{"id":7307,"date":"2013-09-10T11:24:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/10\/syria-travel-diaries-part-1\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:24:50","slug":"syria-travel-diaries-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/syria-travel-diaries-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Travel Diaries : Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Mufti Moosagie's – Syrian travel Diaries: Part 1<\/p>\n

September 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muhammed Nur is a 15 year old boy originally from Idlib, Syria. Six weeks ago, at the end of Ramadhan, he was sitting to have Iftaar with his mother and 5 siblings. His father has been living in Italy for 10 years trying to support his family. A few moments before the Magrib Azaan, a rocket struck their home. A dileberate strike at a time when it could cause the most fatalities since most familes are together to break their fast. His mother's hand was injured and a piece of shrapnel hit him at the back of his head causing serve injury to his head. He was fortunate to receive treatment immediately, but was left with a major physical impediment : he is now unable to talk and has to be assissted by his younger brother to fufill the most basic tasks.<\/p><\/div>\n

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He is just one of  50 boys that are being taken care of at the Syrian Medical Center in Reyhanli, close to the Turkish-Syrian border.<\/p>\n

When we visited the center earlier today  I was reduced to tears listening to the many stories of loss and injuries. While we were sitting in the office of the administrator of the center we could hear a child crying in the back groud.  We were told that it was the cry of a 5 year old boy who had been brought to the center just a few days ago. He was paralysed in the lower part of his body when shrapnel from a bomb struck the lower part of his spine. <\/p>\n

We were also told of a lady who was brought to the center about 3 months ago. She had been burnt on her face.  It was not a burn caused by fire but rather by chemicals.  The burn was pinkish and different. She had to be transferred to the local hospital where she passed away a week later. It is a sign that Bashar Al Assad has been using chemicals for a while now.<\/p>\n

There are many similar stories  of human suffering and tragedy.  Every Syrian that we have been talking to tell us about their own loses with great courage – trying to hold back their emotions and putting up a brave face. <\/p>\n

The conflict is into its 3rd year and there seems to be no end in sight. People we speak to say that it may continue for another 10 years. A heavy price indeed the Syrians are paying for liberation. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  From Mufti Moosagie's – Syrian travel Diaries: Part 1 September 2013 Muhammed Nur is a 15 year old boy originally from Idlib, Syria. Six weeks ago, at the end of Ramadhan, he was sitting to have Iftaar with his mother and 5 siblings. His father has been living in Italy for 10 years trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mufti-moosagie-in-syria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-1TR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 16:43:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}