Daraa Sees New Wave of Displacement After Sudden Bombardment on its Western Countryside

 Activists said that more than 25 rockets and shells fell on residential neighborhoods and the popular market in the city. (Photo: AFP)
Activists said that more than 25 rockets and shells fell on residential neighborhoods and the popular market in the city. (Photo: AFP)
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Daraa Sees New Wave of Displacement After Sudden Bombardment on its Western Countryside

 Activists said that more than 25 rockets and shells fell on residential neighborhoods and the popular market in the city. (Photo: AFP)
Activists said that more than 25 rockets and shells fell on residential neighborhoods and the popular market in the city. (Photo: AFP)

Twenty-two persons will be displaced from Southern Syria to the North under the supervision of the Fifth Division and the Russian military police, after the city of Tafas in the western countryside of Daraa was targeted early on Thursday with rockets and missiles by the forces of the Fourth Division, which are stationed in a building adjacent to the city and Tal al-Jumuh.

Buses arrived at the old customs in Daraa al-Balad on Thursday afternoon to transport wanted persons and families wishing to be displaced, with the insistence of Muhammad al-Masalma, nicknamed “Hafu” and Moaied Harfoush not to leave the area.

The two men had pledged before the city’s clans to leave the region and accept displacement, which paved the way for an agreement with the Russian side and the Security Committee. But they suddenly went back on their decision, which led to the resumption of military actions.

Activists said that more than 25 rockets and shells fell on residential neighborhoods and the popular market in the city in the early hours of the morning, causing three deaths and 10 injuries among civilians.

Shells also fell in the vicinity of a school in the city of Tafas, while students were attending summer courses. A state of panic and terror prevailed over the educational facility, which closed immediately.

Meanwhile, a number of Syrian regime forces were killed or wounded on Thursday morning in an attack on a military vehicle carrying food for the soldiers on the road between Sheikh Miskeen and Nawa in the western countryside of Daraa.

Syrian regime forces raided some houses in the city of Sheikh Miskeen and arrested around ten people on charges of committing acts against the Syrian state.

Activists expected that military actions would move to the areas of the western countryside of Daraa, especially Tafas, Muzayrib and Yaduda, especially with the arrival of military reinforcements over the past few days.



Food Shortages Bring Hunger Pains to Displaced Families in Central Gaza

16 November 2024, Palestinian Territories, Khan Younis: Palestinians line up to receive a meal from the World Food Program and The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Khan Younis. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa
16 November 2024, Palestinian Territories, Khan Younis: Palestinians line up to receive a meal from the World Food Program and The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Khan Younis. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa
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Food Shortages Bring Hunger Pains to Displaced Families in Central Gaza

16 November 2024, Palestinian Territories, Khan Younis: Palestinians line up to receive a meal from the World Food Program and The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Khan Younis. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa
16 November 2024, Palestinian Territories, Khan Younis: Palestinians line up to receive a meal from the World Food Program and The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Khan Younis. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa

A shortage in flour and the closure of a main bakery in central Gaza have exacerbated an already dire humanitarian situation, as Palestinian families struggle to obtain enough food.
A crowd of people waited dejectedly in the cold outside the shuttered Zadna Bakery in Deir al-Balah on Monday.
Among them was Umm Shadi, a displaced woman from Gaza City, who told The Associated Press that there was no bread left due to the lack of flour — a bag of which costs as much as 400 shekels ($107) in the market, she said, if any can be found.
“Who can buy a bag of flour for 400 shekels?” she asked.
Nora Muhanna, another woman displaced from Gaza City, said she was leaving empty-handed after waiting five or six hours for a bag of bread for her kids.
“From the beginning, there are no goods, and even if they are available, there is no money,” she said.
Almost all of Gaza's roughly 2.3 million people now rely on international aid for survival, and doctors and aid groups say malnutrition is rampant. Food security experts say famine may already be underway in hard-hit north Gaza. Aid groups accuse the Israeli military of hindering and even blocking shipments in Gaza.
Meanwhile, dozens lined up in Deir al-Balah to get their share of lentil soup and some bread at a makeshift charity kitchen.
Refat Abed, a displaced man from Gaza City, no longer knows how he can afford food.
“Where can I get money?” he asked. “Do I beg? If it were not for God and charity, my children and I would go hungry".