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00:00:25titles of the revolution, has a history
00:00:34through loans. This
00:00:44From promises and projects promoted
00:00:46of property documentation and its distribution by the Syrian government under the title of reconstruction
00:00:49to proposals that shocked the residents due to its adoption
00:00:53of unjust laws and decrees that the overthrown regime
00:00:57had enacted. This scene is repeated today in many
00:01:00of the devastated Syrian areas, from Al-Qaboun to Jobar, to the Damascus
00:01:05a region in countryside, even Old Homs,
00:01:06into residential and commercial areas. Aleppo, and Deir
00:01:07Ezzor.
00:01:10After owning a two-story house in the Damascus neighborhood of Al-Qaboun,
00:01:14Nasser Jabri
00:01:17the story of Al-Qaboun begins, currently lives in
00:01:19believing that this a single room that he was able to renovate amidst the ruins
00:01:21of his destroyed house. His wife and children
00:01:27formulas, and considered live in a rented house under harsh living conditions. The
00:01:30economic deterioration
00:01:33and their right and rising prices have exacerbated its severity. I have made a room there
00:01:35where my floors were. I cleaned it, as they say, I made a room and put up
00:01:40Today, after years of
00:01:40and organizational shares, a canopy and I am staying there. What is this story? We don't know
00:01:43what to do. I am the biggest
00:01:47supporter of the state and of President Ahmed Al-Shara for
00:01:50all the world, but also help us a little. Look, look, look.
00:01:55According to the residents, Where, where am I going to go? Where am I going to go? I am 60 years old. I left
00:01:59my wife. For example, they are living in a rented place, and they can't afford
00:02:02to pay the rent. One month we pay the rent, one month we don't eat, one month we eat, one month we don't
00:02:06pay
00:02:07to which they belong. So, is it
00:02:08him to obtain actual alternative housing. the rent. Nasser's story was repeated
00:02:11to us many times while preparing this episode about
00:02:14Al-Qaboun. Al-Qaboun, this Damascus
00:02:17neighborhood, where the percentage of destruction exceeds
00:02:2090%, and most of its residents were displaced in
00:02:232017 to return most of them after the fall
00:02:27of the overthrown regime and find their homes that
00:02:30they left standing had become ruins
00:02:33after having been homeowners
00:02:36and property owners, many found themselves forced to look for
00:02:40houses for rent, while they do not have the ability to
00:02:44needs more rebuild what they lost. And here the crucial question arises:
00:02:48Are we facing a real reconstruction that does justice
00:02:51to the residents, or are we facing real estate investment
00:02:55that infringes on their rights? A question imposed
00:02:58by the presented projects and statements issued
00:03:02regarding Al-Qaboun, Jobar, and other areas,
00:03:04as the nature of the plans indicates that we are facing commercial
00:03:08offers and investment priorities
00:03:11that are far from the priorities of the original
00:03:15residents and their urgent need to return and settle.
00:03:20residents to
00:03:25The neighborhood, which includes
00:03:32Al-Qaboun, a story of a multi-faceted neighborhood, where three main
00:03:35types of real estate uses converged: residential,
00:03:39industrial, and agricultural, in
00:03:42addition to unplanned urban expansion areas.
00:03:45This diversity is linked to the history of the neighborhood's
00:03:48establishment and expansion, and to the absence of comprehensive urban planning
00:03:52in various stages, which led to the emergence
00:03:55of illegal areas and complications in property
00:03:58registration. Determining their legal nature,
00:04:01Al-Qaboun witnessed since the 1940s
00:04:05and then during the 1960s
00:04:07of establishment owners? The and 1970s an industrial and commercial expansion
00:04:11with the spread of factories, workshops,
00:04:14and car maintenance centers, in addition to an industrial
00:04:18area that came to include hundreds of small
00:04:21and medium-sized establishments. The neighborhood also hosted bus garages
00:04:24and depots for buses between Damascus
00:04:27and Syrian governorates, which strengthened
00:04:30its position and described it as one of the main
00:04:32entrances to the capital
00:04:36and service uses, instead this project. and an important commercial and service center. A century-old urban area.
