Hasakah.. Imminent disaster as Turkish occupation, mercenaries continue to cut off water

By issuing a written statement to the public opinion, Al-Hasakah Canton Council appealed to the international community and human rights organizations to intervene quickly, and to take all efforts to pressure the Turkish state to pump water and stop the suffering of the people of Hasakah, in order to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.

29 June, 2021 11:03

/HASAKAH

The Allouk water station is of strategic importance for the city of Hasakah, Tel Tamer district, and the southern areas of Hasakah, such as Al-Hol, Al-Aresha, Al-Shaddadi and Markada, in addition to the camps within the region, such as Al-Aresha camp, Al-Hol, Washokani and Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) where the number of residents who depend on drinking water from Alouk station, which is under the control of the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries, exceeds one million people.

In this context, today, Al-Hasakah District Council issued a written statement to the public, calling on human rights organizations to intervene to re-pump the water of the Allouk station to the city and its surroundings, in order to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.

The statement included:

"The Turkish state, through its mercenaries, has resumed cutting off the water from the Allouk station to the city of Hasaka and its countryside from Tel Tamer area, this policy that it has pursued since the occupation of the city of Ras al-Ain.

Cutting off the water of Alouk station to the city of Hasakah and its surroundings is a crime against humanity, as this cut comes with the advent of summer and rising temperatures, when we desperately need water, and the lack of water increases the risks of children’s poisoning cases throughout the region and in the camps for the displaced in particular.

This action is a stigma on the forehead of international institutions and organizations that claim to protect human rights and turn a blind eye to it.

Their silence also makes them accomplices in the tragedies suffered by innocent civilians.

We appeal to the international community and human rights organizations to intervene immediately and take all efforts to pressure the Turkish state to re-pump the water and stop the suffering of the people of al-Hasakah, in order to avoid a real humanitarian catastrophe threatening more than a million and a half people with thirst.

J.O

ANHA