(2 Jan 2025)
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Homs, Syria – 1 January 2025
1. Various of bulldozer removing debris
2. Homs resident Khaled Sahloul with his friend
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khaled Sahloul, Homs resident:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 2 & 4++
"Our neighborhood was near the market. At the beginning of the noble revolution there was a curfew, and no one could get out of his house. So, we were forced to go from one area to another, from one alley to another, to get food.”
4. Various drone shots of destroyed buildings ++MUTE++
5. Various of Sahloul and friend inside his house
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khaled Sahloul, resident:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
"In 2012, we left this neighborhood. The house was like a hostel for the family, it was a historic house. I hope we would restore it like before and even better."
7. Debris of buildings
8. Boy making victory sign amid destroyed buildings
STORYLINE:
The Syrian civil war has left massive destruction in some neighborhoods of the city of Homs, turning it into a desolate and lifeless wasteland.
Huge numbers of buildings were destroyed during the war as former President Bashar Assad’s forces deliberately destroyed buildings and sold its iron bars.
Khaled Sahloul used to live near the Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque neighborhood. He was forced to leave as his house was in the crossfire between Assad’s forces and the Syrian opposition rebels.
His house was a historic one and his family is now trying to restore it to its former glory.
Homs has been the center of the Syrian revolution since its beginning. Several neighborhoods have been under siege and under heavy bombardment for years.
Homs is considered the third largest city in Syria. It is one of the most strategic cities in Syria, serving as a vital hub for energy resources.
AP Video by Ghaith Alsayed
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