Western neighborhoods of Aleppo a stage for falling shells
Aleppo – North-Press Agency
Sam al-Ahmad
A scene of the falling shells of the battling sides, this is the case of the western neighborhoods of Aleppo between the control of the Syrian government and its allies on one hand and the armed opposition groups on the other.
In the districts of Hamdaniyah, Halab al-Jadida and al-Zahraa, which is controlled by the Syrian government forces nearby the contact lines adjacent to Al-Rashidin neighborhood, held by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham HTS (previously known as al-Qaeda’s affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra), has become the scene of daily mutual shelling where shells hit civilian buildings by those conflicting parties.
International Calculations
Advocate Muhammad Zanabili, 40-year-old, a resident of Halab Al-Jadida neighborhood, told North-Press that this is not something new, “shells are falling on the streets of Aleppo and its neighborhoods since 2013, causing death and destruction,” noting that they have lived at times where calmness had prevailed and life got back to normal, but rather quickly it had turned back to the previous situation, because of the international calculations, as he said.
A battlefield
Since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis, the city of Aleppo has been the battleground for the government forces and their allies on one hand and the armed opposition groups on the other, where the battles have claimed the lives of thousands of civilians as a result of the heavy bombing by both sides, the Syrian government and the Russians, and the armed opposition groups.
Moving death
Tawfiq Hamwi, an owner of a market in Hamdaniyah neighborhood, who lost a brother by a shell fell near his market two years ago, has called the Syrian government to find a solution to what he called the moving death that targets every corner and street in Aleppo neighborhoods, especially in the western part of the city.
A home and destination
Although the war hasn’t stopped in the neighborhoods of Aleppo and its outskirts since 2013, and as the Syrian government and the opposition groups’ areas of control have changed, yet, these neighborhoods have remained a home for their families and a destination for thousands of displaced families from different Syrian areas, without taking into consideration the daily danger of sudden shelling and bloody battles that may spark at any moment between those conflicting parties.