Hajar, 44, and Ibrahim, 50, from Homs, have 4 children. Two are younger than 18. The family now lives in Zarqa, Jordan.
“Homs is a city of horror,” says Hajar a mother of four from Homs. All of her children but her oldest daughter are living with her and her husband, Ibrahim, in Zarqa, Jordan. “There was the smell of explosives everywhere, there were fires burning that filled the air with black smoke. I used to go to work every day and hear the sound of snipers’ bullets. The worst thing was the fear of kidnapping,” she says. “Sometimes we didn’t take out the rubbish for days for fear of being in the street.”
“It’s hard, especially for the children,” adds Ibrahim. “Our main worry is their welfare. As an adult you can cope, but the little ones don’t understand what’s happening. They are afraid of sudden noises and if a door slams they jump.”
When the fighting came closer and closer to their neighbourhood he thought, “We either die here or we get out of Homs now."
