71 dead in eastern Ghouta in past day

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Israel should topple Asad regime and annex Syria by force

That would mean war with Russia. Syria is Russia's unsinkable aircraft carrier.

 

[Reichsmarschall]

That would mean war with Russia. Syria is Russia's unsinkable aircraft carrier.

Syria Should be a nuclear wasteland

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Syria Should be a nuclear wasteland

Syria built thousands and thousands of free apartment buildings and depleted the environment. It's not far from being that.

 

[500]

well for me hitting a girl on tricycle with missile is terrorism also bombing child playing on the beach and everybody knew who and where did that.

Indiscriminate bombing is terrorism and war crime. In past 7 years there was not a single day when your thugs did not mass murder civilians. If Israel makes some mistake it becames a major news for a week. If Assadist slaughter 20 people a day it wont enter any news at all. Half million murdered directly over million murdered through scorched earth policies, 12 millions ethnically cleansed. U are a biggest genocider of 21th century and biggest murderer of Muslims all time.

by the way my country don't poses any sort of barrel bombs so go and cry somewhere else .

Assadist thugs which u support openly pose with barrel bombs and brag about barrel bombing towns full of civilians. They could not do it without ur massive support.

https://twitter.com/x/status/965654997579988992

https://twitter.com/x/status/965579277000478720

In addition u provide them unguided Falaq rockets which are not different from barrel bombs except being launched from ground launchers. Same Falaq technology was used to gas civilians in Ghouta.

 

[Ceylal]

@500..It does look like your calculator’s keys stick..Time for a new one..Walmart has a cheap version that works well...

 

[mike2000 is back]

Assadist so called "Tiger force" proudly report how they bomb towns with barrel bombs:

https://twitter.com/x/status/965654997579988992

https://twitter.com/x/status/965580295239094272

https://twitter.com/x/status/965579277000478720

Results:

I already posted major differences between Israel and Assad:

1) Casualties. In 30 years of intifadas were killed some 10 K Palestinians. In 7 years of civil war in Syria were killed half million directly, additional million was killed through scorched earth policy (life expectancy in Syria dropped by 20 years and another 12 millions were ethnically cleansed.

2) Israel wants peaceful solution. Israel retreated from Gaza, and gave to Palestinians full autonomy there. Israel gave autonomy in West Bank population centers. Israel offered Palestinians a state (which they rejected).

2 million Alawis on the other hand want to rule with iron fist over 22 million Syria. Everyone who refuses to bow to Assad they call terrorist and slaughter and displace millions. Since Syrians refuse to slaughter own brothers they invited mercenary thugs from all over the world to slaughter them.

3) Israel respects cease of fires. Since last round in 2014 (which was initiated by Hamas) its calm in Gaza. Assadists on the other hand never respected cease of fire even for one day. They carpet bomb daily in Ghouta and Idlib which are in agreed deescalation zones.

4) Israel allows massive humanitarian aid in Gaza on daily basis. Every day some 100 truckloads enter Gaza from Israel. On the other hand during siege of Daraya for example, Assadists allowed only ONE humanitarian convoy in 5 years! More over they stole most of the goods from that convoy. I am not talking that Gaza borders Egypt, so they can enter anything they wish from there.

Doesnt matter Israel is with the evil West while Syria/Russia are against the West. So who cares about that.

 

[Solomon2]

Five-day assault on Syria enclave kills more than 400 civilians
Merkel decries 'massacre,' rights groups 'sickened' after indiscriminate bombing in Ghouta kills 95 children, targets hospitals, denies victims first aid
By HASAN MOHAMEDToday, 10:37 pm 0

• 
  Hala, 9, receives treatment at a makeshift hospital following Syrian government bombardments on rebel-held town of Saqba, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / AMER ALMOHIBANY)
  
  
  DOUMA, Syria (AFP) — Fresh bombardment on Eastern Ghouta killed dozens Thursday, bringing the number of dead civilians in a five-day assault by the Syrian government to more than 400.
  
  Mounting calls for a humanitarian truce in one of the bloodiest episodes of Syria’s seven-year conflict went unheeded as 46 more people were killed by airstrikes and rocket fire.
  
