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The children of Syria in general and Aleppo in particular have not been spared regarding the impacts of the bloody brutal war which took from them their innocence and deprived them from their simplest rights; political and military tragedies have faced them in a conditions of hunger, deprivation and forcing displacement which forced many of them to be displaced in their own homeland.
“Fatimah” is that little girl who is 2 years old where she is meant to be inside the storm in a war which she has no fault to do with. This war causes bitterness and burdens her mother “Amina” who is a displaced in Idlib. In our first visit to her after she arrived three days earlier, she revealed to us her clear deep grieve as tears streamed from her eyes, she said:” when regime forces and pro militias and allies were pushing closer, being backed by preceded intensive air strikes by warplanes, so that countless missiles and shells targeted us without any mercy where one of them hit my husband who turned into carnages in front of our destroyed house; I was shocked for being unable to collect my husband carnages in order to bury him in Aleppo city.. he had refused to abandon the beloved city Aleppo and repeated this saying:” the earth of Aleppo remains tender even if it hit us and it is better than any kind of stability outside Aleppo”.
With slow steps Fatimah who the orphanhood and deprivation seemed so clear on her face, came closer to her mother seeking her tendency and warmth as bitterness overwhelmed their lives. “I am doubled heartbroken.. Two disasters befall me, parting my husband and abandoning the land of Aleppo most dear to me.. ah how much my heart is filled with grieve. It is a brutal bloody war that forced us the women and children to pay the price for it expensively”, the mother proceeded.
The mother pulled her daughter Fatimah close to her, with simple smile drawn on her lips she kissed her daughter, then she pulled out her breast to feed her hungry daughter, but pointlessly for the mother has no milk in her breast but for few drops the thing made the child quite for a while, even her mother’s milk she is derived from unfortunately.
Amina did not know that deep grieve can deprive her little girl from her simplest right to live on her mother’s milk.
Then she continued saying:” it has been 6 years for this bloody war, it made me 10 years older forcing me to bear burdens beyond my tolerance. I bided farewell to Aleppo from which I was forced to leave in dire humanitarian circumstances. There are thousands children like my daughter who are affected by war with memories of death and refuging which will not be easily erased. I t is a long journey of blood, ruins and killing depriving my infant from her father becoming an orphan”.
Here the question always arises: For how long will the children in Syria bleed and scream, with no response at all?
By Bayan Alahmad
Translated by Sabah Najem
Syrian Press Center
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