AANES criticizes NGOs failure to help residents of Syria’s Hasakah
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – An official of the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES) criticized yesterday NGOs in northeast Syria since they failed to assume their duty in helping the residents of Guweiran and al-Zohour neighborhoods who fled their homes to other neighborhoods following the attack by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah, northeast Syria.
“Unfortunately, there was lax of some NGOs especially those affiliated with the UN whose responsibility is to help those displaced,” said Sheikhmous Ahmad, head of the AANES Office of Displaced Persons and Refugees.
Ahmad added that those NGOs “focus only on the Syrian government-held neighborhoods where no displaced locals were there.”
Earlier, the AANES Health Board said the Syrian government are putting pressure on international organizations, preventing them from working within the AANES-held areas.
The Health Board indicated that the city of Hasakah is in dire need of medical assistance, especially with the continuation of military operations in the city, and the presence of large numbers of wounded.
On January 20, ISIS sleeper cells carried out a series of attacks on al-Sina’a prison, where thousands of ISIS members are detained, to break their ISIS inmates fellows out of the prison, which led the residents of the neighboring areas to flee and take shelter in mosques.