Published : 14-09-2021
Residents of Deraa Camp, south of Syria, continue to denounce the exorbitant prices of food and non-food items.
Recently, the Syrian security forces unblocked AlJawiya checkpoint and allowed the access of civilians and vehicles out of and into the area.
Local sources told AGPS that power has been cut off since late June, when the Syrian regime imposed a tight blockade on the camp.
At the same time, a water tank of five barrels is sold at up to 7,000 Syrian pounds, overburdening even further the cash-stripped families.
On June 25, the regime forces asked the residents and former opposition forces to lay down all light weapons and allow them to search their homes. However, the Daraa Central Committee, the main reconciliation center in the area, noted that they were only supposed to hand in heavy weapons as part of the Russian-brokered agreement signed in July 2018. The regime then started imposing a blockade on some 40,000 civilians living in the area.
All entrances and exits from the district were blocked, and the transportation of all medical and food assistance, as well as fuel, prohibited.
Daraa-based activists told Anadolu Agency (AA) that another reason for the regime to impose the blockade was because the region’s people had opposed setting up ballot boxes for the regime’s so-called elections.
Residents of Deraa Camp, south of Syria, continue to denounce the exorbitant prices of food and non-food items.
Recently, the Syrian security forces unblocked AlJawiya checkpoint and allowed the access of civilians and vehicles out of and into the area.
Local sources told AGPS that power has been cut off since late June, when the Syrian regime imposed a tight blockade on the camp.
At the same time, a water tank of five barrels is sold at up to 7,000 Syrian pounds, overburdening even further the cash-stripped families.
On June 25, the regime forces asked the residents and former opposition forces to lay down all light weapons and allow them to search their homes. However, the Daraa Central Committee, the main reconciliation center in the area, noted that they were only supposed to hand in heavy weapons as part of the Russian-brokered agreement signed in July 2018. The regime then started imposing a blockade on some 40,000 civilians living in the area.
All entrances and exits from the district were blocked, and the transportation of all medical and food assistance, as well as fuel, prohibited.
Daraa-based activists told Anadolu Agency (AA) that another reason for the regime to impose the blockade was because the region’s people had opposed setting up ballot boxes for the regime’s so-called elections.
