After reducing the per capita share of bread … Has famine...

The Guardian newspaper reported that the government of the Syrian regime has approved new rules for distributing subsidized bread to citizens, which exposes large families to the risk of starvation as the crippling economic crisis in the country worsens.

According to government decisions, a family of two is entitled to only one bundle of bread per day; While a family of 4 members gets two ties, consisting of 6 members, on 3 ties, while families of 7 or more are limited to 4 bands of bread, regardless of their number in the house, and one bundle consists of 7 loaves.

The newspaper emphasized that most families resort to the black market to get bread, in which the price of a bundle reaches 500 pounds, compared to 100 in government bakeries.

At the beginning of this year, the Syrian government had to distribute bread using smart cards due to the acute crisis in the availability of bread.

Abu Yasser, a government employee, said: “I have to get up every day at three in the morning and go to the bakery and wait three hours in line so I can buy bread, then go home, get dressed and go to work, but four pieces of bread are not enough to feed me.” .

“The solution we provide so far is to eat fewer meals and try to use rice or bulgur wheat if we can find it,” he added. I can only buy bread on the black market once a week. ”

Syria suffers from a severe economic crisis, a collapse of the currency and a shortage of basic commodities, due to the Corona crisis and the economic conditions in Lebanon, in addition to US sanctions against the Syrian regime under the Caesar Act, which makes the price of bread a new, grim measure of the country’s financial problems.

During the past weeks, he also witnessed a crisis causing a shortage of fuel, which caused congestion in the streets, especially in areas where gas stations closed their work, which caused a quarrel between a number of people, causing three of them were injured, two of them in serious condition.

The observatory indicated in a statement on its website that the As-Suwayda governorate has been witnessing a crisis in the provision of fuel 10 days ago, especially after a quota was set for each governorate, and quantities reduced.

According to United Nations estimates, 90% of Syrians in the various parts controlled by the system live below the poverty line, unemployment has reached 80%, and the World Food Program has confirmed that 9.3 million Syrians are now suffering from food insecurity, an increase of 1.4 million in the six months. Past alone, the highest number ever recorded.

And Washington announced a few days ago, the third batch of sanctions under the Caesar Act, which prohibits dealing with the Syrian regime or its members without holding those responsible for human rights violations committed by the regime to account.

The United States is also prohibited from providing aid to rebuild Syria, but it exempts humanitarian organizations from sanctions for their work in Syria.

“Caesar’s Law” takes its name from a former photographer in the Syrian army who risked fleeing the country in 2014 with 55,000 photos of brutal acts committed in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons.

The sanctions freeze any assets of the targeted people in the United States, as well as prevent them from using the US financial system and entering American soil.

For his part, Osama al-Qadi, the Syrian economist residing in Canada, said that the economic situation in Syria is at its worst since the First World War, and it is still from bad to worse without any real political solution. “Syria will soon face widespread famine,” according to “Free”.