Al -Jazeera Net Correspondents
Daraa- Daraa’s name has always expressed the Syrian gate on history and dignity, which is the city that lives today, the post -liberation phase, swinging between the reality of the miserable and tiring hopes of the next, perhaps the most beautiful.
Since the declaration of the fall of the Assad regime and the liberation of Syria, the details of the daily suffering have not changed much, but rather may have increased in many aspects, as if the war left with its lethality, but left behind silent grinding battles that included the details of daily life.
In the streets of Daraa, the movement returns shy; There is a girl who goes to schools with torn shoes and bags free of notebooks, and at the other side are senior roaming in the markets and their eyes spinning in their heads of worry in the hope of finding an acceptable price or passing job opportunity, while the sellers display their expensive limited goods, and in the background of the scene the spices of the spices can hide the bitterness of high prices.
Complex
In a tour of the markets that were ever filled with life, the eye does not mistake the economic stagnation you see, and the reason is not only due to poverty of pockets and the dry liquidity, but to the complexity of the economic and political conditions that cast a shadow over all the details of daily life, especially the living from them.
“People are returning to the country after a long time and displacement, but life does not return as it was ever. Electricity comes only 3 hours, and water does not reach only two days a week, who can live in light of this cruelty and cruelty?” Says Abu Khaled.
On the humanitarian level, the stories of return outperformed the scenes of displacement and displacement, many returned to find their homes destroyed, looted, or not valid for housing, as many families live today between the rubble, they make doors from the curtains, and from the stones, and do not know where to go.
According to the international reports, more than 82% of the Syrians live below the poverty line, and perhaps the reality of reality discovers that the percentage is greater than that, which is clearly embodied by Daraa.
In Houran – in the same way, nicknamed “Mother of the Orphans”, poverty was not new, but today it has become more fierce, raised for man and clearly visible, especially since it is associated with the lack of services, high prices, decline in agriculture, and almost complete paralysis in local industries.
Heavy legacy
At the same time, it appears that the new government is still suffering from the heavy legacy of the former regime and is not yet able to secure the lowest elements of life due to the infrastructure that it has destroyed and exhausted by the ousted regime. Electricity does not visit the homes of the population except for limited hours, and the drinking water will reach through the tanks at exorbitant prices.
Even bread, which is the strength of the life of the Syrian citizen, it is a “miserable” commodity in terms of quality and ability to collect it, so it is not sold until after fighting in long lines that extend since dawn, in the absence of the supported flour and decreased in the efficiency of bakeries.
As for the health situation, it is no less miserable, as hospitals are working with exhausted crews that are unable to cover the need, and the basic drugs are either missing or expensive, while private clinics receive patients who can pay the inspection wages with a human margin that doctors leave in their own clinics for the needy, but the general poor are captive to their pain.
With regard to education, schools are exhausted and the curricula are torn and the staff is very short, and students are studying in rooms that do not protect them from the cold of winter or the heat of the summer, while some schools were restored with the efforts of expatriates while many of them remained out of service due to the effects of the devastating war; In one of the schools near the city center, the number of teachers does not exceed 3, while the classes are filled with more than 50 students in one room, and this is only a model for a large painful image.
Determance and will
However, the city remains beating with the remaining determination, determination and will, as local activists organize compensatory courses, and make a voluntary service team in various fields.
Despite all this cruelty in living, the city does not lose its soul. People in Daraa are paste in the sense of belonging to a homeland that promotes them, and they are used to build a new dream. The evenings still gather families about the hadiths of duty, vigor and starting, leadership in work and the necessities of giving and giving.
The mosques are still in Daraa, the launching centers of work, construction and initiatives for the advancement, as they were by the starting centers of the revolution to destroy tyranny; A shield after liberation is not only a city that came out of the war, but it is trying to build itself outside the memory of the war and inside a new conflict entitled steadfastness, and it stands on the threshold of the future, does not deny the pain of the present, but it insists that it is one morning, it is a city that deserves life.