Reports | 25 05 2020
More than three thousand children are living in the besieged town of Darya, for nearly four years, no games to play, no food as it should, and their daily details are filled with destruction and ruin.
"The Soup we eat every day; looks like water. I miss my school and friends. I miss playing football and watching TV. I miss being a child.” Says the ten years old Majd, sadly.
Darya has been under a suffocating siege since late 2012, after the Syrian regime forces closed all the entrances to the city, except for “al-Muadamiya” entrance, which has been recently closed, where the Syrian regime managed to separate the two cities since 3 months in a military operation.
While Darya’s massacre considered to be the largest massacres in the past four years, when the Syrian regime forces broke into the city on August- 2012, resulted in 750 deaths, and 220 others were missing.
No Sweets for the Children
Between the bombing and the siege; the children's life in this city has reduced, the were deprived of their most basic rights in education, play and food, one meal daily, like the six-year old “Amenah”, who summarize her suffering in a sentence:” "No electricity, no sweets in Darya."
While she didn’t hide missing her house, which has been destroyed by the Syrian regime warplanes, and she wishes to live a peaceful life like other children.
More than eight thousand civilians are trapped, their situation worsened, after cutting the link between Darya and Muadamia, and their lives have become depending on what enters into the city by smuggling through the Syrian regime checkpoints, by paying large sums of money.
Abu Ahmed, a man from Darya who is a father of three children, talks about the exceptional circumstances and great difficulties experienced by him and his family: "Sometimes I do not have answers to questions repeated by my kids, can’t offer anything to them, no clothes, no food, plus they are learning in the bases, due to the destruction of most of the schools as a result of the shelling, here, we are deprived of life because of the siege. "
Medical suffering!
600 children were born from the womb of the siege, and depriver of the most basic conditions for life, “Diaa’”, a doctor in a field hospital in Darya, confirms that there is no vaccines or drugs entering to the city, in addition to a significant lack of necessities.
Since a year and a half the infant formula was missed from the city, and replaced by milk of cows and livestock, which increased the spread of some diseases, such as infection of intestinal.
He added: "also, we suffer from a lack of medicine, sometimes we have to give children expired medicines but within the healthy controls, there are children become the age of three years and did not receive any vaccine."
Syrian regime refuses to enter any aid to the town of Darya, although its presence within the areas covered by the Munich agreement on Syria, to enter aid to besieged areas.
A delegation from the United Nations has entered the besieged city the middle of this month, in order to determine the conditions of civilians without being accompanied by any aid, but the delegation was shocked of how badly medical and humanitarian situation is in the city, and the hope of entering aid to the city was faded after a long wait.
In order to lift the siege on the city, the women of the city have appealed to the international community earlier this month to open the roads leading to Darya, allowing the entrance of necessary assistance such as drinking water and medicine, especially after the city became completely closed in the face of fleeing civilians from the bombardment.
