Al-Hasakah-SANA
Today, the people of Al-Hasakah city organized a vigil in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross, denouncing the violations of the Turkish occupier, especially the crime of cutting off drinking water for one million citizens in the city of Al-Hasakah and its western countryside for more than a month.
The participants raised banners denouncing the international silence regarding the crime committed by the Turkish occupier against humanity, and the people handed over to the representative of the International Committee a statement containing a letter of protest expressing the condemnation of the people of Al-Hasakah Governorate and their denunciation of the described war crime committed by the Turkish occupier and its mercenaries for stopping the operation of the Alouk water station in the countryside of Ras city Al-Ain occupied governorate
For the twenty-fifth time in a row since it occupied lands in the governorate, the most recent of which is the continuation of water cuts for the thirty-fourth day to date.
The statement stated, "The people of the province confirm that this heinous and inhuman crime threatens the lives of more than a million Syrian citizens who are present in the city of Hasakah, Tal Tamr district, and the western countryside, where they have no source of drinking water except what is pumped from the Alouk station," explaining that "the Turkish regime deliberately fights against The Syrian people are in the most basic necessities of life and prevent the flow of drinking water under harsh climatic conditions and the spread of Covid 19 disease directly threatens the lives of citizens, as some intestinal and skin diseases began to appear and spread as a result of the use of surface well water for drinking and other uses in addition to the great suffering that burdened the people to secure Drinking water on a daily basis.
In their statement, the people of Al-Hasakah Governorate called on international organizations and UN bodies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross mission working in the governorate, to immediately intervene and assume its humanitarian and moral responsibilities in confronting this crime and to work with those needed to find a sustainable solution to continue pumping water from the Allouk station and not stop it and allow the workers of the Water Corporation to enter the The station and its operation and non-interference in its affairs in the future from any party, and the condemnation of the crime of cutting off water committed by the Turkish occupier and its tools, which amounts to a war crime.
The Mufti of Hasaka, Sheikh Abdul Hamid Al-Kandah, said in a statement to SANA: “Cutting the water to the people of the city is a heinous crime, and it is rejected by international and international laws. Therefore, the Turkish occupier must be held accountable for this crime committed against a million citizens who have no guilt except that they rely on this station as the only source.” for drinking water.”
For his part, the Archbishop of Al-Jazeera and the Euphrates, the Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Maurice Amseeh, said: “The people of Al-Hasakah have been suffering for about 35 days as a result of the crime of the Turkish occupier who cut off water from them, and the international community must assume its responsibilities,” noting that “today’s pause is to deliver a message of condemnation and condemnation of the occupier’s violations.” Turkey and demand that those who cut off the water be held accountable as a war criminal.”
In the name of humanity, Amseeh called on all humanitarian organizations, states and bodies to intervene and stop this crime against the people of Al-Hasakah.
In turn, the Secretary of the Council of Elders and Notables of the Syrian Tribes and Clans, Dr. Ahmed Al-Drees, indicated that today’s pause “came to awaken the conscience of the international community towards a described war crime committed by the Turkish occupier against one million citizens in Al-Hasakah and to deliver a message that this issue will turn into the Security Council platform to solve the problem and oblige the Turkish occupier Implementing the provisions of international law that prohibit and criminalize the use of water in conflicts and cut off water to a million thirsty citizens.”
Head of the Bar Association branch, Abdul Aziz Gawish, said that “the people of al-Hasakah governorate are transmitting today a message to international organizations, UN bodies and the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation to protest the crime of cutting off water, which comes within the framework of the war led by the United States, the Turkish regime, Western countries and the Zionist entity against the Syrian people.”
The Dean of the College of Agriculture, Dr. Jamal Al-Abdullah, indicated that organizing the vigil came to express the people’s ongoing suffering as a result of cutting off water and the consequent spread of intestinal and skin diseases among the people as a result of the use of surface wells water for drinking and other uses, and the interruption coincided with this hot weather and the spread of Corona disease.
Al-Hasakah Governorate Council Chairman Ahmed Awaid Al-Saeed pointed out that today's stand aims to deliver a message to the international community about the practices of the Turkish occupier, which deprives the people of the only source of water.
