fuel throughout Syria.

This was met with widespread reactions from Syrians on social media, in which they criticized and ridiculed the situation reached by the regions of the Syrian regime, as they published pictures of the queues in front of the tobacco establishment in addition to the lines of eggs, bread, sugar, rice, fuel, and others!