Mothers participated in resistance of Sheikh Maksoud to support fighters

ARSHIN NAJJAR-AHMED RASHID/ALEPPO

While the mercenaries continued to launch attacks from time to time on Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood in Aleppo over the past years with various types of weapons, there was resistance of another type besides the resistance fighters of People and Women Protection Units (YPG, YPJ) by preparing food in the kitchen allocated to the fighters.

In the kitchen, there are mothers who go around preparing food around the clock, doing what they can to feed the fighters on the fronts despite the brutality of the shelling of the neighborhood.

Women gathered every day before dawn and worked until late at night to serve the best foods and send them to the fronts in three batches in the morning, afternoon and evening.

4 years and continue to provide support

Among the women who have volunteered in the Kitchen whose name is Latifa and Saltana who have been providing support for four to the fighters, and still work despite their old age.

Mother Latifa Abdo, 53, said: "I consider my work here as a mother's care for her children and a duty for everyone living in the neighborhood. As mothers, we chose to support our children on the fronts and provide them with meals."

The mercenaries targeted the kitchen

The mercenaries targeted the kitchen and mother Latifa said "The kitchen was targeted also, one day a shell fell on the kitchen and one of the volunteers was hit a minor injury, so we allocated several sites to prepare the food in one street. In case of danger, we would move to another kitchen."

Stocking up food in winter for fighters

In addition to preparing the food, the mother's work was Latifa and Sultana preparing and storing the food to keep it in summer and winter of all kinds of "molasses, jams, pickles, vegetables, cheese, and olive."

Sultana Hassan, 51-year-old mother, is one of the women volunteers in preparing the food, and about the mechanism of her work in the kitchen, she said, "Despite attacks I did not leave the neighborhood, we worked to support the fronts of our military forces and we never hesitated. We were drawing strength from our children who were resisting on the fronts against the mercenaries we did nothing mentionable before the resistance that was shown by our children."

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ANHA