Turkey cut water from million Syrians

Syria’s al-Hasakeh region is newly lived in the water lack after that Turkish forces blocked operations at the Allouk pumping water station on Saturday. This disturbance generated a huge popular anger, and the regime loyalists organized protests.

Indeed, local sources stated that Turkey had blocked operations at the station on Saturday and banned workers from entering it, while Allouk considers the only source of the consumption water for almost a million people living in al-Hasakeh in northeastern

. Often, operations there have stopped because of the Turkish shooting and power cuts. Whereas, the station restarted operating on December 17 after weeks of closing.

It should note that people protested on Monday against the latest closing, and they denounced Turkish forces and their affiliated Syrian factions for ceasing drinking water provisions to the big regions in northeastern Syria. They also expressed their disappointment with the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), demanding that the forces should remove the siege on neighborhoods and areas controlled by the regime.

Many arrests occurred between the Kurdish Asayish security forces and regime forces in the cities of al-Hasakeh and al-Qamishli during January, which induce the increase of tensions between the SDF and Damascus.

However, the closure of the Allouk station would conduct to the displacement of a million people and residents from their camps, after their privation from drinking water.

In fact, the station is the major water source to al-Hasakeh city and the close areas, and also three displacement camps, including al-Hol that constitute the home of 62,000 people, while the other camps are Washokani with 12,000 refugees and al-Areesha with 13,000.

Last year, the International Committee for the Red Cross showed its worries about the repeated interruptions of water provisions in al-Hasakeh and the horrible situation that has been increased with the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic.