About 1.000.600 persons living in shelters in Damascus countryside
Governor of Damascus Countryside Alaa Ibrahim has declared that around 1.000.600 persons are living in temporary shelters outside Damascus.
He told the Damascus-based al-Watan newspaper that there is a plan to rehabilitate the shelters in Damascus countryside to offer best services to the persons living there.
“Around 1700 housing units in Adra and Harjalleh areas in Damascus countryside are being rehabilitated,” he stressed, adding that the rehabilitation process is being done in cooperation with concerned parties to offer services to the displaced persons in the shelters.
“Providing services to the displaced persons in the shelters is a priority for the governorate of Damascus countryside,” Mr. Ibrahim concluded.
Since 2011, a foreign-backed terror war has been waged on Syria targeting its people, army, civilization and infrastructures in accordance with the US-Zionist plot that aims to fragment the region and to have hegemony over its wealth.
About 360.000 foreign terrorists from 93 countries came to fight against the Syrians from April 2011 till January 2016, according to the German Firil Center for Studies. While media reports have confirmed that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, the U.S., France, Britain and Israel support – by all means-terrorist organizations operating in Syria.
Basma Qaddour