(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of families in the city of Harasta have been living in shelters for 26 days to escape regime forces and Russian ally constant bombing of the city by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally. The children are without education and all schools have stopped functioning due to deteriorating situation whereas these families suffer from poor health conditions due to lack of good lighting, water and electricity.
To escape death, Harasta residents in Eastern Ghouta live in shelters. The shelters are basements designed in the bottom of the residential building to maintain their lives. These basements are not equipped to be emergency fit in light of power cut in the cases of continued bombings.
One of the women living in the shelters was nine month pregnant and gave birth to a young child in the worst conditions that can be lived by the child. The child appearing in the pictures is only 30 hours old. The rescue teams worked in the city to secure his birth in a hospital outside the city, but after birth the child returned to the same shelter to live with the rest of his family in the suffering of cold and dark and the worst health conditions.
The residents of the city were completely deprived of the right to walk through the streets of the city where destruction looms. No single house has been saved from shelling. This forced a curfew on the city and most services stopped functioning.
Many members of these families are ill inside these basements with little food and difficulty in bringing food. Most of them are waiting for relief organizations or someone to risk and go out to the nearest place where food is available.
Husam al-Bayrouti, head of Local Council in Harasta said, " Syrian regime and its allies started a fierce military campaign that began at the end of last year, forcing people to resort to the basements to escape the constant bombardment."
The residents of the city were completely deprived of the right to walk through the streets of the city, and their features are different. A single house of rocket fire and artillery shells was constantly fired. These shells are falling on them, creating a curfew and stopping all services in the town and the lack of markets of all kinds.
Many members of these families are sick in the cellars, so little food and difficulty in bringing him, waiting for all those inside the cellars reach relief organizations or risk someone out to the nearest place where food is available to bring them.
"The military campaign that began at the end of last year, the Syrian regime and its allies have launched a very focused campaign on the city, forcing people to resort to the basements to escape the constant bombardment," he said.
Al-Bayrouti confirmed that the basements secure partial protection for civilians, while causing them many health problems, which have recently appeared in women and children due to lack of adequate services such as salty water and lack of sunlight.
He pointed out that the time spent by civilians in these basements and lack of movement and the cessation of work and some service institutions led to deterioration of social and living conditions, most of these families spend 24 hours inside the basements.
These humanitarian disasters in the city of Harasta and the rest of the Eastern Ghouta cities are caused by more than 255 sorties carried out by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally, equivalent to 620 air raids and the killing of more 245 civilians in Eastern Ghouta since 29-12-2017 until 17 of this month. In addition to hundreds of artillery shells and mortars documented by the monitoring centers inside Syria, so the humanitarian disasters are increasing day after day with the continued bombing and blockade.
Zaman A Wasl
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