  Regime-backer Russia said there was “no agreement” at the UN Security Council on a 30-day ceasefire for Syria and presented amendments to a draft resolution that would allow aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians from besieged Eastern Ghouta.
  
  As diplomats wrangled over a UN vote, people huddled in basements while government forces pounded the enclave with rockets and bombs, turning towns into fields of ruins and even hitting hospitals.
  
  Aid group Doctors Without Borders said 13 of the facilities it supports in Eastern Ghouta were damaged or destroyed in three days, leaving remaining staff with very little to treat the hundreds of wounded brought to them every day.
  
  In the hospital mortuary in Douma, the main town in the enclave just east of Damascus, bodies wrapped in white shrouds were already lining up on the floor, two of them children.
  
  
  
  
  The bodies of Syrian civilians, including a baby (R), lie wrapped in shrouds on the floor of a makeshift clinic following Syrian government bombardments in Douma, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Hamza AL-AJWEH)
  
• Nowhere safe
  “Five days of airstrikes and intense artillery fire by the regime and its Russian ally have killed 403 civilians, including 95 children,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
  
  Morning rain appeared to initially keep warplanes away on Thursday but the sky cleared by midday and jets, some of them Russian according to the Observatory, soon returned.
  
  Russia has so far denied direct involvement in the assault on Ghouta but the pro-government Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reported on Thursday that Russian warplanes and advisers had joined the battle.
  
  Regime and allied forces have been massing around the enclave, in which an estimated 400,000 people live, ahead of a likely ground offensive to flush out holdout Islamist and jihadist groups.
  
  
  
  
  Civil Defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, carry a wounded man into a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma, following air strikes by regime forces on the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 20, 2018. (Hamza Al-Ajweh/AFP)
  
  
• “We are 14 women and children living in a room that is 10 feet wide, with no toilet and nowhere to wash,” said 53-year-old Umm Abdo, who joined a large group in the basement of a school in Arbin.
  
  The brief respite provided by the rain on Thursday encouraged some residents to venture out of their basements and shelters, to buy food, check on their property, or inquire about their relatives and neighbors.
  
  In the town of Hamouria, a queue had formed outside a shop as starving residents tried to stock up, but another rocket sowed panic and sent everybody back to their shelters.
  
  In Douma, a young boy tried to peddle lighters on the street, but rocket fire quickly forced him to scamper back to cover.
  
  Powerless
  An AFP correspondent saw rescuers known as the “White Helmets” forced to stop their efforts to retrieve a wounded woman from the rubble of a collapsed home when airstrikes resumed.
  
  When they ventured back to the site, the woman was dead.
  
  The indiscriminate bombardment and the strikes on medical facilities sparked global outrage but few concrete options emerged to stop the bloodletting.
  
  
  
  
  Smoke billows following Syrian government bombardments on Kafr Batna, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / AMER ALMOHIBANY)
  
  
• “The killing of children, the destruction of hospitals — all that amounts to a massacre that must be condemned and which must be countered with a clear no,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
  
  The aid community voiced its frustration as the world appeared once again powerless to stop a conflict that has left almost 350,000 dead in seven years and caused destruction rarely seen since World War II.
  
  Humanitarian agencies are “sickened that no matter how many times they’ve raised the alarm, taken the step of speaking out, called on the Security Council to do something, the violence and brutality will sink to new lows,” said the Syria INGO Regional Forum.
  
  Russia says ‘no agreement’
  At the UN, Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said sponsors Sweden and Kuwait were requesting a vote on the ceasefire plan even though they are “fully aware there is no agreement on it.”
  
  
  
  
  A picture taken from a government-controlled area on the outskirts of Harasta on the northeastern suburbs of Damascus, on February 21, 2018, shows smoke rising from areas targeted by Syrian army shelling in the towns of Arbin and Harasta. (AFP PHOTO)
  
  
• The Security Council needs to reach a “feasible” agreement on a ceasefire and not take a decision that would be “populist” and “severed from reality,” he said.
  
  Talks for a deal between the regime and the armed groups controlling Ghouta appear to have stalled.
  
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a press conference in Belgrade that jihadist fighters in Ghouta had rejected an evacuation deal.
  
