Al-Hasakah-SANA
For the fifth week in a row, the crime of cutting off water by the Turkish occupation and its terrorist mercenaries is still present with its repercussions on more than a million Syrian citizens in the city of Hasaka and its countryside as a result of cutting water from the Allouk station, which is the only and main source that supplies the people of the city of Hasakah and the villages and population centers along the Jarr line water.
The crime of cutting off water and depriving civilians of it in the extreme heat conditions that the region is going through is added to the track record of other crimes committed by the Turkish occupation, including killing, displacement, theft of agricultural crops and property and the destruction of infrastructure in dozens of occupied Syrian villages and towns.
The people of al-Hasakah and its countryside who depend on agriculture live daily suffering to secure little water and see that what the Turkish occupation is doing violates all international norms and violates the most basic rules of international humanitarian law when it takes water with its terrorist mercenaries as a pressure factor through which to blackmail the popular incubator of the Syrian state, depriving it of The simplest necessities of life and all this is taking place in front of the eyes of the world, the international community and international organizations that did not bother to condemn this crime.
Faced with this reality, the concerned authorities represented by the Directorate of Al-Hasakah Water Establishment and the Governorate, along with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the civil society are working to integrate their combined efforts and to secure and transfer drinking water to the people from alternative well stations that have been dug, in addition to backup wells and transporting water by tankers, which are filled under the supervision of the Foundation to ensure that Drinking capacity is also relied upon on tanks that have been installed in the city center amid vigorous efforts from the concerned authorities on a daily basis to increase the number of these tanks.
In the context of government measures, in light of the Turkish occupier’s continuing crime, the governorate and the concerned authorities have taken a number of emergency measures to secure drinking water for the people of the city of Al-Hasakah, such as increasing the number of tankers that transport water to the city center and implementing many initiatives aimed at alleviating the suffering of the people through the branch of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent The International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and NGOs.
In addition, the Turkish occupier and its mercenaries continue to commit violations that threaten humanitarian disasters in the region. In addition to their cutting off the water from the pumping station in Allouk in the occupied city of Ras al-Ain and controlling the drinking water of more than a million people, the Turkish regime stole a Syrian share of the Euphrates River water, which led to a decrease in the level. In the dam, all electric power generation turbines were stopped, all the way to the theft and sequestration of the waters of the tributaries of the Khabur River, which led to its complete drying out and all agricultural activities on the river bed stopped.