Used to Living With Mines
“For 5 years we have been living in fear of bombs. In the beginning we used to hide somewhere. These days mines are being dropped daily but we have to live and we are accustomed to that,” an elderly man said.
The day a RIA correspondent visited Aleppo was no exception. Mines detonated and improvised rockets landed near Hamdaniyah and Sleimaniyah killing 10 people.
In the central hospital, the picture doesn’t change day to day. There are traces of blood in the halls, tearful relatives and the smell of chlorine.
Just in the last few hours more than 15 wounded people were brought in. Two girls with minor shrapnel wounds were looking around not understanding what was going on and why were they being punished.
Food and Water Available
In connection with the appearance of media reports about the catastrophic situation in Aleppo with food and fresh water, the representative of militia groups offered to visit a few points of humanitarian aid distribution zones.
But the help is coming not only from the foreign organizations. Most of the products and basic necessities are delivered by the Syrian Red Crescent and government convoys.
Christians and Muslims Get Along
There is much talk about interfaith conflict in Syria. Being an Arab country before the war and coming here now, in a matter of hours one can be sure that there is no animosity and talk about it is fabricated and fictional.
In the district of Wilyal a car arrived to distribute humanitarian assistance at the local Orthodox community for Muslim families who escaped from the area of 1070 residential quarter in the southwest of Aleppo.
“We ran out of our houses, taking with us only our documents. The terrorists were firing indiscriminately and throwing mines at our homes. We now live in a Christian area and they help us with food and all other necessities,” citizen named Khalid told RIA correspondent.
Western Quarters of Aleppo Are Isolated
In early August, Syrian Army blocked the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo that were captured by the militants. For evacuation of civilians humanitarian corridors were opened. However, the terrorists refused to surrender and threatened to execute anyone who tried to escape to the west.
In the early days, after opening of humanitarian corridors, gunmen opened fire on civilians and shelled them with mortar fire. Then the road was blocked by an embankment and between buildings s large canvases are spread so that the snipers could not keep track of movements on the opposite side.
According to some reports, the captured by terrorist’s western Aleppo is home to more than 300 thousand civilians.
