1/5- 5 years since the chemical attack by the Assad regime on #Saraqib, #Idlib. On February 4, 2018, helicopters dropped 2 cylinders loaded with toxic chlorine gas on a neighborhood of the city, injuring several people including #WhiteHelmets volunteers during initial response. 2/5- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons @OPCW has confirmed the Assad regime's responsibility for the attack through its Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) report from April 12, 2021.

1/5- 9 years after the Assad regime's accession in the Chemical Weapons Convention, it continues to obstruct the work of the @OPCW with gaps/contradictions that inhibit the declaration of the program as accurate and complete according to the monthly report of the Director-General 2/5- The Assad regime continues to practice systematic disinformation with the support of its Russian ally to disrupt the work of @OPCW, mislead public opinion and prevent the course of justice, but they failed to change the facts established on the ground and in reports issued

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 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.

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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.

"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."

"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."

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."

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.

1- Mohammed, a White Helmet volunteer from #KhanSheikhun center southern #Idlib, has recovered and left hospital after a deadly Russian and Regime double tap attack which took two of his teammates, Omar and Ali. 2- Mohammed has gave all he can in that empty city, and has taken on the task of feeding the hungry cats that were left alone among the rubble of the destroyed houses, after the heavy bombing campaign which displaced all civilians. The cats, however, remained.

1) Heavy aerial bombardment by Assad and Russia continues on the towns and villages of rural #Idlib and #Hama in a war of genocide thats being played out in full view of a willfully blind world. #Syria 2) 18 dead, including 7 children and 6 women. 32 were wounded, mostly women and children, as a result of the continued barbaric bombardment for the 32nd day by Russian warplanes and the regime's forces.

1) 14 civilians were killed, and dozens injured, in 24 hours in a new escalation by the "Russian guarantor" and the Syrian regime on the countryside of #Idlib and #Hama, after the failure of the meeting of Astana to reach any agreement in the 12th round 2) The Russian strikes started yesterday, targeting the outskirts of the village of Almaouzrah in #Idlib, to expand the shelling of the civilian areas in western #Hama, causing the first massacre in #Tal_Hawash, which killed five civilians.

Did you know: #Russia has never vetoed a UNSC resolution that aimed at protecting #Syria'n civilians?! #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay Did you know: Russia and the Syrian regime have never killed Syrian civilians? They have saved the lives of more than 116,000 civilians, as the White Helmets did? #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay