People in this area, which were blocked in the outside world, adopted a survival strategy. Cut the trees, heated the house, and one of them was one of them.
Seed
In the 2023 report, the NGO PAX pointed out: “Because of the fire caused by the bombing campaign and the lack of water, the area lost about 80 %of the tree.”
According to the organization, the loss of vegetation and green space combined with the expansion of the region built during the war is already related to the increase of 5 ° C at 2 ° C in Damascus and Aleppo.
Issa Mustafa Al-Masri leases the conspiracy of this land and lives with his family. For seven years since 2012, they endured the bombing of the regime and rode a shelter in the basement of the building, just hundreds of meters away from the field.
“There was a raid. We couldn’t reach our land.” His wife Amira added: The family once owned 200, and was destroyed in the war anywhere.
In DOUMA, life resumed in the ruins. Residents have ghosts because of deadly attacks, especially chemical attacks. When we head southwest, a group of men gather at the entrance of the barren fields. Soon, seeds will be sprayed for summer crops.
turmoil
Local farmer Mohammad Fatourm said, “The Ghouta region was once named after the rich water and rivers of water and rivers.”
Barada River, one of the main waterways in the region, is now largely contaminated with waste and sewage, according to residents and experts. To avoid the use of the contaminated water, farmers dug well. If the fuel is available, the diesel drive pump draws the water to the surface.
Syria’s 10 -year conflict has devastated the natural landscape, according to the independent environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstarin. “Almost some of the environment have not avoided the negative impact of hostility.
Schwartzstein, a researcher at Wilson Center Think Tank in the United States, added that water and air pollution deteriorated due to poor governance and the survival strategy of the population.
“For example, agriculture is suffering from neglected and continuous agricultural practices that many Syrians had to be adopted during the war as they were obsessed with violence.”
Harvest
It is a waste of waste, and it is out of the field. Despite the winter season, only the flow of water flows. Mohammad Fatourm, surrounded by other farmers, said, “The main Suwon in the beat was cut off during the war.”
As air strikes and bombings deepened, access to farmland was reduced. “During the war, we began to use small plots to grow vegetables, wheat, barley and other crops to spend every day.
However, due to the constant bombing, the crops did not grow, leading to the deaths of many civilians, including children who had a wide hunger and cold and hunger.
To arrive at the eastern beating from the west, you must return to the highway and drive more landscapes. The field has increased about a few miles near Daraya, the base of the opposition party.
Agricultural workers sit under the temporary shelter to classify rupture. Omar Abu Hawa, the landowner, inherited the farm from the family and inherited the farms grown for several generations. As a child, a 50 -year -old boy walks under the fruit tree.
Move
“You couldn’t even see the sun,” he once ran with his farm now pointing to the Barren road. “The regime soldiers cut the trees and sold them to the residents.”
He moved north before returning in 2018 after the peace agreement between the rebel group and the Assad regime, leaving his hometown when the inter -Korean war broke out. “When we came back, nothing would grow because of chemical attacks. It was very difficult.”
Professor Miasar Alhassan of Liz University is an aviation and soil pollution specialist. He explains that there are few studies on the effects of the environment of chemical weapons.
“The regime has prevented most of the attempts to carry out such research, manipulate the field, and delay professional access for a long time. It also applies to new Russian ammunition tested in Syria, and its nature is still unknown.” Ecologicalist. The most urgent concern is the pollution of heavy metals.
When Omar Abu Hawa returned in 2019, he was a mines by the engineer. “Now, I want to re -employ the vineyard. We had before,” he said.
cultivate
Daraya was once famous as a vineyard and was nicknamed the “City of Blood Dye Grape” during the revolution. In August 2012, more than 700 people were killed in this opposition base due to the cruel attack by the Assad’s army.
Hussam Al Aham, a member of Daraya’s local governments, said, “There was a vast agricultural land in the western part of Daraya.
For many experts, the environment ignored before the war criticizes one of the strategic goals of the regime during the dispute.
“It will take at least one century to restore our environment.” The authorities must assign resources to essential services such as electricity, water and occupational opportunities while supporting all Governor’s agricultural, re -reorganization and waste management without discrimination. This approach will increase unity and encourage peaceful coexistence. “
Experts argue that nothing will happen without international support and systematic change in both peace and environment. In DOUMA and DARAYA, farmers are trying to restore their land in desolation, and continuous peace hopes to help children grow from bombs and massacre.
This author
Amélie David is a freelancer journalist in Lebanon, who talks about environmental and climate change stories. This article was published through the Ecological Scholar Writer Fund. We ask our readers to donate and ask some authors to pay 250 pounds of work. please Donate now. You can learn more about the fund and create an application on our website.
