Closing crossings between Syrian regions unacceptable: Tribal notable
SHADDADI, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, an Arab tribal figure in the city of Shaddadi, northeastern Syria, demanded the Syrian government reopen the crossings with areas held by the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (AANES).
Since March 21, the Syrian government has imposed restrictions on the movement of civilians and trade in three crossings linking its areas with the AANES-held areas.
Suleiman Darwish, a notable of the al-Mahasin tribe in Shaddadi, said that the regions of northeastern Syria are “Syrian territories, and it is not permissible to close crossings between the Syrian regions.”
“The closure of crossings negatively affected the residents of the region, and resulted in the rise of the food prices and vegetables coming from central Syria,” he told North Press.
“The living condition has become so difficult in light of the high prices and the big collapse of the value of the Syrian pound; it has become even worse after the government closed the three crossings with AANES,” he explained.
It is not known, until now, the reasons for the government’s closure of the crossings.
Darwish asked the officials of the Syrian government to sit at the dialogue table with the AANES “to resolve the problem of the closure of crossings.”
Al-Tayha crossing in Manbij, al-Tabqa crossing, and al-Akirshi crossing in Raqqa are the three crossings linking the government-held areas with the AANES-held areas.