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By God, no one can live like us
Here, where it never occurs to anyone
that a fellow human being
might live like this,
by accident, we found a dark cellar where dozens of Homsi families are living.
Most of them are children and women.
Here, where the minimum basics of life are not available,
the place bacame overcrowded with people, so they divided the rooms into smaller ones.
There is no heating, no electricity and no water here.
These families are living a life which is similar to that of the dead
“Hasn't he had enough of us? Hasn't he had enough of our blood yet?”
Our young men are gone, our children are gone, everyone is gone. What else is left?
Those are children. Look at them.
These families aren’t only suffering from bad living circumstances.
The greatest adversity is that dozens of children became permanently disabled.
Abdo, Nour, Ferdos, Hasna and many others suffer from these problems.
Abdo is suffering from shuddering in his mouth, hand and left foot. It started after a rocket from a warplane landed, and he barely speaks now.
what’s your name?
Abdo..Abdo!!
Maybe no one can imagine the tragedy these Homsi families in Al Qusair are living.
Some children are suffering from shuddering, madness and scabies.
Nour is another shelling victim.
She’s became squint after a rocket from a warplane landed near their house.
Everyday Nour says to her mother:
Mom..Mom! Bring my eyes back the way they were!
As for Ferdos and her family, they have a different story with suffering.
This child was infected with scabies in her left foot.
The cause of scabies is the lack of all means of personal hygiene.
The residents can’t even fetch water out of fear from the sniper.
And with all these calamities,
shelling with missiles and rockets hasn’t stopped
Abdo, Nour and dozens of other children
are inflicted with permanent disabilities
And they are still living inappropriate life conditions.
They are still living in cellars that lack the minimum of the basics of life.
They are still waiting for someone to give them a helping hand.
From one of the cellars in Homs.
Hadi Al Abdullah – Al Arabiy