Wounds will never heal

This story is about Syrians who came to Jordan wounded and injured  as victims due to the war in Syria.

This story aims to strengthen the social cohesion among Syrian refugees and Jordanians, especially that refugees had to face a wave of hatred and had been accused of being the main cause of the country's economic decline. I tried to transfer part of the sufferings of the refugees, who are usually absent from the coverage of the media in Jordan.
The essence of the story is the fact that scars left by war, usually do not go away, suffering is not only physical for them, indeed.
The number of Syrians who arrived in Jordan with war wounds is estimated at 60,000, but access to them has always been difficult because the Jordanian government usually treats them as potential terrorists because they believe that the injured are usually members of  military groups fighting on Syrian soil.

Younis suffered an injury that led directly to amputation of his right foot and exposed half of his right bodies to injuries that led to the need of immediate assistance in Jordan. So far, has undergone more than 30 surgeries and his treatment has not ended.
Also, he lost sight in his right eye, and now he only sees with 25% in his left eye. He wears these glasses to cover the injury.

Maryam, Younis’s daughter and the only survivor of his family. Younis has not seen her for six months now. She lives with her family in Al-Zaatari camp. Younis says: “I can’t see her, I get tired; whenever I see her she keeps asking where is my mom? And I can’t answer”. 

Dahham, a 20-year-old university student, was injured when he returned from his university in Latakia after an explosive barrel fell on him. He says: “I passed out then I found myself in Jordan”.
Dahham's entire left arm and part of his foot were gripped, and so far he has undergone about 6 operations and is still in need for some other operations.

Dahham came to Jordan alone and left his entire family behind; he misses them, his father in particular. Dahham paints his father's image sometimes. He still can paint even if he lost his hand.

Shahira, 7-year-old, her grandmother was killed in front of her when a shell landed in her house. A group of shrapnel entered her body. She was taken to Jordan for treatment. A group of operations carried out to extract the shrapnel scattered in her body.
Shahira's father says that his daughter still believes that her grandmother has not died and that what happened is just a dream and that her grandmother is waiting for her in Syria. The pictures are for them in a hospital in Amman waiting for her third operation to get the shrapnel extracted.

Salem Abdel Nabi, 56, worked as a mechanic in a village in Damascus. A shell hit him while he was working. He was saved to a hospital belonging to the Syrian regime, but he fled with the help of a nurse because doctors and security men believed his son was leading an opposition faction.

Abdel Nabi has injuries around most of his body, he lost part of his left hand, and still holds the phone that was in the front pocket of his shirt when the shell fell on him. H still believes that the phone saved his life because the fragment could have settled in his chest instead of the phone.

While we were in a hospital in Amman preparing for this story, a Syrian woman arrived to complete her treatment, accompanying some security men. She convinced the security men to allow us to meet her to let her be part of the story. The security men demanded not to publish her image. Her name is Ibtisam and a shell fell on her, she was saved to a hospital in Arramtha, she had an operation and amputated part of her right leg. She said about Dar’a – where she comes from: “It is full of dust, all the buildings are ashes on the ground”.

Not everyone survives the war; many of the injured in Syria have died, even after arriving to Jordan, including Talal, Umm Talal’s eldest son who was 21 when he arrived in Jordan with a direct shell, spent three months in hospital before he died.