(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)
All difficult circumstances and hard living conditions from poverty, unemployment, bad weather have gathered to harden the life of people in the countryside of Hasaka, especially in the days of Eid Adha, beside school opening time, added to unbearable rules of the Islamic State.
Activist Osama Mulla Mohammed told Zaman al-Wasl that the living conditions and humanitarian status is declining in the cities under the Islamic State’s control in Southern Hasaka like the city of Shaddadi, Nawahi, Arisha, Markada, which forced people to leave their areas because of the harsh conditions and the lack of employment opportunities for young people added to the rise in food prices and other materials in markets.
The activist expected that prices would carry on rising especially food and meat as Adha Eid is coming, while members of ISIS are trying to impose regulations in market and prevent large gatherings in the market of Mrkada with forcing people on the Sharea dresses for the market visitors.
The Activist added that people try create jobs opportunities in the petrol refineries in primitive methods or by opening internet shops. However, hard regulations on Internet cafes by ISIS and targeting the refineries by the US-led alliance aircraft in September 2014, led people to lose their job, but now the work returned in those refineries at high wages because of the high risk of being bombed by the aircrafts.
In regard to the sources of financial support, the activist mentioned that the majority of the people in the city depend on agriculture and crops trade, as well as remittances sent from their relatives from abroad.
Others work for ISIS in oil and gas wells and refineries, furnaces and mills. Apart from all those jobs, the unemployment rate reaches to 80% among young people and who are able to work.
Schools and teaching are another story according to the activist, students of schools in the areas under the Syrian regime’s control and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) have opened and starting teaching their own curriculum, however schools under ISIS’s control in the southern countryside of Hasaka are still close despite they have created their own curriculum, but they do not have plans how to implement it or how to control schools and teaching process. Moreover the Islamic state arrests teacher of private lessons, all that threatens a whole generation of illiteracy, which scares families as their children age 7-13 years are still out of schools.
In regard to health conditions and diseases, they are worsening as a result of water scarcity, shortage of health services and centres and medical staff, as well as the lack of medicines in pharmacies.
A medical source talked to Zaman al-Wasl on condition of anonymity confirmed that health conditions in the region are deteriorating as vaccination are not performed, while elderly and people with chronic disease have no medication or care. While the only available medicine is that smuggled from Iraq, which is more likely to be expired.
The free medical services are limited to Shaddadi National Hospital, which has become known as the General Hospital, but many critical conditions are transferred to hospitals of Mayadin and Raqqa because of lack of equipment and resources.
The same source confirmed the widespread of intestinal and skin diseases, lice among people because of the scarcity of safe clean drinking water, while people use wells for bathing and washing, Sometimes drinking water tanks is taken in tanks to Markada from the water station in the village of Sabha in Deir Ez-zour and sold at 300 Syrian pounds per barrel, while drinking water for the city of Shaddadi and Alhol is brought from Nafasha village near Kawkab Mountain.
The Islamic state ISIS has since the end of March 2014 controlled the whole towns and villages of the southern countryside of the province of Hasaka, after fierce battles lasted for months with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Nusra Front in Markada town.
All difficult circumstances and hard living conditions from poverty, unemployment, bad weather have gathered to harden the life of people in the countryside of Hasaka, especially in the days of Eid Adha, beside school opening time, added to unbearable rules of the Islamic State.
Activist Osama Mulla Mohammed told Zaman al-Wasl that the living conditions and humanitarian status is declining in the cities under the Islamic State’s control in Southern Hasaka like the city of Shaddadi, Nawahi, Arisha, Markada, which forced people to leave their areas because of the harsh conditions and the lack of employment opportunities for young people added to the rise in food prices and other materials in markets.
The activist expected that prices would carry on rising especially food and meat as Adha Eid is coming, while members of ISIS are trying to impose regulations in market and prevent large gatherings in the market of Mrkada with forcing people on the Sharea dresses for the market visitors.
The Activist added that people try create jobs opportunities in the petrol refineries in primitive methods or by opening internet shops. However, hard regulations on Internet cafes by ISIS and targeting the refineries by the US-led alliance aircraft in September 2014, led people to lose their job, but now the work returned in those refineries at high wages because of the high risk of being bombed by the aircrafts.
In regard to the sources of financial support, the activist mentioned that the majority of the people in the city depend on agriculture and crops trade, as well as remittances sent from their relatives from abroad.
Others work for ISIS in oil and gas wells and refineries, furnaces and mills. Apart from all those jobs, the unemployment rate reaches to 80% among young people and who are able to work.
Schools and teaching are another story according to the activist, students of schools in the areas under the Syrian regime’s control and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) have opened and starting teaching their own curriculum, however schools under ISIS’s control in the southern countryside of Hasaka are still close despite they have created their own curriculum, but they do not have plans how to implement it or how to control schools and teaching process. Moreover the Islamic state arrests teacher of private lessons, all that threatens a whole generation of illiteracy, which scares families as their children age 7-13 years are still out of schools.
In regard to health conditions and diseases, they are worsening as a result of water scarcity, shortage of health services and centres and medical staff, as well as the lack of medicines in pharmacies.
A medical source talked to Zaman al-Wasl on condition of anonymity confirmed that health conditions in the region are deteriorating as vaccination are not performed, while elderly and people with chronic disease have no medication or care. While the only available medicine is that smuggled from Iraq, which is more likely to be expired.
The free medical services are limited to Shaddadi National Hospital, which has become known as the General Hospital, but many critical conditions are transferred to hospitals of Mayadin and Raqqa because of lack of equipment and resources.
The same source confirmed the widespread of intestinal and skin diseases, lice among people because of the scarcity of safe clean drinking water, while people use wells for bathing and washing, Sometimes drinking water tanks is taken in tanks to Markada from the water station in the village of Sabha in Deir Ez-zour and sold at 300 Syrian pounds per barrel, while drinking water for the city of Shaddadi and Alhol is brought from Nafasha village near Kawkab Mountain.
The Islamic state ISIS has since the end of March 2014 controlled the whole towns and villages of the southern countryside of the province of Hasaka, after fierce battles lasted for months with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Nusra Front in Markada town.
Zaman Al Wasl
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