East Aleppo: Years of ‘deliberate’ neglect and poor services

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 East Aleppo: Years of ‘deliberate’ neglect and poor services
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Garbage piles up on the side of a street in the Ard al-Sabbagh area of Aleppo city’s eastern Salaheddin neighborhood, 20/5/2024 (Laith Hamishli/Syria Direct)
An article by our partner Syria Direst: Nearly seven years after east Aleppo returned to regime control, the area’s neighborhoods still struggle with poor basic services—from electricity and water to sanitation—leaving residents feeling the neglect is “deliberate.”