00:04:39I mean, it's about 100 to 125 years old.
00:04:43Today, Al-Qaboun is, you could say, like a neglected
00:04:46area, even since
00:04:50out of them. And according to this Bashar al-Assad's time, and during Hafez al-Assad's time.
00:04:53status of parts of Al-Qaboun was divided into two halves. We had a residential
00:04:55section and an industrial section, as they say. The highway separates
00:04:59them. This Damascus
00:05:02Al-Qaboun consists of three
00:05:05area like Adra does neighborhoods: the Factories neighborhood, the residential Al-Qaboun neighborhood, in addition to the Tishreen neighborhood. These three
00:05:08neighborhoods form the trust of Al-Qaboun.
00:05:12Previously, its fixed boundaries and landmarks were present before the revolution.
00:05:15Now, these boundaries are fixed, and the boundaries do not change, but
00:05:19the landmarks have changed. The landmarks
00:05:21of both neighborhoods have completely changed.
00:05:27Each neighborhood in Damascus has its story and history, linked in some
00:05:31way to its orchards and rivers. The Damascus neighborhood of
00:05:34Al-Qaboun, which was one of the
00:05:38and story with Damascus since it was a village in the Ghouta
00:05:41of Damascus. To its north, it is bordered by Jobar neighborhood
00:05:45to the south, Barzeh neighborhood to the west, and Harasta
00:05:49city to the north. Al-Qaboun is considered an important
00:05:52link between Damascus and the surrounding rural areas,
00:05:55which makes it a vital center
00:05:58for transportation and trade. Thanks to its strategic
00:06:02location, the neighborhood extends over a network of main
00:06:05roads that connect Damascus with neighboring
00:06:08cities and towns, making it easy to access from
00:06:12various parts of the city. Of course, Al-Qaboun
00:06:16is located in the northern area, the northern
00:06:19gate of Damascus, and
00:06:22work on Al-Qaboun cannot be done unless we work
00:06:25in harmony with the surrounding areas, especially, for example,
00:06:28Jobar, and in connection with Barzeh and in connection with the Damascus
00:06:32countryside.
00:06:34That is, a large part of the area is destroyed and
00:06:38a part of it is still standing. And with the expansion of Damascus during the second
00:06:42half of the twentieth century, parts of Al-Qaboun turned
00:06:45into industrial and commercial areas,
00:06:48while other parts maintained their old residential character
00:06:52to form an area that combines urban patterns
00:06:55and different real estate rights. This
00:06:59is my destroyed house made of brick, and next to it,
00:07:03below, its area is six
00:07:05injuries, 150 meters. When we left
00:07:09and were displaced, my house was standing. We returned to find it on the ground.
00:07:13A large part of the neighborhood's residents left during the displacement campaigns
00:07:16carried out by the overthrown regime after its control of the neighborhood in 2017.
00:07:20According to many of them,
00:07:24they left their homes standing, not demolished, but when they
00:07:28returned, the scene was terrifying, as the neighborhood
00:07:31had become ruins after the overthrown regime
00:07:35demolished it.
00:07:42However, the suffering of the residents did not stop at destruction
00:07:45and displacement. The neighborhood then entered
00:07:49a new phase of attempts to seize it through
00:07:53plans and legislations issued by the Damascus Governorate and the Assad
00:07:57regime, ignoring the rights of owners and industrial
00:08:00establishment owners. When we left Al-Qaboun, there were houses standing,
00:08:04meaning the destruction was not of that magnitude.
