Imagine Waiting 6 Hours To Buy A Couple Of Bags Of Bread

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Syrians buy bread at a shop in the town of Binnish in the country’s northwestern Idlib province in June. Nowadays, people say they’re waiting up to six hours in line for a meager government bread ration.





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Additional reporting by Nada Homsi

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