Snipers, killing machine threaten Syrians

"On average I treat about 10 people a day, every single day, but Fridays are always the worst" Sam, the 25 years old, young doctor said to BBC correspondent about victims of snipers in Bustan al-Qasr crossing point. "Yesterday about 30 people were shot here." He added to BBC.

"Today, at about midday, I treated someone who had been shot in the arm” Sam continued "He was a child, they usually are. I think that the snipers are aiming for kids, just kids."

Sam explained the reaction of people when they hear the sniper’s shot saying: “everybody reacts differently to the sound of the sniper's bullet. When shots ring out, the sea of people in the marketplace parts as most people press themselves against the walls of the buildings - as if, somehow, that will save them”

He commented on other kind of people, the fatalistic ones, as they just carry on walking straight down the middle of the road in a gesture of defiance.

Sara is an activist and a student, she lives on the rebel side of the city and she crosses over Bustan al-Qasr crossing poin to pick up her notes from the University, which is in the regime-held part, said: “One day I crossed in the morning, and by the time I came back 15 people had been killed there”

 The situation in other cities is as bad, in Homs for example, Gardinia tower, Homs’s dream, has turned into the worst night mare for Homs and people, it became a killing machine, where dozens of snipers based there and working relentlessly in shooting every moving body.

The high attitude  of the tower, heavy concentration of dozens of snipers and a number of heavy machine guns along the tower made any move to lift the siege from Homs  tremendously difficult.

Every day there is dozens of victims from the surrounding neighborhood like Alkarabis, Jouret Shiah and Alkosoor, even many households and residential areas were targeted in Alwa’er neighborhood.

“there is more than 13 thousands iranian snipers, 9 thousands Iraqi snipers, and 2700 from Lebanon” Moa’az al-Saffouk said in his talk to Almokhtasar news.