00:08:08So we left and were displaced. We settled in northern Syria in Idlib. Of course,
00:08:11when we returned here, we were surprised by the amount of destruction
00:08:14we found. Today, they are demolishing and taking out iron from
00:08:18its roofs and taking out. I mean, today they are not stealing electricity, nor are they stealing plumbing
00:08:21or doors. They are stealing iron from the columns and roofs. I have a two-story
00:08:25house. We came after they evacuated us
00:08:28by bus. I returned to the country here and found the whole country in ruins, and there was nothing
00:08:32left of my house. So where am I going? Where am I going to go
00:08:34with myself? The destruction that struck Al-Qaboun
00:08:38was not the end of the story. After its residents left, parts of it entered
00:08:42a new path of urban planning that had direct
00:08:45repercussions on the rights of owners and establishment owners. In
00:08:49June 2019,
00:08:51the Damascus Governorate approved the detailed organizational plan No.
00:08:55104 for the Al-Qaboun Industrial
00:08:59area. The plan aimed to reorganize the area
00:09:02and change its urban uses, which opens
00:09:06the way for the establishment of residential, commercial,
00:09:09and service towers at the expense of large parts
00:09:12of the existing industrial fabric. And on September
00:09:1514, 2021, Bashar al-Assad issued Decree No.
00:09:19237, which established the Northern
00:09:23Damascus Entrance organization area, which included the two real
00:09:25estate areas of Al-Qaboun and Harasta, based on
00:09:29plan 104 and on the provisions of Law No. 10
00:09:32of 2018.
00:09:35We couldn't enter this area after the building. There,
00:09:38near Sheikh Ja', we couldn't enter. It was being demolished.
00:09:42They were working, destroying, breaking. The demolition crews pulled
00:09:45all the iron with excavators, and all these
00:09:48plots were standing. All these plots were all houses standing.
00:09:52Most of the buildings here were standing. We entered
00:09:55after they demolished them all with excavators
00:09:59and flattened them. They pulled the iron
00:10:02path, the organizational
00:10:06the area changed from industrial and agricultural to residential
00:10:09and commercial, which opened the door for industrial
00:10:13and handicraft establishments from the area and the redistribution
00:10:16of land uses. It consists
00:10:19of two parts: the industrial Al-Qaboun neighborhood and the residential Al-Qaboun neighborhood.
00:10:23The residents refused
00:10:26reconciliation with the regime
00:10:29and were displaced to Idlib, so
00:10:32no residents remained within the neighborhood.
00:10:35Demolition and looting
00:10:39teams, as they call them, entered, and buildings
00:10:42that were not destroyed in the war were demolished
00:10:46through looting to extract iron. The residential
00:10:49Al-Qaboun was not included in plan 104 itself.
00:10:52So the governorate announced in June 2020
00:10:56another detailed plan with the number 105
00:10:59to organize residential
00:11:00Al-Qaboun.
00:11:07The residential section, which was previously called residential Al-Qaboun, is on
00:11:11an area of 340 hectares, and the section
00:11:15that was previously industrial is
00:11:18199 hectares. Of course, currently, it is not possible, I mean, within
00:11:22Damascus, for an industrial area to remain, also there is
00:11:25the bus station. So now, regarding
00:11:28the organizational plan, we are studying several scenarios
00:11:32for the solution. Urban planning laws in Syria, quite simply, previously
00:11:36transformed from a tool of reconstruction to a tool of collective punishment and seizure
00:11:40of the properties of Syrian citizens, including opponents
00:11:43and displaced people, and creating demographic and cultural change
00:11:46in the areas that were outside its control. One of the most
00:11:49prominent problems is that the organization was not limited to changing the shape
00:11:53of buildings and streets. It was also linked to the redistribution
00:11:57of real estate rights. In the organizational areas,
00:12:00rights holders are dealt with according to a system of shares
00:12:05instead of retaining the property itself
00:12:08and its previous location. With the displacement
00:12:11of residents and the damage to documents and records, some
00:12:15owners faced difficulties in proving their ownership and following up
00:12:18on their rights, while the valuation and share
00:12:21distribution mechanisms raised objections regarding the value
00:12:23of the shares and the possibility of benefiting
00:12:27from them. Between 2018 and 2024,
00:12:30the organization procedures and the estimation of plot
00:12:34values and the distribution of organizational shares
00:12:36in the northern Damascus entrance area continued, despite
00:12:40the objections and real estate
00:12:43problems. The organizational plan was terminating individual
00:12:46ownership, and the compensation or alternative
00:12:49housing would only be seen by the owner if he survived the confiscation
00:12:53and proved his right. But currently, we hope from the new
00:12:57government, born from the womb of the world, to look with
00:13:00compassion at the wounds and pains
00:13:02of the citizens. And we ask the citizens
00:13:06to be patient, because the state
00:13:09time to achieve justice, and it needs
00:13:13a real opportunity. Of course, all
00:13:16the projects do not comply with the wishes of the people of the country.
