On this day five years ago, the Assad regime launched an aerial chemical attack on #Altaminah city, north of #Hama, followed by two other chemical attacks on the 25th and 30th of March. #WhiteHelmets
The OPCW's Identification Team concluded in its Final Report issued on April 8, 2020, that regime forces used gas multiple times when attacking Altaminah city. The attacks on the 24th, 25th, and 30th of March 2017 were carried out by Assad's regime forces, acc to the report.
The report explained the strategic nature of those three attacks, stating that these attacks were launched by orders of the highest-ranking Syrian regime forces.
Although it has been 5 years since the attacks and 2 years since the final report of the Identification Team of OPCW was published, the regime has yet to be held accountable for their evident crimes. The international community must take an action to hold the regime accountable.
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The Syrian regime continues to obstruct OPCW's work.
Syrian regime's declaration of its chemical weapons program cannot be considered accurate due to gaps, inconsistencies, and discrepancies, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs told Security Council.
According to Ms. Nakamitsu, the Syrian regime has submitted 17 amendments and several supplements to its initial declaration. So far, 20 of the 24 outstanding issues remain unresolved.
Hundreds of innocent people were killed silently and without blood, the majority were children by the deadly chemical attacks of the Assad's regime (according to reports of UN Commissions of Inquiry).
[THREAD] 1) Astonishing and shameful information on the progress made regarding investigating the use and eliminating chemical weapons in #Syria as outlined in the latest report issued by the Director-General of the #OPCW on Friday.
2) The regime continues to obstruct investigations by denying access to committees & destroying evidence; Claiming 2 chlorine cylinders that were used in the #Douma chemical attack (April 7th 2018) got destroyed in an attack on a declared former CWPF inside a military facility.
3) The location where the Syrian regime claimed the cylinders were destroyed is 60km away from the original site where the cylinders were stored and inspected. The report also states that the regime moved the cylinders without notifying the org. despite the warning not to do so.
"December 17, 2019, is a day engraved in my soul because I lost everything most precious in the world to me." I am Anwar Hamidi, and this is my story in which I lost my three daughters and my wife to an attack by the regime forces on our house in #Bdama in #Idlib.
"I have been a search and rescue volunteer with the #WhiteHelmets since 2014. I have saved many, many people for the love of humanity. I never imagined I could not save my own children and wife, pieces of my heart and soul."
Tasneem was 9 years old, she was the eldest, in which I saw a responsible young lady. Raneem, our middle daughter, was 6 years old - she was the smart and kind one, and our baby Haneen, only 4 years old, who was so loved and spoiled.
"Yet for all the lives we have saved, death is beating us. For every Syrian that we’ve saved, there are five that we’ve lost" .From @RaedAlSaleh3, Head of Syria's White Helmets speak to a US Senate Committee on 'Nine Years of Brutality: Assad's Campaign Against the Syrian People'
"Since Russia’s intervention in 2015, the number of internally displaced people has doubled to 8 million; the relentless aerial bombardment and use of siege to retake areas like #Aleppo and #EasternGhouta has forced millions to “evacuate” to #Idlib. Now there isnt another Idlib."
"Raising funds to alleviate the suffering does not work any better than giving painkillers to a cancer patient. How much longer will the international community pursue this strategy before concluding it doesn’t work?"
Idlib today faces a humanitarian catastrophe, perhaps the largest ever if Russia & China block the decision to deliver humanitarian aid to #Syria again. The head of the White Helmets along with 18 civil society organizations in Syria warns today during the conference in Istanbul.
.@RaedAlSaleh3 "Russia and Syrian regime committed dozens of massacres and war crimes during the year 2019, and they used a strategy of war against civilians by targeting their installations and infrastructure in order to displace them from their homes to the north of #Syria."
"Our teams documented the killing of 1,830 people, including 450 children, 333 women, while we lost 20 volunteers from our teams by the double-tab airstrikes. While our teams managed to rescue 4,990 people, including 1,146 children, 846 women from the rubble of death."
1- It would be the last few minutes of childhood as they knew it. Noor and her brother Salem, along with dad, and his aunt were bringing Gramma home from the hospital. They would get food from the market next. But the regime warplanes hit exploding their lives wide open.
2- Nour immediately lost her father Ahmed, her grandmother, and grandmother's sister, their blood splattering her face and that of her brother, while they remained in shock and horror at what had become of their world.
3- Ahmed, Amer, Jamila, Mariam, Abdel Hamid Al-Subaie, Hassan, Abdel-Khalek, Abdo, and Nasser, all of these regular people were innocent civilians, either market vendors or shoppers, all murdered for the crime of seeking food or selling in it.