In the last 24 hours, Syria's Eastern Ghouta has been under constant bombardment by the Syrian Regime killing over one hundred civilians. Twenty of them being children. The Ghouta has been under bomb threats for the past five years due to ISIS loseing footing in the suburb. The Syrian government is attempting to wipe out the last of ISIS rebel controlled areas with these bombings, but at a cost. It has been the largest single death day in the Ghouta in the past three years after a chemical bombing in 2015. Many hospitals and facilities were destroyed leaving people scrammbling looking for aid.
The Eastern Ghouta in Syria has been in need of humanitarian aid for a long time. All 400,000 citizens still living there have been bracing for the next bomb strike which will likely leave most of the city in rubble. A convoy was sent in to relieve some citizens with medical aid and food supplies. However, many say the government is not doing enough to help out their citizens from the bombings not targeted at them.
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Questions:
1. If you were working in the Syrian government, would you try and do more to help the citizens in the Ghota who have been affected by the constant bombings?
2. If you had the chance to leave the city, would you even though you would not see any of your possessions ever again?
Answers:
1. Certainly yes I would try and do more to liberate the citizens who have nothing to do with ISIS. It almost seems unfair how the people live in constant fear of the government as they try to eradicate a threat that most people have nothing to do with. At the very least, I would make sure to send supplies and medical personel to help the people.
2. It would be tough. Leaving everything behind in a city you know is going to be destroyed by more and more bombs. But possessions are just things that can easily be replaced. The only thing that can't be replaced is your life. That is why I would definetly leave the city if I had the chance. Unfortunatly, most people will not get this oppritunity in the years coming.
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Well done Niall!
If I was working in the Syrian goveernment, I would definitely try and do more to help the citizens in the Ghota who have been affected by the constant bombings. If I had the chance to leave the city I would, because I would go to a safer place than somewhere that is under constant bombardment. Most possessions could easily be replaced.
You are right! Almost all of people possessions could be replaced somewhere. Which is why it is so baffling when people die or risk their lives for objects that only hold value to themselves. Even if you couldn't replace your valuables, you should be grateful to make it out of the terrible city with your life and, if you're lucky, your family.
1. I would try to relocate them and get them out of harm's way, really. Getting them out of the way of bombings should be a priority. I would then have supplies sent to them like food and medical aid.
2. I would want to leave the city, even if I had to leave behind my possessions. I would want to still carry as much as I could, and leaving would be very hard, but in the end things don't really matter as long as I'm with my friends and family.
It would be very hard to leave behind everything. All that matters in your own life as well as the lives of your friends and family. Relocating the civilians should be the number oine priority for the government. However, this isn't the case which is very sad for everyone who is affected by all of the bombings that have nothing to do them.
I would try to help the people in my country as much as possible or get them to safety. I would flee the city as soon as I had the chance if my family would go with me because ultimately family is most important.
You are absolutly right! Family is the most important thing in this situation. I wouldn't see a reason they would oppose leaving the city if there are better oppritunites for living elsewhere but you never know. Hopefully there are better situations in the surrounding cities in Syria or else running would only create more problems.
I would do everything I could to help them. inoccents shouldn't be targeted just because they want change nor for any reason.
Well it depends. If I could leave but it meant that another family had to be left behind and they are struggling more than i am then i would stay behind. if not then i would go.
I would definitely try to help the citizens that are not involved with ISIS. They are being attacked in their own homes just just becasue they happen to live where they do, they should not suffer. I would send medical supplies and help out in any way I could.
It is true that it is not fair to the people who live there being punished just because they were born in Syria. I think the government understands that not all of the people are bad people but they view the threat of ISIS as more important. It sucks that the government doesn't do much in seeing that the innocent are compensated.
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