MEPs Visit Displaced Families at Temporary Sheltering Center in Mazzeh, Wounded Soldiers at Hamish Hospital

DAMASCUS, (ST)-The visiting European Parliament delegation, led by Vice-President for the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament Javier Couso, on Saturday visited displaced families at a temporary sheltering center in Mazzeh area in Damascus where members of the delegation were briefed on the services provided by the Syrian government to people displaced by terrorism.

 The displaced families talked to the delegation’s members about their suffering before they fled the atrocities of the terrorists in their areas. They urged the delegation to tell their peoples the truth about what is going on in Syria.

On their part, members of delegation stressed that they will be the voice of these displaced families at the European parliament.

In a statement to SANA, member of the European Parliament Yana Tom said “visiting this center has made the delegation know about the situation of the families which fled terrorism and about the services provided to them by the Syrian state.”

Sanctions are another type of war

On the European economic sanctions, Tom said she was against all kinds of sanctions because they are “another type of war”. She asserted that she will spare no effort as to contribute to lifting the unfair sanctions on Syria because they affect they Syrian people in the first place.

Tom pointed out that she didn’t believed the story presented in the western media about Syria events and that she came here to know the truth.

On his part, Ismael Khallouf, the official in charge of supervising temporary sheltering centers in Damascus, spoke to the delegation about the health, food and psychological support services provided to the displaced families at the centers.

Earlier, the delegation visited wounded Syrian Army personnel at Martyr Ahmad Hamish Hospital in Damascus and toured the hospital’s departments, including the prosthetic services.

Couso asks why EU is doing harm to the people who are fighting terrorism

The delegation was able to get an idea about the sort of suffering the Syrian people are going through and about the steadfastness of the Syrian army in its war against terrorism, Couso told SANA reporter.

He added that the delegation also has got an idea of how badly the economic sanctions affected the health services in Syria, wondering why the European Union is doing harm to the people who are fighting terrorism.

Hamda Mustafa