Syria, a displaced country.
No need to ask. Upon entering the small office, become home for six people, the wife of Ahmad Omar Moadamani takes the stove and boiled water to make coffee. "We've been here four years. What was to be a temporary solution has become our home, what can we do? We do not have money to rent a house or to emigrate to Europe, as some have done relatives this summer, here we stay until the war is over, "admits the father of 45, who combines peddling fruit volunteer work in pro-government militias to survive.
The Moadamani come from Daraya, the city located in the rural outskirts of Damascus, which was bombed by government troops at the dawn of the Syrian "revolution" of April 2011. This family of internally displaced persons is part of the 172 civilians who occupy a school renamed 'new reception center' Jdeidet Artouz, a town controlled by the Syrian government located 15 kilometers south of Damascus. This town on the outskirts of the capital has seen its population multiplied tenfold since late 2012, reaching 300,000.
I stay in Syria, I feel good here however. People who go to Europe seeking a better life
Ahmad Omar Moadamani
Syrian internal displaced person. He works as a fruit vendor and volunteer brigade defense
Ahmad's wife takes a second to not take a kettle and a small stove for tea welcome to visit while the oldest daughter prepares to go to school. The smallest stays with the mother. His house no longer exists because of the fighting and shelling. They left Daraya as the first protests against the regime led to open fighting, and now the four members of the family occupy one of the old offices of the school. They left with nothing four years ago, and have lost everything.
A new war front, a new humanitarian crisis
Each military front opened in Syria opened a humanitarian crisis. The world today faces the border with Turkey, where 100,000 people are trapped near the town of Azaz, while the European Union and Ankara activate these weeks its controversial refugee repatriation plan. "They try to escape air strikes and the escalation of ground fighting in the area of Aleppo, are trapped between the Turkish border and the front line" recently denounced in a statement the international president of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Joanne Liu.
In southern Syria, the scene is similar, with at least 50,000 people living in the open after fleeing their homes and be closed the passage to Jordan, according to the United Nations. Although the figure that most resonates in Europe is that of the 4.5 million refugees caused by this war, launched an uncertain exile outside the borders of his country, inside Syria there are also 6.6 million internally displaced likewise expelled from their homes -of his life above conflict
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