  “A few days ago, our military in Syria suggested to the fighters that they withdraw peacefully from Eastern Ghouta, like the evacuation of fighters and their families that was organized in East Aleppo,” he said.
  
  The head of the defense committee in Russia’s lower house of parliament said Thursday that more than 200 new types of weapons were tested as part of his country’s military support to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
  
  “It’s not an accident that today they are coming to us from many directions to purchase our weapons, including countries that are not our allies,” he said.

“Today our military-industrial complex made our army look in a way we can be proud of,” he said.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Five-day assault on Syria enclave kills more than 400 civilians
Merkel decries 'massacre,' rights groups 'sickened' after indiscriminate bombing in Ghouta kills 95 children, targets hospitals, denies victims first aid
By HASAN MOHAMEDToday, 10:37 pm 0

• 
  Hala, 9, receives treatment at a makeshift hospital following Syrian government bombardments on rebel-held town of Saqba, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / AMER ALMOHIBANY)
  
  
  DOUMA, Syria (AFP) — Fresh bombardment on Eastern Ghouta killed dozens Thursday, bringing the number of dead civilians in a five-day assault by the Syrian government to more than 400.
  
  Mounting calls for a humanitarian truce in one of the bloodiest episodes of Syria’s seven-year conflict went unheeded as 46 more people were killed by airstrikes and rocket fire.
  
  Regime-backer Russia said there was “no agreement” at the UN Security Council on a 30-day ceasefire for Syria and presented amendments to a draft resolution that would allow aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians from besieged Eastern Ghouta.
  
  As diplomats wrangled over a UN vote, people huddled in basements while government forces pounded the enclave with rockets and bombs, turning towns into fields of ruins and even hitting hospitals.
  
  Aid group Doctors Without Borders said 13 of the facilities it supports in Eastern Ghouta were damaged or destroyed in three days, leaving remaining staff with very little to treat the hundreds of wounded brought to them every day.
  
  In the hospital mortuary in Douma, the main town in the enclave just east of Damascus, bodies wrapped in white shrouds were already lining up on the floor, two of them children.
  
  
  
  
  The bodies of Syrian civilians, including a baby (R), lie wrapped in shrouds on the floor of a makeshift clinic following Syrian government bombardments in Douma, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Hamza AL-AJWEH)
  
• Nowhere safe
  “Five days of airstrikes and intense artillery fire by the regime and its Russian ally have killed 403 civilians, including 95 children,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
  
  Morning rain appeared to initially keep warplanes away on Thursday but the sky cleared by midday and jets, some of them Russian according to the Observatory, soon returned.
  
  Russia has so far denied direct involvement in the assault on Ghouta but the pro-government Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reported on Thursday that Russian warplanes and advisers had joined the battle.
  
  Regime and allied forces have been massing around the enclave, in which an estimated 400,000 people live, ahead of a likely ground offensive to flush out holdout Islamist and jihadist groups.
  
  
  
  
  Civil Defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, carry a wounded man into a makeshift hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma, following air strikes by regime forces on the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 20, 2018. (Hamza Al-Ajweh/AFP)
  
  
• “We are 14 women and children living in a room that is 10 feet wide, with no toilet and nowhere to wash,” said 53-year-old Umm Abdo, who joined a large group in the basement of a school in Arbin.
  
  The brief respite provided by the rain on Thursday encouraged some residents to venture out of their basements and shelters, to buy food, check on their property, or inquire about their relatives and neighbors.
  
  In the town of Hamouria, a queue had formed outside a shop as starving residents tried to stock up, but another rocket sowed panic and sent everybody back to their shelters.
  
  In Douma, a young boy tried to peddle lighters on the street, but rocket fire quickly forced him to scamper back to cover.
  
  Powerless
  An AFP correspondent saw rescuers known as the “White Helmets” forced to stop their efforts to retrieve a wounded woman from the rubble of a collapsed home when airstrikes resumed.
  
  When they ventured back to the site, the woman was dead.
  
  The indiscriminate bombardment and the strikes on medical facilities sparked global outrage but few concrete options emerged to stop the bloodletting.
  
  
  
  
  Smoke billows following Syrian government bombardments on Kafr Batna, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / AMER ALMOHIBANY)
  
  
• “The killing of children, the destruction of hospitals — all that amounts to a massacre that must be condemned and which must be countered with a clear no,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
  
  The aid community voiced its frustration as the world appeared once again powerless to stop a conflict that has left almost 350,000 dead in seven years and caused destruction rarely seen since World War II.
  
  Humanitarian agencies are “sickened that no matter how many times they’ve raised the alarm, taken the step of speaking out, called on the Security Council to do something, the violence and brutality will sink to new lows,” said the Syria INGO Regional Forum.
  
  Russia says ‘no agreement’
  At the UN, Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said sponsors Sweden and Kuwait were requesting a vote on the ceasefire plan even though they are “fully aware there is no agreement on it.”
  
  
  
  
  A picture taken from a government-controlled area on the outskirts of Harasta on the northeastern suburbs of Damascus, on February 21, 2018, shows smoke rising from areas targeted by Syrian army shelling in the towns of Arbin and Harasta. (AFP PHOTO)
  
  
• The Security Council needs to reach a “feasible” agreement on a ceasefire and not take a decision that would be “populist” and “severed from reality,” he said.
  
  Talks for a deal between the regime and the armed groups controlling Ghouta appear to have stalled.
  
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a press conference in Belgrade that jihadist fighters in Ghouta had rejected an evacuation deal.
  
  “A few days ago, our military in Syria suggested to the fighters that they withdraw peacefully from Eastern Ghouta, like the evacuation of fighters and their families that was organized in East Aleppo,” he said.
  
  The head of the defense committee in Russia’s lower house of parliament said Thursday that more than 200 new types of weapons were tested as part of his country’s military support to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
  
  “It’s not an accident that today they are coming to us from many directions to purchase our weapons, including countries that are not our allies,” he said.

“Today our military-industrial complex made our army look in a way we can be proud of,” he said.

Germany lost millions of men in WW1 and WW2. Germany has no right to judge numbers.

 

[Yaseen1]

Actually media and u.n is controlled by u.s .they never show picture of children killed by u.s and nato bombing in afghanistan and other countries but always highlight those killed by russia and syrian airstrikes to gain world support against russia

 

[500]

Actually media and u.n is controlled by u.s .they never show picture of children killed by u.s and nato bombing in afghanistan and other countries but always highlight those killed by russia and syrian airstrikes to gain world support against russia

Russia commits real genocide:

Afghan genocide:

Syrian genocide:

Now they started to literally burn civilians alive in Ghouta:

Thermobaric bombs:

Termite bombs:

 

[Yaseen1]

Russia commits real genocide:

Afghan genocide:

Syrian genocide:

Now they started to literally burn civilians alive in Ghouta:

Thermobaric bombs:

Termite bombs:

u.s had used moab in afghanistan and alot of innocent people killed

 

[500]

u.s had used moab in afghanistan and alot of innocent people killed

Moab was used against caves in empty mountains, Russians use thermobaric bombs on cities.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Moab was used against caves in empty mountains, Russians use thermobaric bombs on cities.

America dropped nukes on Japanese cities. What's your point?

 

[Timur]

America dropped nukes on Japanese cities. What's your point?

thats a good one.. so I can sleep well and justify themobaric bombs on children.. maybe some day, if things get worse, SA escalates the thing and US helps them, iran will see themobaric bombs on tehran.. and than we can use the same logic "amarica nuked japan" but some ppl are immun to empathy...

 

[Solomon2]

Syrian Rescuers Pay a Tragic Price
White Helmets and their families figure among the dead in regime’s attacks on rebel-held enclave


Syria's White Helmet Rescuers Capture Destruction in Eastern Ghouta
[video]
Cameras worn by Syria’s White Helmet rescuers document the government forces' attacks on rebel-held Eastern Ghouta. Photo: Mohammed Badra/EPA-EFE Photo: Mohammed Badra/EPA-EFE
By Raja Abdulrahim
Feb. 23, 2018 5:30 a.m. ET


The Syrian regime’s relentless assault on the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus has spared little, targeting not only hospitals and markets, but also medical rescuers and their families.

