Tomas Saeed and his wife Hanna Safaa were living in Deir ez-Zor with their three daughters Rose, Mirna and Jessy. The father, Tomas, worked in the agricultural sector and had been able to acquire an apartment by means of a loan from the bank.
Mouhtaz Alkazem and his wife Reema Kougegame lived in Deir ez-Zor where they both worked as agronomy engineers.
Since 1981 Rouaida and her husband lived in Jobar, an outlying suburb situated to the east of Damascus.
Ibrahim Alnaiemi and Hanadi
Ibrahim worked as a violinist in the suburb of Al Fardous in Aleppo with his wife Hanadi and their four children, two girls aged 17 and 12 and two boys 24 and 5.
Mahmoud and his wife were living with their four sons in one of the old suburbs of Aleppo.
Ihab Azizi and his wife Rania Aswad have two children. One is two years old and the other is 20 days old, having just been born.
Zahida and her husband Faisal Alkhaled were living with their family in Suran in the Hama district.