(10 Dec 2024)
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Damascus, Syria – 10 December 2024
1. Wide of Syria’s Central Bank
2. Close of bank with sign reading (English/Arabic): “Central Bank of Syria”
3. Police car outside bank
4. Various of Arab Bank-Syria
5. Money on desk
6. Money counter reading cash
7. Mid of bank employee and customer
8. Billboard showing exchange currency
9. Various of bank employees and money
10. Bank manager stamping documents
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sadi Ahmad, manager of Syria Gulf Bank:
“Today is the first business day for the private banks after the topple of the regime and the control of the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus and in all Syria. Today we are normally on duty, we started with the morning transactions of withdrawals and depositing for all is on process. Life is stable and things are back to normal within Damascus, things are positive.”
12. People withdrawing cash from ATM
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anas Jaarah, local resident:
“Thank God, banks are open. We were not expecting it to open after the ousting of the old regime and thank God here, Al-Barakah Bank is open. I withdrew money and the situation is normal.”
14. Various of open shops in Al-Hamadiyeh market
15. Various of employees and customers at sweets shop
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maysoun Al-Qurabi, local resident:
“Syria is more beautiful now, it has a soul. People are at ease and secure now. People were hungry and scared. There were checkpoints for the strong regime. I was against what happened but after what I saw in Saydnaya, no.”
17. Opposition fighters at market
18. Wide of market
STORYLINE:
Life was slowly returning to normal in the Syrian capital Damascus with private banks reopening for the first time since President Bashar Assad was ousted.
Sadi Ahmad, who heads a bank branch in the posh Damascus neighborhood of Abu Rummanneh, said private banks opened on Tuesday and all employees came to work.
"Life is stable and things are back to normal within Damascus, things are positive," Ahmad said.
In the ancient Hamidiyeh market in central Damascus, more shops have opened as civilians and armed men walked through buying products.
A woman who was wandering in the market expressed hope.
"Damascus is more beautiful now. It has a soul and people feel at ease and secure," said Maysoun Al-Qurabi. "People were hungry and scared. The regime was strong."
AP Video shot by Abdo Shaheen
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