No question of a ceasefire: in Syria people die of hunger

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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Syrians had learned a bitter lesson in the recent days: they are forced to endure hunger during the war and at a truce, notes Jürgen Stryjak.

Syrian population has not been on high hopes that the hostilities stop will be on long term. Even fewer thought that the brief and fragile ceasefire could have become a starting point for finding a solution to end the bloody conflict. However, many people have missed a cessation of violence and celebrated it as such on the streets and in cafes. The phrase most often used was during the Syrian ceasefire: Alhamdulillah – God be praised!

One of the most tragic consequences of the failure of the ceasefire in Syria is the worrying lesson learned by many people: that even with a truce it does not mean there will be a big change in their situation. People from all regions of the country are under siege and starving – mostly in the regime of Bashar Al-Assad and his allies.

The UN estimates that 600,000 Syrians are suffering from hunger. Other organizations think it is more of a million people. Aid could come to them in the early days of truce. But this did not happen and the Syrian government has not given the necessary approvals. The trucks were ready to leave for the needy people. Furthermore, a humanitarian convoy was even the target of a bombing again.

Syrians have learned that even if the fighting was paused, it does not make sense. There is hunger when fighting as well when it’s quiet.

Assad and Russia especially stress that the goal is defeating the terrorists. If Assad really wanted a truce, then why not taken the measures necessary for the starving population and to profit from it, to end the vicious circle of escalating tensions at once?

No matter who is responsible for the failure of the truce, the warring parties blame one another anyway, guilty of the starvation of hundreds of thousands of people is the one that ends the direct ceasefire without the slightest effort to save the deal to stop the violence. And this is the Assad regime.