-Hello, I'm Abdullah from Saraqeb in Idlib, from Syria.
I'm 32 years old, and this is my daughter, Salwa.
My daughter, Salwa is 3 years old.
-Peace be upon you. I'm Abdullah Katooz from Hobait.
-Peace be upon you.
My name is Zuhoor, from the eastern countryside of Hama.
-I'm Abdulkader al-Hussein from Nahleh village.
-Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!
-What is most frightening is not when
the air strikes causes an explosion.
but when you are waiting for death.
The moment before the airplane launches the rocket
is a very frightening moment.
There's a plane, there's an air strike.
-An air strike?
-An air strike.
[ Explosion ]
[ Both laugh ]
It's funny, right?
Regarding Salwa, I've used this technique with her
for the past two years or so.
There were children playing with fireworks,
there was a blast, so Salwa got scared.
When she got scared,
I immediately carried her and took her out to the balcony
in order for her to see that this was just children playing,
there is nothing to be afraid of.
Salwa saw with her own eye and heard with her own ear
so she was convinced that this was natural.
She remained convinced for a short time,
but then she replied that there is such a thing
as shellings and bombardments,
but she still had that linked to playing.
She would be scared, but, mostly,
she would just copy my reaction.
If she sees that I was scared, she surely will be afraid, too,
but I won't show her my fear.
-[The Assad regime and Russia ] are not only shelling,
they're also occupying the cities.
Occupation means civilians are displaced
from their homes toward the border.
-We were living in Hobait in peace, and there was nothing.
Then the displacement started after
the air strikes and the savage bombardment
and the ferocious campaign that targeted
Idlib's southern countryside.
-We can hear the bombing now while I am talking to you,
and the whole city is like -- All the people here
in Idlib area are under stress, and they cannot
find their way where to go, where to stay,
where to find a safe place.
-After the civil defense transported us
from our villages to the Syrian-Turkish borders,
we faced so many difficulties in the camps.
The situation was tragic.
-We stayed under the olive trees for three to four days,
or for a week, until we found a place to stay.
-We came here, to the camps, and there was nothing,
and then, from under the trees to tents,
where three, four, or five families
live together in one tent.
-And what a camp...
It does not have bread, it does not have heating,
we don't have anything.
I have six children, and I have no diapers for them.
I have no milk.
-In the camps, there is no water, no sewer system,
no insulators, no food, no place nearby to get medicine.
-Some of them said they prefer to die under the shelling
because they do not even have a tent to resort to.
Where would the people go?
-My situation is bad, my financial situation is bad,
and I'm living by the grace of God.
Nothing but God's will is keeping me alive.
Thank God for everything.
-This is a thing I understand now that I became a father.
But sometimes as I wander around,
I see this look on children's faces.
You know, children think their father is Superman,
someone who can solve all their problems.
But the father is completely helpless.
-I cannot envision my daughter's future;
probably the first time in my life
that I feel perfectly incapable of thinking about
my daughter's future, because there are no options.