Thread by @Syria_Irl

Trailer for documentary the Cave, the story of a hospital in East Ghouta bombed over and over by Assad and Russia who continue to do this NOW in #Idlib

#NotATarget #StopBombingHospitals @forsamafilm

Underground hospital in Eastern Ghouta was bombed many times by Russia and Assad

Now this is the subject of the important documentary the Cave

Massive evidence exists of these war crimes which Assad Russia continue NOW in #Idlib

thedailybeast.com/the-cave-my-ho…

'I know what it’s like to experience such an attack, having lived through many during 6 years as a pediatrician at the Cave, an underground hospital in East Al Ghouta. On Sept 28 2015 Russian warplanes bombed the Cave, killing 3 nurses 2 injuring two, including my friend Samaher'

'As manager of the Cave I shored up the infrastructure to withstand bombings. We knew another attack could come at any time. Attacks multiplied in frequency & brutality as Assad Russia closed in on Ghouta. During our final month, we were hit 5 or 6 times by barrel bombs'

'The list of Assad’s war crimes is long. With the help of his allies Russia & Iran, he has committed these atrocities out in the open while the world looked on. In the five-year siege of Al Ghouta, civilians were deliberately starved, deprived of medicine, and repeatedly bombed'

'I was in East Ghouta in August 2013 when rockets loaded with sarin gas were dropped while people slept. I never imagined the government would use chemical weapons to kill civilians. I realized they wanted to kill everybody in Ghouta—& anyone in Syria who wanted freedom'

@AmaniBallour
'What concerns me now is the safety of Syrian Arab & Kurdish citizens in the north, especially women & children who always pay the highest price in wars. So far some 160,000 people have been displaced, many of whom were already refugees from other parts of Syria'

@AmaniBallour
'With winter coming the situation is even more urgent.Every winter refugee camps are flooded with water & mud, tents become uninhabitable. Camps in northwest were already overcrowded & miserable & are hardly equipped to take in more homeless, traumatized civilians'

@AmaniBallour
'International community cd help hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians who will soon be freezing,cd build houses for shelter. In no way shd those houses be considerd anything but temporary,its long past time for Syrians to be able to return to their own homes'