00:13:19Today, it's like stealing from you in plain sight.
00:13:22So we want something that is suitable for
00:13:25the investor and suitable for the residents of the country, no more no less.
00:13:29I mean, today we cannot make the country into a
00:13:32as they say.
00:13:36In reconstruction, who has the decision and who pays
00:13:39the price? The reconstruction process of
00:13:43Al-Qaboun faces intertwined legislative, economic,
00:13:47and engineering complexities.
00:13:50many industrial and agricultural areas,
00:13:54has transformed into a model of tension
00:13:57between the government's vision for urban development and the individual
00:14:01property rights of residents. With the fall of the ousted regime, the reconstruction
00:14:04file returned to the forefront, but this time the dispute
00:14:08was not only about the plans of the previous regime,
00:14:11but also about the formula that the new
00:14:14authorities would adopt to finance and
00:14:17implement the reconstruction. One of the most important conditions for reconstruction is to preserve the residents
00:14:21and their rights,
00:14:23so there is no demographic change, no change of residents,
00:14:27so that people return. The original settlers should be in their
00:14:31own area. There should be no change that reconstruction
00:14:34or real estate development leads to their displacement outside
00:14:38their preserved area. You are not allowed to build. We will present
00:14:41to you a reconstruction project. They presented to us
00:14:44a reconstruction project, and they gave us a percentage of 30%.
00:14:47I have 150 meters. How much will they give me? They will give me 40,
00:14:5145 meters. What is 45 meters? It's a small
00:14:56amount. We don't want
00:14:59On March 13, 2026,
00:15:03the Damascus Governorate held a meeting to discuss the reconstruction
00:15:06of the eastern areas of the capital, primarily Al-Qaboun
00:15:09and Jobar, amidst a trend to use real estate development
00:15:13companies to finance the project and implement the infrastructure
00:15:16and buildings. The proposals
00:15:19discussed different formulas for distributing rights between
00:15:22owners and investors, including a model that grants
00:15:26the investor a share of the area in exchange for bearing
00:15:29the costs of financing and implementation. The
00:15:32core of the dispute was over the shares and the percentage of what the property
00:15:36owner would receive from his property. The governorate, in one
00:15:39of the offers, provided compensation of 50% of
00:15:42the residential property area and 30% for agricultural
00:15:46lands. This means that the property owner gets alternative housing
00:15:49equivalent to half the area of his real estate
00:15:52ownership and 30% for agricultural lands.
00:15:56We followed up with the Damascus Governorate regarding the reconstruction
00:15:59of the neighborhood. Many options were proposed.
00:16:03The governor suggested that reconstruction should be
00:16:06through grants, but no grants came for the country, or
00:16:11second option was ruled out, so
00:16:15the state would not bear additional burdens. The third
00:16:17option was to issue an organizational plan for the distribution
00:16:23to the residents, and then people would specialize in the new plots and build by themselves.
