Residents of Deraa province in southern Syria turned to purchasing iron extracted from buildings destroyed by the previous bombing, making the profession a resource, as the price of new iron was around 8.5 million Syrian pounds per ton. livelihood for some.
A ton of used iron costs between 1.5 million and 3.5 million pounds ($300 to $400), depending on its quality and age.
Young men from Daraa confirmed that it now costs $300 to buy a ton of iron from a scrap dealer after having to pay $900 for the same amount of iron to build a new building.
According to Enab Baladi, he explained that the cost of the new iron-on three-room building was at least about 50 million Syrian liras, excluding cladding costs.
Young people in the countryside of Deraa started to work by collecting iron from the collapsed buildings, despite the dangers of walls and roofs that endanger the lives of the workers by collapsing on them during the work.
