Syrian News - Northeast Syria
Field teams from the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management arrived in Al-Hasakah this morning to start a large-scale response to rescue families trapped by floods and floods.
Syrian News learned that the initial operations are scheduled to be concentrated in the neighborhoods of (Ghuwayran, Meridian, Al-Lailiya, and Nashwa) in the city of Al-Hasakah on the side of the Al-Khabur River, in addition to all areas that were flooded, in order to rescue the stranded people and secure safe evacuation routes for civilians amid the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in those neighborhoods.
These field movements aim to evacuate those stranded and provide urgent relief, amid hopes of reducing the severity of human and material losses in the coming hours.
The Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management, Raed Al-Saleh, confirmed on his account on the (X) platform that work is being urgently underway to equip teams and mechanisms and expand the scope of the response, to ensure rapid intervention in the most affected areas in the city of Al-Hasakah, while continuing coordination with UN and international organizations to support the affected people and enhance humanitarian efforts.
For his part, the head of the field operations department at the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, Yousef Ezzou, said in a press statement that the Tal Hamis area witnessed the submergence of more than 400 houses as a result of the recent floods, which necessitated the intervention of the Syrian Civil Defense teams to reduce the damage and prevent the floods from spreading to other areas.
Teams are working to remove earthen berms and open water passages to drain water, he said, in addition to evacuating civilians from the affected villages to safer areas, in light of the lack of shelters in the area so far.
The Civil Defense and Emergency Response teams continue to provide basic necessities such as mattresses, water, food and medicines, in addition to conducting census operations for the affected families and houses and assessing their needs, Ezzo added.
The ministry is working in high-level coordination with international organisations, including the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), as well as Save the Children, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, he said, with the aim of strengthening the humanitarian response and ensuring that support reaches those affected in al-Hasakeh province.
At the field level, teams from the Arab Red Crescent branch and the Al-Yamamah Charitable Foundation in Al-Hasakah rushed to the rescue of families affected by the flooding of the Khabur River and the floods formed by the heavy rains.
According to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Branch, Khader Mutlaq Al-Zaher, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent teams took the initiative to evacuate a number of families from the Meridian neighborhood in the city of Al-Hasakah to safer areas, with the return of the flooding of the Khabur River and the entry of water into the homes of residents in the neighborhoods of Meridian, Nashwa and Gweran.
Al-Zaher explained to "Syrian News" that the volunteers equipped a shelter center in the school of the Meridian neighborhood with the necessary mattresses and blankets, to receive families whose houses were damaged, and ambulance teams were present to intervene in any emergency situation, as part of an ongoing humanitarian response with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Al-Zaher said that the Syrian Arab Red Crescent teams responded in parallel to the call of families affected by the floods and floods in the Jamaya neighborhood and other residential communities in the city of Qamishli, north of Al-Hasakah, by evacuating a number of families to safer areas, treating two cases and assessing the humanitarian needs of those affected in light of the continuation of rainstorms, the formation of floods and the rise in the levels of rivers and valleys.
In turn, the Syria Al-Yamamah Charitable Foundation provided urgent aid, blankets and lighting devices to the families who were displaced from the Meridian neighborhood to the temporary shelter center that was set up and equipped in the neighborhood's school. According to the chairman of the foundation's board of trustees, Mohammed Saeed al-Khader.
Al-Khader stressed that Al-Yamamah Foundation's response was made after co-ordinating with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent branch in Hasakah, which assisted in the evacuation operations and provided mattresses and shelter assistance to displaced families, whose numbers are still increasing.
Al-Khader said that the foundation's teams are assessing the situation to make way for an urgent response from several other associations and civil institutions, explaining that the teams are assessing the situation in several other areas in the governorate, including the Hamis, Al-Malikiyah and Al-Arisha blocs, to assess the damages before carrying out relief operations.
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