The Reach of War – A Day in the Life of Syria

Introduction

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As the day begins, surgeons in two different towns in Jordan start their rounds, visiting with one grievously wounded patient after another, knowing more will soon be on the way.

In Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, doctors, nurses, social workers, and midwives begin calling in the mothers, fathers, and children already assembled outside four different clinics.

In northern Iraq, a doctor—a refugee himself—walks briskly towards the cries and clamors of new patients who have likewise found themselves far from home, with no sense of when they might return.

And inside Syria, where the war that has altered the lives of all these people continues without pause and without mercy, medical teams renew their efforts to do what they can to address even a fraction of the needs they see day after day.

The Reach of War – A Day in the Life of Syria

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In late 2013 Médecins sans Frontières sent four photographers and videographers – Kate Brooks, Ton Koene, Yuri Kozyrev, and Moises Saman – to outposts in Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, where MSF provides help to Syrian refugees.

The project documents a single day in Syria’s war, chronicling its reach beyond the country’s borders. The photography and video captured by these award winning photojournalists has been compiled into a dedicated online microsite – The Reach of War.

LebanonThe Search for ShelterPhotographs by Moises Saman/Magnum

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Syrian refugees in the waiting room of the MSF clinic in the village of Majdal Anjar, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

A Syrian woman and her child during a doctor consultation at an MSF operated clinic in the village of Majdal Anjar, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

Syrian refugees living in a tent settlement in the village of Arsal, Lebanon.

A Syrian refugee on her way to fetch drinking water in the village of Arsal, Lebanon.

A young Syrian boy living in the grounds of a former prison now occupied by several Syrian refugee families on the outskirts of the village of Majdal Anjar, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

Amman, JordanCold Cases

Photographs by Kate Brooks/Redux

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Mohammed Akhmad, 38, from Dur'ra, Syria was injured in January 2014 when he was trying to help a car of women and children that had been hit by an airstrike. He was himself wounded in a second strike at the same location and subsequently lost his right leg, and severe injuries to his hand.

Bisher Hawele, 20, from Damascus was shot in the leg on 20 Feb 2012. After receiving basic care in Syria, he is now receiving treatment in Jordan by MSF doctors.

Maria, 8, from Sana,was injured when she was 3 months old. Her cradle caught on fire.

Dr. Ashraf Bustanji, a Jordanian maxillofacial surgeon who has worked with MSF since 2008, changes the patient’s dressings and examines his injury.

Many of the patients in Amman could not get proper care for their injuries in their home countries as in the case of this 19-year-old Iraqi, who has had several operations to repair a badly wounded jaw.

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IraqA Painful LimboPhotographs by Yuri Kozyrev/Noor

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Patients at the MSF health clinic in the Domiz refugee camp in northeast Iraq, November 6, 2013. The clinic provides primary health services to the camp's approximately 60,000 refugees from Syria.

Dr. Mustapha Khalil, medical coordinator at the MSF health clinic in the Domiz refugee camp in northeast Iraq, tends to a patient.

During a typically busy morning inside the clinic, one staff member checks a man’s hand while another checks a

baby’s breathing.

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Far from friends, school, and their old routines, children must make their own entertainment.

As the population at Domiz has grown rapidly over the past three

years with the arrival of new families and individuals, the

boundaries have spread, tents have proliferated, and resources have

been stretched to their limits.

Ramtha, Jordan

Photographs by Ton KoeneEmergencies Abound

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MSF medical staff perform surgery on a patient in the operating theater of Ramtha hospital.

MSF staff assist Sami Abu Yusufin at Ramtha hospital (Jordan, near the Syrian border) where war wounded are treated.

Surgeon Hayder Alwash (2nd L) consults with his patient, Mohammed Jamus on his rounds with MSF staff at Ramtha hospital in Jordan, near the Syrian border.

This girl, injured in an artillery attack near her home in Syria had to have her leg amputated.

Doctor Ben Gupta plays chess with Malik, one of his patients, in

the ward of Ramtha Hospital.