Frequent displacement, poverty and disease swaying the life of a displaced woman

Derik- North-Press Agency

Solnar Muhammad

Their stories, pain and suffering are similar in tents that have become their only property, some of whom did not expect to spend their lives in tents away from home, and others are trying to adapt to the situation imposed on them, hoping to return to their homes one day. They escaped the war and its horror, moving from one place to the other, and from one camp to another in an attempt to find shelter for themselves and their families.

Khanem Mustafa, whose condition is very similar to the situation of other displaced people in the camps, as she also left her home to escape the bombing of the Turkish aircraft and Turkish-backed armed groups' attacks. After a seven-year exodus, she thought that the Syrian war had ended. "We went back to our land, we kissed its soil, we restored our homes, and we enjoyed a quiet life far from war," Khanem said to North-Press.

The situation did not last long for the quiet life which Khanem talked about, as the recent Turkish military and its affiliated armed groups’ invasion forced her to leave her land and home again, on another displacement, she does not even know its direction. "We escaped the war-planes that were bombing our area," she added, referring to Turkish war-planes, saying: "We left our house even without closing its doors."

In her talk, Khanem noted that the Turkish-backed armed groups have seized her house and looted its belongings. With her husband, whose strength have been shattered, she left to the city of Raqqa, to live in a house without doors, then to take refuge finally at Newroz camp, in the town of Derik, northeastern Syria. According to Khanem, her tent lacks heater, covers and gas cylinders, to continue saying: "We need thick blankets, the blankets they gave us are thin, as we are not protected from the cold of winter."

Bad years forced the Syrians to confine their requirements to blankets and tents, to protect them from the cold of winter and the heat of summer, which are considered to be an obvious component of life.  About 50 families with a total of 210 people, live in "Newroz" camp, of whom  were displaced from the areas of Sere-Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tal Abyad (Gre-Spi), in addition to the displaced people from the areas of Kobani and Afrin, in Aleppo governorate.