Northwestern Syria IDPs suffer the absence of aid and negligence
Idlib – North-Press Agency
The displaced people of the village of Umm Nir, in Shahshabo Mountain, in the northwestern Hama countryside had established a camp as a result of the intensified aerial and ground bombardment by the Syrian government on their village, which caused the destruction of houses, properties, and infrastructure of the village.
The displaced villagers gathered in one place after dispersing in different areas of northern Idlib governorate as they confirmed that many of them had health issues, in particular, caused by snakebites and scorpions’ stings.
Abdul Moneim Al-Muhammad, the head of the IDP camp told North-Press that the recent military pressure by the Syrian government forces pushed them to leave their villages and towns and rent a piece of agricultural land in the town of Kafr Nasih, near the city of Idlib, for $ 400″.
Umm Nir camp suffers the lack of logistic equipment, which drives most of its residing families to live together in a limited number of tents.
The camp manager explained that the residents of the camp needed “many basic equipment such as drinking water, carpets for the camp before winter time besides providing the camp with water cycles,” pointing to the need to “solve the problem of having three to four families together in one tent, in addition, some of them used worn blankets to make their tents.”
He continued talking on the health problems that are prevalent in the camp, where some people suffer chronic and incurable diseases that need constant medical and health care, Muhammad said, “We have cases of health impairment as heart obstruction and neurological diseases in addition to deafness cases and some children who need continuous medical care”.
While Naji Al-Muhammad, a resident of the camp, spoke about the poor and deteriorating situation inside the camp and the weakness of the services provided, as he explained: “I live in a tent that includes four families of my relatives, where we sewed a number of worn blankets and bought others at low prices”.
Naji added: “We moved some of the equipment that we used to put on the surroundings of our houses such an iron fence to put it on the outer edge of the tent, and we borrowed the iron poles, that are used inside the tent, from one of my friends in Jabal al-Zawiya in order to shelter us from the heat of summer”.
He continued Sorrowfully: “But I gave the iron poles back to my friend who lent them to me after his house was targeted by an airstrike and his escape towards northern of Syria where he built a tent for his family there”, Naji stressed that “the ongoing military campaign puts them in front of more obstacles”.
He also pointed to the worsening humanitarian situation in the absence of work on one hand, and the great financial pressure on the other hand, by saying: “I support my sister’s family, as she lost her husband in an airstrike, she lives with me now in the same tent”.
Residents of the camp agreed with what the camp manager and another resident had talked about, yet it was so little compared to people’s suffering, who were speechless and unable to describe their suffering, especially in the absence of the most necessary services.