00:16:27And a fourth proposal was put forward, which is through
00:16:30investment. There was a project submitted by the governorate
00:16:33for its reconstruction through
00:16:36investment.
00:16:38The law here is clear: it is forbidden to remove
00:16:41even one stone or to undertake any reconstruction before all
00:16:45citizens' objections are resolved and their full rights are proven.
00:16:49The residents rejected these offers, considering that they are no different
00:16:53from the laws and decrees issued by the Assad regime,
00:16:56offer will lead to the displacement of residents, demanding
00:17:00a modification of the formula to make it more fair
00:17:03to their rights.
00:17:05Now, part of the neighborhood was a planned
00:17:07area before, and it had infrastructure that was taken from
00:17:11the land ownerships when it was organized. There is another
00:17:14part of the land that is agricultural land.
00:17:17This, whether it falls under reconstruction
00:17:21or real estate development, is treated as if it were agricultural
00:17:24land. So, infrastructure
00:17:28is deducted from it, as are public facilities and buildings.
00:17:33the problem is not only about the share percentage that the owner
00:17:37will receive, but also about how it is calculated,
00:17:40distributed, and its location, and whether it will allow
00:17:45We submitted approvals to the governorate to
00:17:49renovate and rebuild our houses. They didn't allow us. They are not
00:17:51allowing us. They said there are investors who want
00:17:55to invest in the country. They are not giving us
00:17:57our rights. For example, my house is 100
00:18:00meters. They are not giving us our rights. We are willing for
00:18:04a 100-meter house to give us 75 meters. We want
00:18:07it as it was before.
00:18:10A Muslim contractor, a local Muslim contractor, gives us 50%
00:18:14for reconstruction. My floor is
00:18:16four or five stories high. He gives me
00:18:2050% of it, meaning my 150 meters makes
00:18:24me at least equivalent to about 300
00:18:27meters. So if ownerships are converted into common
00:18:30shares in a large real estate project, some
00:18:34owners may find themselves with shares insufficient to obtain
00:18:37a separate apartment, which may force them to sell
00:18:40them, perhaps at prices that do not reflect the true
00:18:44value of their properties. Residents warn that
00:18:48this could lead to the transfer of ownership of large parts of the neighborhood
00:18:52to large companies and investors, at the expense
00:18:55of the ability of the original
00:18:58return. That is, even regarding the organizational plan or the plans
00:19:01that we have been studying for some time,
00:19:04this is not done except with the participation of the local
00:19:08community and specialists of the local community. Each area
00:19:12in its own place. The members of the local community or
00:19:16specialists are with us in the study, especially regarding compensation.
00:19:19We have several scenarios that we are studying to reach the highest possible
00:19:23level of compensation for individuals and property owners.
00:19:26The issue of reconstruction is that the country was destroyed
00:19:30and will be rebuilt, including the infrastructure. The plots will be
00:19:34at the expense of the donor countries or the state will carry out this matter.
00:19:40But what about industrial Al-Qaboun, and what about the rights
00:19:45problem of Al-Qaboun does not stop
00:19:48at residential properties, but extends to hundreds
00:19:51of industrial and handicraft establishments that formed
00:19:54an essential part of the neighborhood's identity and economy.
00:19:57Organizational plan No. 104 and Decree
00:20:01237 changed the organizational uses
00:20:05of parts of industrial Al-Qaboun. It opens
00:20:08the door for converting the area to residential,
00:20:11commercial,
00:20:14of the industrial activity for which it was known
00:20:17for decades.
00:20:22This raises another question: What about the owners of factories
00:20:26and workshops? And are their rights limited to the value of the properties
00:20:30they own? Or do they also include their rights
00:20:34related to practicing industrial and commercial activity
00:20:37and the livelihoods of their workers?
00:20:40Moving to an alternative industrial
00:20:43not automatically solve the problem, as operating and transportation
00:20:46costs, labor and market availability,
00:20:50and working conditions differ between the two locations.
00:20:53With the fall of the ousted regime, residents were surprised by the continued
00:20:57implementation of previous plans without reviewing them and
00:21:01without the new government clarifying how
00:21:03it would deal with the rights of establishment
00:21:06and profession owners. Several scenarios for solutions
00:21:10are being considered simultaneously, so if the first plan is rejected
00:21:13or fails or is not successful,
00:21:17we can move to the second scenario. In all
00:21:20these scenarios, there are red lines that cannot
00:21:23be crossed, including that rights are protected, citizens' rights
00:21:27are protected. Even the areas that were irregular, we look
00:21:31at them in a humanitarian
00:21:34way that preserves the rights
00:21:36and
00:21:38properties of citizens and their possessions.
00:21:41The new organization, considering that Damascus
00:21:45has expanded, was previously considered outside the boundaries of Damascus,
00:21:48so there are no longer industrial factories. The area will be moved outside
00:21:52Damascus city and will be reorganized
00:21:56This is good for industrialists. Most of them were given
00:21:59facilities to move their factories to outside Damascus,
00:22:02and this area will be a residential and commercial area.
00:22:06In response to the proposed investment offers, local
00:22:10bodies and the Board of Trustees of Al-Qaboun neighborhood called
00:22:13for a review of the proposed
00:22:17that they do not achieve the desired balance between the owner's
00:22:21rights and the investors' share. The organizational shares
00:22:24are very unfair to citizens, because the financial valuation
00:22:28is very low, not reaching 2 to 3% of the actual
00:22:31value of the properties. For example, in Damascus Governorate,
00:22:34projects like Marouta City and behind Al-Razi,
00:22:38large areas were expropriated, reaching
00:22:4140% of the land area, without compensating
00:22:45their owners, under the pretext of including them in public facilities,
00:22:48gardens, and roads. So we have projects, something called projects,
00:22:52that you come and invest in me or in my land, we don't want it. We
00:22:56demand the government and we demand the governorate to come
00:22:59and look at us, especially us who were
00:23:02the ones who started the revolution. You come
00:23:06and look at us and our situation. You
00:23:09know, my house. My family was martyred, and my brothers were martyred,
00:23:13my cousins were martyred. And this is the situation
00:23:16of the whole country. And finally, you come and tell me instead
00:23:20of my 100-meter land, you will give me 40 meters or 30 meters
00:23:24or 21, 30 meters. And I don't have it. I have been
00:23:27displaced for 14 years. I have basically lost my job, lost my children, lost
00:23:30my children's future. I had children who were studying, and their future was lost. They participated
00:23:34in this revolution. And you come and want to displace me and cause demographic
00:23:38change, meaning a continuation of the regime. We can't say it. You are our government. May God
00:23:41help you. The objections of the residents focus on the distribution
00:23:45percentages of rights, the method of calculating the value of properties,
00:23:49and implementation guarantees, and housing allowances during the reconstruction
00:23:52period, in addition to concerns about changing the social
00:23:55fabric and the spatial memory
00:23:59of the neighborhood. Representatives of the residents also demanded
00:24:02that other development companies be given the opportunity, and that the
00:24:06details of the offers, plans, and contracts be clear
00:24:09and announced before any final
00:24:13decisions are made. I am from Al-Qaboun. I mean, for generations,
00:24:16my whole family is here. The Junaid family is well-known. We are from the residents of
00:24:20Al-Qaboun. This is where
00:24:24our building is. There were two blocks next to
00:24:28Sheikh Jaber Mosque. We left here in
00:24:312011. The building was standing,
00:24:35and all the houses here in this block were standing. This
00:24:38miserable regime demolished them all
00:24:41with excavators and bulldozers, and they extracted
00:24:45the iron from them. The
