Rural Damascus - SANA
Gradually the features of life are returning to Basima village in Wadi Barada in the Damascus countryside, with the long-awaited return of about 20 families who started shaking off the dust and destroying terrorism from their homes after preparing the infrastructure and basic services from the concerned authorities.
Despite the apparent fatigue of his features, Mazen Rifai Abu Hassan, who returned to Basimah at the beginning of the month of Ramadan, continues the cleaning and deportation work in his home with great vigor and tells the delegate of Sana to return to my house a dream that has not left me for years, and today it has become a reality and I have hope that all the people will return in less than a year.
Mukhtar Bassima Mustafa Nasrallah, who was one of the first to return and accomplished a large part of his house, in turn, explains that the cleaning of homes and streets is proceeding with full support by the governorate by securing the necessary mechanisms.
This moment I have been waiting for years with these words, Ihsan Mohiuddin Al-Qadri summarizes his happiness to return, indicating that he is working to rehabilitate his house and relocate the destruction and rubble, and he will do everything he can with the participation of the people to make the village better in terms of tourism, economics and agriculture.
While Hossam Emad states that removing the rubble and rehabilitating homes is taking place at an accelerated pace and with cooperation in housing, Ali Ahmed Ramadan pointed out that he had made great strides in rehabilitating his house, calling for the necessity to expedite the provision of requirements for the rehabilitation of all the requirements of the village so that people could return quickly.
On the 13th of last April, the people of Basimah began to return to their homes that were damaged by terrorism to begin rehabilitating and replant their lands, after the Damascus Countryside Governorate, in coordination with the local council, completed the completion of the infrastructure works, including water, sanitation, and electricity, and securing them to enable the people to return and follow up on the work. Removing the rubble resulting from restoring houses and opening roads.
The head of the local council in Jadidat al-Wadi, Taysir Parallel, revealed the return of about twenty families, and the number has increased since the beginning of the month of Ramadan, pointing out that the infrastructure of water, electricity and sanitation was completed before the entry of the people, and they in turn are following the completion of the extensions to their homes and other services will be completed later in parallel with their return.
In January 2017, the Syrian Arab Army announced the return of security and stability to the towns and villages of Wadi Barada in the western countryside of Damascus, after a series of successful military operations.
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