Residents and medical workers describe the offensive, backed by Russian airstrikes, as a war of extermination meant to bring the suburb to its knees and force its unconditional surrender. According to the White Helmets rescue group, the sustained attack has already killed more than 250 people since it began Monday morning, including one of their own.

“They are targeting the rescue workers and the hospitals and the emergency equipment and ambulances,” said Sirag Mahmoud, a spokesman with the White Helmets rescuers. “The main goal right now for the Syrian regime is to destroy the civilian infrastructure inside Ghouta.”

The White Helmets

✔@SyriaCivilDef

Civil defense teams working to evacuate the injured civilians after another aerial attack with 13 airstrikes on #Douma city in #Eastern_Ghouta today.#SaveGhouta

7:20 AM - Feb 22, 2018​

Cameras worn by Syria’s White Helmet rescuers document firsthand the daily horrors of the blitz, as barrel bombs and rockets rain down and bloodied victims emerge zombielike from clouds of dust. They are recording deaths that hit close to home, those of their fellow White Helmets and even their own loved ones pulled from under the rubble.

Firas Jumaa, a White Helmets rescuer, was killed on Tuesday in a so-called double-tap attack: one with a second airstrike meant to target rescue workers and ambulances. Such attacks have claimed the lives of four rescue workers in Ghouta in the past two months, according to the White Helmets.

Ghouta, which has 400,000 people and encompasses three cities and 14 towns, has been under military siege for five years, cut off from access to proper medical equipment and other necessities. President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers deny targeting civilian infrastructure, but the strikes have intensified as the regime says it has focused on rebels fighting the government.

Rebels have in recent days fired a barrage of mortars onto regime-controlled Damascus neighborhoods, killing more than a dozen people, according to residents and Syrian state media.

As that rebel assault began, Suhail al-Hasan, the commander of the regime’s Tiger Forces, threatened to bring down “hell” upon Ghouta. “You will not find a rescuer and if you are rescued it will be with water like boiling oil,” he warned, in an address to fighters posted in a video backed by upbeat music.

A White Helmets center in the city of Douma, one of the largest in the rebel-held area, was destroyed in an airstrike Thursday morning. No one was killed in that attack.

Sameer Salim, a member of the White Helmets rescue forces, sitting in the rubble of his home in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta earlier this month. Responding to an attack that flattened his home, he found his own mother dead under the rubble. PHOTO: ABDULMONAM EASSA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

“Every morning when we leave we don’t expect to return home or we expect to return and not find our own children alive,” said rescuer Sameer Salim. “At any moment we expect to come home and find our homes demolished over the heads of our families.”

Earlier this month, before the latest wave of bombardment, Mr. Salim’s team rushed to the scene of a regime rocket attack. When they followed the column of smoke, the demolished home it led them to was his own.

Outside the collapsed two-story building, Mr. Salim called out for his father and mother, his nieces and sister-in-law. No one answered. But once he began pulling aside pieces of rubble, he found his 23-day-old nephew, still alive. Then he found his father and other members of his family, wounded but alive.

In another room he found his 77-year-old mother, her body and face pancaked under the fallen roof. He checked her pulse and pupils. She was dead.

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For 12 minutes the father of five helped free his mother’s body from the rubble, a process made more difficult given a lack of advanced equipment in Ghouta.

Mr. Salim’s helmet camera captured the moments he pleaded into his walkie-talkie for equipment to get her out: “Oh mother, forgive me,” he said, his voice trembling. “Bring the jacks quickly—my mother is under the rubble. For God’s sake come quickly. Oh mother, I’m saving the other people but I couldn’t save you.”

The responders know they could die at any moment, Mr. Salim said. Much of the population has been driven underground in sparse basements and dugout bunkers, but the rescuers race above ground from one attack site to another.

Another video recorded from a rescuer’s helmet cam on Tuesday and posted on Twitter showed the scene immediately after an airstrike. The streets were blanketed in gray smoke as rescuers combed the flaming debris.

“Take the ones who are alive,” the wearer said to his colleagues. “Are they dead?”

A moment later another airstrike ignited the street in a ball of flame. The camera swung wildly left and right.

“Go, go,” he warned others. “Just go.”

—A special correspondent in Damascus contributed to this article.