Afrin IDPs protest siege...Russian forces promise to open way for humanitarian cases

Hundreds of Afrin IDPs, in addition to doctors, nurses, members of the Kurdish Red Crescent, and health workers gathered in the village of Al-Washia, to demonstrate against the practices of the Syrian government through its unjust siege on al-Shahba canton and preventing the entry of medicines and transferring patients to Aleppo hospitals.

The demonstrators carried placards in Arabic and Russian, "Every day Syrian children are in the cycle of death by shooting them or preventing them from accessing medicine. Let the children live in peace.” After that, the demonstrators headed to the Russian base in the village of Al-Washia, while chanting slogans calling for lifting the siege of Al-Shahba canton.

When the demonstrators arrived at the Russian base, they stopped a minute of silence, after which a delegation composed of three people from the health field, (Hevin Hussein - Muhammad Nour Shabab, the co-chair of the Health Authority in Afrin region, and the administration of Afrin Hospital, Dr. Othman Sheikh Issa), and handed them medical reports for four citizens. They lost their lives, including three children, and an hour-long discussion with Russian officers at the Russian base.

While the delegation was in the Russian base, it issued a statement on behalf of the Health Authority, which was read in both Arabic and Kurdish by members of the Health Authority, Talaat and Bangin Jergo.

The text of the statement read: "Yesterday, in occupied Afrin and they as well as the whole world, saw how the tombs of the martyrs were dug up without taking into account their values or sanctities>

As for the IDPs Afrin and in the state of semi-siege areas of al-Shahba, which has been increasing day by day for more than three years, the aforementioned restraint of death and restrictions is still chasing them and by various means.

As if the pain of occupation and forcibly displacement were not enough to complete those wounds more and more through restrictions and siege and bargaining with them over their most basic rights.

In the face of all this, volcanoes of raising questions. Will the aforementioned restrictive measures make the future of the Syrian-Syrian national dialogue in the wind? How will these actions be reflected on concepts and statements such as (extending the hand for dialogue), (the embrace of the homeland), (national belonging) and (national cohesion), or will they, on the contrary, lead to the consolidation of concepts of hatred and deepening of the sense of marginalization?