page_title: Al-Hatab Square
section_title: Recent developments
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Hatab Square / Recent developments
caption_attribution_description: English: Sahat al Hatab Jdeideh Alepa 2017 after backfilling craters
context_page_description: Al-Hatab Square is one of the oldest squares in the Syrian city of Aleppo. It is located in the old Jdeydeh Quarter, outside the historic walls of the Ancient City of Aleppo. The square suffered catastrophic damage during the Syrian civil war.
context_section_description: Sahat Al Hatab suffered catastrophic damage during the Syrian civil war that began in Aleppo in 2012. A series of huge underground explosions conducted by the armed opposition under the square in April 2015 devastated it along with the surrounding historic buildings.
  Al Hatab Square, and its al-Jdayde (Jdeideh) Quarter, found itself on the front line from the beginning in what became a war of attrition between combatant forces.
  The area, like much of the old city, remained a closed militarized zone for most of this period and was heavily damaged from fighting. Official damage assessments conducted after the evacuation of rebel forces determined Sahat al Hatab to have been "highly affected" by civil war fighting.
  While the Jdayde Hotel along with other buildings surrounding the square were mostly destroyed, the craters on it were backfilled and its surface levelled during 2017.  In 2018 further remediation work was undertaken in the area.
caption: Al Hatab Square as seen in 2017 after backfilling of craters
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