Syria’s Hasakah receives water from Turkish-occupied Alouk station
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday morning, water from Alouk water station in Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) reached the city of Hasakah, northeast Syria, after three months of halt.
Issa Younis, co-chair of Water Directorate in Hasakah, told North Press after four days of pumping from the Alouk station, reservoirs have been filled on Friday at midnight, adding that “pumping water to Hasakah neighborhoods started this morning.”
On October 19, Alouk water station resumed pumping water to the city of Hasakah and its countryside after an 88-day-cutoff.
Since early August, Turkish forces and their affiliated Syrian opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), have stopped water pumping from the station to nine neighborhoods in Hasakah and its countryside.
Younis noted that water supply is “very weak.”
He went further saying that the pumping is continuing to all neighborhoods and that pumping started in the neighborhoods of Tel Hajar and Merdian in the city center.
Since 2019, Turkey and SNA factions have cut off water coming from the station to Hasakah and its countryside 27 times.
Alouk water station, which lies in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) in the northern countryside of Hasakah, is the only water resource feeding Hasakah and its countryside. The station is controlled by Turkey and its affiliated SNA.
In 2019, Turkish forces and the SNA factions launched the “Peace Spring” military operation where it occupied Sere Kaniye and its countryside.
Turkey’s cutoffs threaten about a million and a half people with a real disaster as cholera infections record a notable spike in the region.