MIDDLE EAST EYE (20/12/2018)
Animals rescued from Aleppo, Mosul
When he was eight years old, Loz was evacuated from Aleppo. It was July 2017, seven months after Syria’s second-largest city finally fell to the forces of Bashar al-Assad’s government.
While he soon found a new home on a hill cloaked with olive trees in the north of Jordan, Loz could not forget Syria.
In those first days in Jordan, he would run and hide every time he heard trucks or helicopters, still scarred by the explosions and gunfire that riddled the city of his birth.
Today, Loz is still wary, but he is less afraid. That he was even able to get out of Aleppo alive was down to a non-profit organisation called Four Paws International.
Loz is an Asian black bear, and his new neighbours at the al-Ma’wa wildlife sanctuary in the Jerash governorate include a number of other animals rescued from Magic World Zoo, on the outskirts of Aleppo.