Syrian children between the daily suffering and eternal death

By: Ahmad Sabieh
March 20

IDLIB - Humanity has not been able to turn children of Syria away from the battlefield. Eight years after the war in Syria, children remain the most negatively affected group.
The year 2018 is the worst year for them. They suffer from so hard pressure. Many of them try to hurt themselves, and suicide because of the suffering they experienced during the war and the circumstances that haunt them in their homes.
Syrian children became first victims of the war that turned their lives into misery and hell. Some of them are lost, others are  homeless and  others leave their schools in order to work to secure their livelihood and the needs of their families.
The war never knows age differences. Moreover, bullets do not distinguish between either youngs or elders. They penetrate the gut and tear organs into ashes. It is the adult game paid on the expensive of innocent children. All Syrian children rights are violated from all sides, and their tragedy is exploited politically and military. By their very nature, children are fragile beings who are easy to be exploited.
Many of them have passed combat lines to take school exams, and they have insisted on learning even if it is in destroyed schools or shelters under cellars.
Sobhi, who does not exceed ten years, a child who lives in Syria tells us his tragic story.
Subhi tells us that he was abandoned from Aleppo in late 2014 to Idlib and then settled in the town of Kafarsejna in the southern countryside of Idlib, which became their refuge under the continuation of this revolution.
He said that his father after his departure from Aleppo mentally disturbed, this prompted my mother to leave him and marry another man and leave us and him.
After my father's disability and my mother's marriage from another man from the village of Kafarsejna, I resorted to working with the people as an olive collector and other hard work.
My mother can not come to visit us so my younger brothers and I decided to go to her and stay with her for rest. During the visit, I was playing with her sons in law. I was so excited. Suddenly, the child put a gun toward me. (The child may have been watching combat films on social media sites and lived in an age where the light and heavy weapons was widespread). The bullet came to hit my left foot, then I fell to the ground with unconsciousness. I was cured to the hospital by the people of the avenue. After the operation, I woke up and looked at my feet and did not find it. In that moment I was shocked, and my eyes began to cry.
Sobhi noted that he wants to learn and go to school, but his position doesn't  allowed him because he has become amputated.

The suffering did not stop at Sobhil. The 12 year child Mohammed Al-Hallak from Kafarsejana left the education and went into daily hard work in order to secure the livelihood of his house from food, drink and other needs.
This child turned unwillingly to be a smith, despite the difficulty and hardness of this job.
Mohammad says "This job does not know the cold of winter or the summer heat. I have been working as a smith for three years. Mohammed added that the profession includes a lot of trouble and brings many diseases, explaining that the day begins at 8 am and continues according to the demand of the shop, which may extend the work for 12 hours, and he receives a symbolic weekly salary which is equivalent to 4000 Syrian pounds.
In conclusion, this is the war that destroys, disperses and destroys a whole generation; In addition to thousands of generations that we are trying to build on our blood-stained hands, which show the suffering of aging and tragedy. This is the war that turn off the bright candles that had to lead the most important to change their future lives , kill their dreams and keep their breath, and make them always live under the shadow of imagination.
It is reasonable to assume that this huge loss of generations left behind by the war in Syria can not be surrendered, because logic is warning the loss of the next generations.
All parties are responsible, and if we don't keep the children safe today, unfortunately they will be threatened with loss and murder.