The Tragedy of a displaced family with special needs from Sere-Kaniye
Qamishli – North-Press Agency
Avin Shekhmous
Pain and suffer are hidden in lots of cities' walls, as displacement increases sorrow and helplessness, while heavy burden of life weighs on shoulders. This is the case of Sheikh Muhammad al-Ahmad and his wife, Mayufa Ahmad, whose journey began with having four children with special physical and mental needs, regardless of the parents' age, they took care of them.
Four sons and daughters suffering from physical and mental needs and difficult living conditions, beside medicines to take for the rest of their lives, as displacement put salt on wound. Muhammad was the imam of a mosque in the city of Sere-Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), while his four children with special needs, do not have the ability to work and support the family.
The four children grew up, the eldest is 50 years old, and the second is forty years old. The two girls, the elderly whose health is better than the rest, helps her parents and takes care of her siblings.
"Turkey and its affiliated armed militias pounded the city of Ras al-Ain by aerial and ground bombardment, on Wednesday afternoon," said Sheikh Muhammad al-Ahmad, beginning his talk with praising God, noting that they had taken refuge in the city's mosque to protect them from Turkish warplanes' airstrikes.
During intensive shelling, the family was forced to leave the town to a nearby village, as when they reached it, it turned to be empty of its inhabitants, who had to escape the bombing of Turkish military and the affiliated Syrian armed opposition groups.
On the second day, Turkish war-planes bombed the city of Sere-Kaniye even more intensely, Seikh Muhammad said: "When the shelling started, the ground shook under our feet because of the intensity of the shelling."
The family did not secure themselves in the village near the city of Sere-Kaniye, for fears of being targeted as well, so they went out of the village, moving about 2km away from there.
On their way, the family came across a checkpoint of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish), where they secured a car for them to take them to Tal Tamr, west of Hasakah, and then to the city of Qamishli.
The family of Muhammad al-Ahmad left their house in Sere-Kaniye only with the clothes they wore. "We could not get anything with us, we just came out with these clothes." Sheikh al-Ahmad said.
Some people of the city of Qamishli are trying to secure a home for the family of Muhammad al-Ahmad, where he, his wife and the four helpless sons and daughters can reside in.
"We are a family of six members. We all need to take medicine for the rest of our lives, because we have diseases," said Sheikh Muhammad.
"My husband said that they would not target us. I told him that we will inevitably flee," Mayufa said as she was assuring her husband that Turkey and its affiliated armed group will attack Sere-Kaniye and Tal Abyad (Gre-Spi).