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The Guardian newspaper reported that the Syrian regime government approved new rules to distribute subsidized bread to citizens, exposing large families to the risk of starvation as the crippling economic crisis in the country worsens.
According to government decisions, a family of two is entitled to only one package of bread per day; While a family of 4 members gets two ties, consisting of 6 members, in 3 ties, while families of 7 or more are limited to 4 bread bands, regardless of their number in the house, and a package consists of 7 loaves.
The newspaper emphasized that most families turn to the black market for bread, in which the price of a package reaches 500 pounds, compared to 100 in government bakeries.
Earlier this year, the Syrian government had to distribute bread via smart cards due to the acute crisis in the availability of bread.
Abu Yasser, a government employee, said: “I have to get up every day at three in the morning and go to the bakery and wait three hours in line to buy bread, then go home, get dressed and go to work. but four pieces of bread are not enough to feed me. ” .
“The solution we provide so far is to eat fewer meals and try to use rice or bulgur wheat if we can find it,” he added. I can only buy bread on the black market once a week ”.
Syria suffers from a severe economic crisis, a collapse of the currency and a shortage of basic products, due to the crisis of the Crown and the economic conditions in Lebanon, in addition to the sanctions of the United States against the Syrian regime under the Law Caesar, who turns the price of bread into a grim new measure of the country’s financial problems.
During the last weeks, he also witnessed a crisis that caused a fuel shortage, which caused congestion in the streets, especially in areas where gas stations closed their work, which caused a fight between several people, causing three of they were injured, two of them in serious condition.
The observatory said in a statement on its website that the As-Suwayda governorate has witnessed a fuel supply crisis 10 days ago, especially after a quota was set for each governorate and quantities were reduced.
According to United Nations estimates, 90% of Syrians in the various parts controlled by the system live below the poverty line, unemployment has reached 80% and the World Food Program has confirmed that 9.3 million Syrians are now food insecure, an increase of 1.4 million in the six months. Past alone, the highest number ever recorded.
And Washington announced a few days ago the third batch of sanctions under the Caesar Law, which prohibits dealing with the Syrian regime or its members without holding those responsible for human rights violations committed by the regime accountable.
It also prohibits the United States from providing aid to rebuild Syria, but exempts humanitarian organizations from sanctions for their work in Syria.
“Caesar’s Law” takes its name from a former Syrian army photographer who risked fleeing the country in 2014 with 55,000 photos of brutal acts committed in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons.
The sanctions freeze the assets of the targeted persons in the United States, as well as prevent them from using the American financial system and entering American soil.
For his part, Osama al-Qadi, a Syrian economist based in Canada, said that the economic situation in Syria is at its worst since World War I, and is still going from bad to worse without a real political solution. “Syria will soon face widespread starvation,” according to “Free.”