00:24:48destroyed neighborhoods,
00:24:50and it is natural that no building permits
00:24:54are currently issued, or reconstruction is allowed, because the organizational
00:24:57plan is about to be
00:25:00issued. So it is better for them to have
00:25:03a well-planned urban area that suits Damascus
00:25:07and is even better for the citizen. In September
00:25:102026, the Board of Trustees of Al-Qaboun
00:25:13announced its rejection of the proposals in their current form,
00:25:16stressing the need to protect the rights of owners
00:25:20and preserve the identity and social fabric
00:25:23of the neighborhood. This objection
00:25:26does not necessarily mean rejecting reconstruction
00:25:29as much as it reflects the dispute over its conditions
00:25:32and the party that will bear its costs and the share that
00:25:35each party will receive. I mean, my children's future,
00:25:39if they give me 45 meters, I don't
00:25:42have the full meter. It will be worth at least 1,200
00:25:45dollars per 100 meters. These are 10,000 dollars. Where do I get
00:25:4910,000 dollars from? I can't. I'm talking about 10 or
00:25:5215 thousand dollars. Ultimately, we want a project that satisfies
00:25:55the people and at the same time benefits the investor,
00:25:58but there should be no theft, there should be a percentage,
00:26:01as they say, that satisfies the residents, so that no one leaves
00:26:05Al-Qaboun. I mean, today, someone who owns a plot should not leave Al-Qaboun.
00:26:08I mean, today, if I get 30 meters or 20 meters, he can't complete
00:26:12this in the current situation. He has to bring it. Al-Qaboun,
00:26:15in addition to its real estate and economic value, has a social
00:26:19and urban identity that has been formed over
00:26:22generations. The old Al-Qaboun, with its alleys,
00:26:26houses, and mosques, is different
00:26:29from its modern residential extensions and industrial areas.
00:26:33These components cannot be condensed into one plan
00:26:37without studying the impact on the memory
00:26:39of the place and its residents. There is
00:26:43a standing and organized part of Al-Qaboun, and it is currently
00:26:46inhabited. This has not been touched. It has remained as it is,
00:26:49and even in the old town of Al-Qaboun, some
00:26:53residents have returned to their homes and renovated them, and
00:26:56are now living there. We haven't touched it yet.
00:27:00So what about those who lost their homes and belongings and their
00:27:04children? As much as possible, as they say, as we
00:27:08promised them a decent life, we won't
00:27:10steal it.
00:27:12From Nasser's small room, which he managed to repair
00:27:16in his destroyed house,
00:27:19but it does not end at the walls of a house or a roof that needs
00:27:23repair. Behind the rubble lie thousands
00:27:26of stories of homeowners, workshops, and lands
00:27:30who not only lost their properties, but also lost
00:27:33their livelihoods
00:27:36to live in the place that they built its identity
00:27:39for decades.
00:27:42displacement and destruction, these people await a reconstruction
00:27:45that does not turn them into strangers in their neighborhoods
00:27:49and does not turn their loss into an investment
00:27:52opportunity at the expense of their rights.
00:27:55Reconstruction is not just towers, modern roads, and real estate
00:27:59projects, but it is, above all,
00:28:02restoring people to their homes and places and their right to determine
00:28:06the future of the neighborhood
00:28:10possible for Al-Qaboun to be a model for reconstruction
00:28:13that restores rights to their owners, or
00:28:16will it turn into a new urban project
00:28:19that changes the face of the place, while many of its original
00:28:23inhabitants find it difficult
00:28:25to return to it?
00:30:31News bulletin from Syria TV. Welcome.
00:30:34بكم
00:30:37New Syrian-Saudi agreements include development
00:30:41and defense during President Ahmed Al-Shara's visit.
00:30:43to the Kingdom.
00:30:46Two people were injured by a hand grenade explosion
00:30:50in the city of Nawa, west of
00:30:52Daraa.
00:30:57Civil Defense ends the search for those missing in the floods in the Raqqa countryside
00:31:00after finding the body.