Syria, the rubble of Idlib relives with parkour

Eleven years of war, hundreds of thousands of dead and a country, Syria, struck in the depths of his heart. It was March 2011 when civilians began calling for an end to the regime led by President Bashar al-Assad. Violence responded to the protests. Then, the war.

Today not much remains of what Syria was before. Almost everything has been destroyed, starting with its artistic heritage. It is enough to scroll through the images of the evacuation of Aleppo, after Assad’s most important victory in 2016, to recall the destruction of the largest Syrian city, considered, with its market, the most important center of the country’s national trade and heritage. Unesco for its ancient part.

The people involved in the conflict today are 13.4 million (Save The Children data) and almost half are children. Since the beginning of 2022, the Russian air force has conducted dozens of air strikes in central Syria against ISIS positions. He reports it the National Observatory for Human Rights in Syria, according to which the attacks took place in the semi-desert area between Homs, Dayr az-Zor and Raqqa.

More rubble. And there, in the midst of so much desolation, there are young people who do not give up. They are the boys of the Tafani Team, parkour professionals originally from Idlib, who every year perform in the deserted and devastated streets of their cities to find their place in the world. And shout out loud that life doesn’t stop. On them Instagram profile they tell of the daily workouts among the rubble that more than anything else, represent for them what remains of their land. Of the life before.

«We jump the world», (Let’s skip the world) reads below a video published in recent months. Is there anything more powerful?

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