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Ali Haj Suleiman

‘My roof was stolen’: Syrian homes looted after gov’t recapture

A picture taken by a drone shows buildings in Kafr Nabel, in Idlib province, stripped of their roofs and other construction materials [Al Jazeera]

Idlib, Syria – Ghassan Hammoud, aged 46, fled Kafr Nabel in southern Idlib province in 2019, as government forces captured opposition-held areas in Syria’s northwest.

He left behind a house he had built a few years earlier, and now lives in a displacement camp near the Turkish border, where he works as a day labourer to look after his seven children and his niece.

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