The cut in fuel allocations to gas stations caused a stifling transportation crisis in the city of Damascus, the effects of which became clear after photos of hundreds of citizens piling at the main bus station of the capital.
Social media activists in the regime-controlled areas made calls to everyone who owns a car of any kind, even if it is a truck for transporting livestock or transporting building materials, in order to help get people to their homes before the Maghrib prayer on the Ramadan day.
The pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper quoted an official source in the Damascus governorate as saying that the number of daily requests in the capital is estimated at 24 requests for diesel and gasoline, while it has been reduced to less than 20 requests, which caused a major congestion on transportation, he said. .
In a related context, a source in the Ministry of Oil attributed the reason for the decrease in allocations to the governorates to the delay in the arrival of supplies "as a result of the sanctions and the unjust siege imposed on the country," as he described it.
The Syrian economy has been devastated by war and witnessed massive destruction of infrastructure worth $120 billion as the UN estimates, the rebuilding of war-torn Syria would need around $250-400 billion.
The regime-controlled areas suffer from a stark rise in the prices of basic materials and food commodities, amid government promises to fight monopoly.
The Syrian revolution that turned into a bloody conflict has claimed 500,000 lives and has displaced 13,2 million people since it erupted in March 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-regime protests.
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