Published : 01-10-2016
In the south of Syria, people in Daraa Camp complain from the spread of the rodents (mice and rats) in most of the destroyed and abandoned houses. This was due to the absence of relief and service teams, and absence of UNRWA services, especially medical centers. Furthermore, people have been suffering from cutout of water crisis in the camp since April 2014. Consequently, citizens have to use artesian wells to secure some water for their children although this water is polluted, but it is still the only choice for them. Otherwise, they have to walk for long distances to bring clean water. However, the second solution is risky because the snipers are spreading on the building overseeing the camp's streets.
In the same context, people are suffering from many difficulties in getting water out from the wells such as the continuous power cut and lack of fuel that is needed in running electric generators in order to run water pumps. These difficulties led the people to use manual pumps in order to overcome this problem during power cut for long time; it reaches 20 hours of power cut a day, and sometimes it is cut for days. In addition, mobile and telephone services are completely stopped.
The camp, which is located in the eastern part of Daraa and near from the direct confrontation points with the Syrian regime's site, was exposed to a systematic destruction processes and daily bombarding with different types of weapons. This led to the destruction of more than 80% of houses and infrastructure and transmigration of most of its residents to other places.
According to AGPS reporter, the camp is inhabited by mixture of Palestinian refugees and Syrians that have fled from Golan Heights, in addition to some citizens from the district. He pointed that, " the Camp, before the war , was inhabited by more than 40,000 people: 25,000 were Syrians and 17,000 were Palestinian refugees. Nowadays, just 265 families are still living in the camp."
In the south of Syria, people in Daraa Camp complain from the spread of the rodents (mice and rats) in most of the destroyed and abandoned houses. This was due to the absence of relief and service teams, and absence of UNRWA services, especially medical centers. Furthermore, people have been suffering from cutout of water crisis in the camp since April 2014. Consequently, citizens have to use artesian wells to secure some water for their children although this water is polluted, but it is still the only choice for them. Otherwise, they have to walk for long distances to bring clean water. However, the second solution is risky because the snipers are spreading on the building overseeing the camp's streets.
In the same context, people are suffering from many difficulties in getting water out from the wells such as the continuous power cut and lack of fuel that is needed in running electric generators in order to run water pumps. These difficulties led the people to use manual pumps in order to overcome this problem during power cut for long time; it reaches 20 hours of power cut a day, and sometimes it is cut for days. In addition, mobile and telephone services are completely stopped.
The camp, which is located in the eastern part of Daraa and near from the direct confrontation points with the Syrian regime's site, was exposed to a systematic destruction processes and daily bombarding with different types of weapons. This led to the destruction of more than 80% of houses and infrastructure and transmigration of most of its residents to other places.
According to AGPS reporter, the camp is inhabited by mixture of Palestinian refugees and Syrians that have fled from Golan Heights, in addition to some citizens from the district. He pointed that, " the Camp, before the war , was inhabited by more than 40,000 people: 25,000 were Syrians and 17,000 were Palestinian refugees. Nowadays, just 265 families are still living in the camp."
