(Eqtsad)- The Syrian winter has increased displaced suffering in southern Daraa province who live in makeshift camp, amid blatant ignorance by opposition parties and humanitarian relief organizations, activists said
Activist Qusay Horani said the regime blockade has isolated displaced from essential life needs.
“Lack of fund and resources and agencies' escaping of providing support to people in liberated areas have worsened and deteriorated the situation, as many families own nothing and only rely on support they receive form aid agencies, which are already not enough”, added.
Abo Kassem, 51,lives in Zayzoun camp explained: “the situation in the camp is miserable and has only limited services, moreover, winter with cold weather and rain has exacerbated the bad situation as water and mud entered tents”.
He added that they have nothing to warm themselves in that bitter cold as they have no money to afford for that. He pointed that that all the camp's residents are displaced people who left their homes because of the regime’s bombing, who had escaped for their lives without taking anything with them.
Abo Kassem added that in the beginning some organizations helped them but aid have fallen and became less. He appealed for humanitarian organizations to immediately intervene to provide requirements of displaced people who live in difficult humanitarian conditions.
"Om Jasser", 45, a mother of four from Zayzoun camp, said: "we left the countryside of Damascus to this camp, aiming to find our living needs, but conditions are tough on all, as aid and goods are not enough, I have only God to rely on, losing my husband in battles with the regime forces”.
She mentioned that services almost absent and food is not enough added to poor medical services and people live without fuel or means of heating. She called officials in the Opposition interim government and National coalition to visit the camp in order to evaluate needs of displaced people.
"Abo Marwan," a humanitarian activist, confirmed that many camps are spread in southern of Syria in villages at the Jordanian boarders, thousands of families from Daraa, Homs, Damascus and Quneitra fled the fighting areas live in them. He explained that suffering of displaced people in these camps are almost similar like lack of essential services, with some variation from one camp to another, but they all share the absence of medical and health care and educational services, besides worn out tents due to weather conditions which are already few compared to families number, not to mention the absence of electricity and drinking water.
He pointed out: "aid and relief organizations and associations seem to have become unable to provide any services for the growing numbers of displaced people, due to the lack of fund and depleting most of their resources to cover the ongoing bad situation the Syria".
For his side, lawyer Abdel Moneim Khalil, member of the Executive Office of the liberated Council of Daraa, head of the media Office, confirmed that "the Council is trying hard Within its limited resources to provide as much services as possible to displaced families, but he pointed out that resources are very limited and not enough to cover the displaced needs.
He added that the Council had organized several activities to collect support to displaced and distributed the collected aid over people, but he was disappointed as the activities were not up to his expectations, but he explained that people are already living in hard physical, economical and emotional conditions and they suffer of shortage of financial resources.
In regard to organizations’ work, he explained that their are many organizations and they assist in support but they lack cooperation and coordination, as some camps get aid frequently, while others receive almost nothing.
Khalil called on these organizations to cooperate and coordinate with the Council of Daraa in order to organize their activities to cover the needs of all camps equally and fairly.
There are more than 15 camps in the region of Daraa and Quneitra, where people from Homs, Damascus and Daraa and some other provinces had arrived to enter Jordan, but they was not allowed, which forced them to stay in these camps which lack basic living needs, causing spread of disease and epidemics, besides worsening economic and humanitarian conditions and poverty, added to shortage in active international aid. There is an urgent need to look at lives of these people and provide them at least minimum needs for decent human living.
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