Thread by @Rsherlock

1/ The chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, finds Syria’s air force responsible for a chlorine gas attack on Douma in 2018 that killed 43 people.
I went to northern Syrian with @lalarian to hear from survivors of the attack for @NPR npr.org/2018/04/23/605…

2/ #Douma survivor Amani told us: "When you're in a chemical attack, you start suffocating. You're just dying to breathe."
Some anti-regime activists said the deaths in Douma were from a nerve agent. The testimony we gathered inside Syria suggested it was #chlorine gas.

3/ Seem told us billows of poison chlorine gas came into her home. "All I cared about was hugging my children and throwing water on their faces." And she said, "we smelled the chlorine, and then there was also bombs." npr.org/2018/04/26/605…

4/ This attack prompted then president, Donald Trump, to hit the Syrian regime with airstrikes in the single biggest military action against Damascus by the US in the course of the war. npr.org/2018/04/14/602…

5/ Though less deadly than nerve agents, the use of chlorine gas as a chemical weapon is still a breach of international law. The Syrian regime has a long history of use.

5/ In 2014 @HamishDBG and I investigated allegations of chlorine gas attacks on #Talmenes and #KafrZita. We worked a very brave source who brought soil samples from the sites of the attacks that tested positive for chlorine gas.

6/ We also gathered eye witness testimony of the attacks, as well as medical files, including x-rays showing the damage to caused to the lungs 16-year old Maryuma Hashash who died in the Talmenes attack. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… #Syria

7/ The @OPCW later confirmed the findings of our investigation, showing the continued "systematic" use of chemical weapons against civilian populations in Syria. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…