Madaya (Syria)
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 41 ′ N , 36 ° 6 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
| Rif Dimashq | |||
| District | Az Zabdani | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SY-RD | ||
| district | Madaya | ||
| height | 1608 m | ||
| Residents | 9371 (2004) | ||
Madaya ( Arabic مضايا, DMG Maḍāyā ) is a place in the Syrian district of the same name . It is located 40 km northwest of Damascus in the Az-Zabadani district in the Rif Dimaschq governorate . In 2004 the place Madaya had about 9400, the entire district about 11.900 inhabitants. The place is at an altitude of 1500 meters. Madaya is known for its spring water, fresh fruit and healthy climate. It was a popular resort until the outbreak of the Syrian civil war .
Siege in the Civil War
According to unconfirmed statements , Madaya, whose population grew to up to 40,000 during the course of the Syrian civil war - mainly due to the influx of refugees from the also besieged administrative center of Az-Zabadani - has increased from that of the Syrian Prime Minister Bashar al-Assad allied Hezbollah besieged . The people living in the village, mostly civilians, are “as good as closed off from the outside world. The way out of the city is mined on one side and blocked by snipers, on the other side the Syrian army controls the streets and Hezbollah fighters allied with it ”. The ICRC's Syria coordinator, Pawel Krzysiek, spoke of a ghost town during his visit .
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , 23 people had died by January 2016 as a result of the blockade of Hezbollah or the mines that the Assad regime laid around the city. The Federal Government’s human rights commissioner, Christoph Strässer , appealed to Assad’s allies, Russia and Iran , to allow humanitarian access.
The aid organization Doctors Without Borders was “extremely alarmed”. In its statement, the organization announced that six babies had already starved to death in the “open-air prison” and that “there was no way in or out”, “so that people are left to die”.
In September 2016 “people could be provided with food and medicine again”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b census. ( xls ; 2.49 MB) humanitarianresponse.info, August 17, 2011, archived from the original on July 1, 2015 ; Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Gockel, Helga Bruns: Syria, Lebanon (= Nelles Guide). Nelles, Munich, 1998, ISBN 3-88618-105-7 , p. 6: "Northern Syria: The Barada Valley" (English).
- ↑ Inhabitants of the Syrian city of Madaya: “Please save us - we're dying!” Tagesschau article on BR24 , January 6, 2016, archived from the original on January 10, 2016 ; Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Kareem Shaheen: Inside Madaya: 'It feels deserted but you know there are people there' . The Guardian , January 11, 2016, accessed September 26, 2016.
- ↑ Activists: The number of starvation deaths in Madaja, Syria, is increasing . dpa article on sueddeutsche.de , January 7, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2020.
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↑ They eat dogs, cats and leaves: hunger drama in the Syrian city of Madaya . APA article in Salzburg24 News, January 8, 2016, accessed on September 26, 2016.
Mustafa al-Haj (pseudonym), Pascale el-Khoury (translation): Syrian regime displaces Zabadani residents . ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Al-Monitor, September 15, 2015, accessed on September 26, 2016 (English; original article in Arabic ( memento of the original from January 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ). Laura Pitel: War in Syria: Up to 40,000 civilians are starving in besieged Madaya, say campaigners . The Independent , January 1, 2016, accessed September 26, 2016. Kareem Shaheen, Emma Graham-Harrison: Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death . The Guardian , January 6, 2016, accessed September 26, 2016. Civil war: tens of thousands of Syrians are starving in besieged cities . Spiegel Online , January 6, 2016, accessed September 26, 2016.
- ↑ Syria: According to the Red Cross, aid convoys reach four besieged cities . Spiegel Online , September 26, 2016.
