1/ 🚨 We’ve waited too long. WE WANT THEM NOW. 🚨 The release of detainees in #Syria must come with immediate action to locate, document, and protect all those still imprisoned. The @ICRC @ICRC_sy must act NOW to fulfill its mandate. Here’s what’s needed: 🧵
@FamiliesSyria 2/ Detainee Safety Comes First:
There must be immediate documentation of the names and conditions of freed detainees. Their safe transfer to secure locations where they can reunite with their families MUST be a priority.
@FamiliesSyria
@ICRC @ICRC_sy @ICRC_ar

1/ “For six years I’ve been working to document chemical attacks and hearing testimonies and survivors’ stories,” said Radi the coordinator of the Hazardous Materials file @SyriaCivilDef, “each story I hear evokes feelings of great pain and grief.”
#donotsuffocatetruth 2/ “On 8 August 2013 at 2am most of Zamalka’s residents had gone to bed, many not realizing this would be their last night [alive]. One survivor told me: ‘I don't know how many people died… there were so many families asleep when the strike happened…they never woke up.’”

🌍 Ten ways disinformation has had an impact in the real world🌍
Every day #disinformation permeates into our lives, from Covid-19 conspiracies to false claims about the war in Ukraine. But what impact does this online disinformation have in the real world and on real people? To uncover the human and political costs of the disinformation campaign around #Syria @ISDglobal and The Syria Campaign did the most comprehensive deep dive into Syrian disinformation to date. We found that:

LAUNCHED: Our report with @ISDglobal ‘#DeadlyDisinformation: How online conspiracies about Syria cause real-world harm’ reveals how the failure to stop lies spreading online about Syrian conflict has devastating impacts on people’s lives & govt's policies deadlydisinformation.org The report reveals year-by-year Twitter data on the systematic & hateful #disinformation that targeted Syrian human rights defenders, @SyriaCivilDef, doctors & war crimes victims, sometimes endangering their lives- & how govt's & social media companies are failing to stop attacks

The new @UNCoISyria report on Syria is a catalogue of war crimes, many of them committed in the last 12 months. THREAD
ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HR… It is a stain on the world’s conscience that between July 2020 and June 2021
❗️Russia and the Syrian regime continued to attack hospitals and kill civilians throughout Syria’s COVID crisis;
❗️former detainees reported hundreds of deaths in Assad’s security branches;

So much has happened in #Syria in the past week – world leaders must end their silence in the face of terrifying developments and the suffering of civilians across the country. Turning a blind eye to all these atrocities only gives the regime a green light to commit more. THREAD #Daraa al-Balad has seen its autonomy crushed in the past days following 79 days of siege & heavy attack. Citizens now face additional military checkpoints, house searches & the threat of arrest for expressing opposition to the regime. 38k people remain displaced from their homes

Attacks on civilians in #Daraa al-Balad intensified this weekend w/ reports of casualties & heavy shelling. The regime has besieged the city since June, strangling food, medicine & electric to over 50,000 people, in retaliation to local criticism of Assad's sham ‘re-election’ 1/5 Ceasefire negotiations are in peril after the Assad regime refused to recognize peoples’ right to demonstrate and express their opinion, and called for house searches and additional military checkpoints. 2/5

Thousands of Syrians were disappeared by #ISIS. Why haven’t local authorities @SDCPress & the US-led anti-ISIS @coalition prioritized the search for the missing & giving answers to their families?

Join the campaign we launch today w/ @SJAC_info: truthafterisis.org/en/ Twenty-eight mass graves have been discovered since the territorial defeat of #ISIS in northeast Syria three years ago, report local First Responders who continue to exhume new graves in the search for thousands of missing people. truthafterisis.org/en/

1/ Around 800,000 people in #Hasakah and its surrounding villages in northeast Syria have been deprived of drinking water after Turkey-backed Syrian opposition factions cut off supply from the main water pump since August 1st. 2/ Enwer Suleiman, a resident of Hasakah, said:
“We have been suffering from water shortages for years. It’s not the first time Turkey cut our water and won’t be the last. The water used to be cut off for fewer days, but now it’s been 25 days straight."

“The corona situation here is very bad” says a doctor in Damascus who remains anonymous for their safety. As hospitals overflow with COVID patients, the official number claimed by the Syrian regime & WHO is only 1432. Greatly at odds with the reported situation on the ground. 1/4 “As a doctor if I speak up, I will get bullied by Assad’s supporters and I will get intimidated by security, but we can’t remain silent anymore, people are dying here. Cases of COVID-19 infections and deaths are increasing drastically in regime-held areas..." 2/4

The horror of a #coronavirus outbreak in refugee camps is unimaginable. While people around the world are told to wash their hands, people in overcrowded camps in #Idlib and Greece have no access to soap & water The ceasefire in #Idlib must be protected and more than a million IDPs need to be able to return home. European countries must urgently resettle refugees from camps in the Greek islands #RefugeesWelcome

Today head of @SyriaCivilDef @RaedAlSaleh3 told a cross party group of UK MPs that “For 9 years the international community has made statements and called for ceasefires. The situation has only gotten worse. It is time to try something new”. .@RaedAlSaleh3: “The crisis in #Idlib cannot be described in numbers or words. It is much bigger than anything we have seen before. How can I explain 1 million people forced from their homes, 70% of them children?”

Thread: Doctors & medical staff in #Idlib province have issued a call today to @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres to visit them and see for himself the realities they face everyday.

#GuterresVisitIdlib "Mr Guterres: we invite you to visit us in #Idlib and see for yourself how our hospitals are being deliberately targeted"

#GuterresVisitIdlib

#EU Commissioner @JHahnEU, High Rep @FedericaMog and @RefugeesChief Filippo Grandi: Turkey’s deportation of Syrians back to a warzone violates international law. Sixteen human rights orgs are asking you to stand up for refugees and condemn Turkey’s actions #Stopthedeportations A letter from Syrian and international human rights groups gives details. Police have beaten detainees, denied them medical care and sent them to a warzone. Read the letter diary.thesyriacampaign.org/stop-forced-de…

*IMPORTANT* In Guardian today, sixty medical professionals from around the world, including two Nobel laureates, call on Russia and the Syrian regime to stop attacks on medical facilities in northwest Syria. theguardian.com/world/2019/jun… Signers of the letter, which include co-recipient of 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Dr Dennis Mukwege, write "we condemn the Syrian and Russian governments in the strongest possible terms for their attacks on medical facilities". Full letter here: medium.com/@TheSyriaCampa…

In Response To @RogerWaters: Last week Waters made a false and disgraceful claim that the White Helmets, Syria’s first responders, staged the April 7 2018 chemical attack on the city of Douma. 1/ Waters' use of his platform and his privilege as a celebrity, white man and millionaire to smear Syrian rescue workers is disgraceful and has serious consequences for the protection of humanitarian workers who are being deliberately targeted by the Syrian regime and Russia 2/

"My village was destroyed in 2012. People have been trying to rebuild it, and this morning it was destroyed again.” The regime & Russia are repeatedly attacking northwest Syria in violation of the demilitarised zone. This thread provides updates & footage from people under attack On Sunday, two hospitals were destroyed in northern Hama. Yesterday, a medical centre in Kafr Nabuda, also in Hama, ceased operations. Two civilians died in the attacks with @SyriaCivilDef unable to access the village because of the strikes. (This video is from Latamneh, N.Hama.)

THREAD: Today we publish a report, "Killing The Truth" that details the Russian-backed disinformation campaign against Syria's heroic rescue workers the @SyriaCivilDef known as the White Helmets. /1 Research from @Graphika_inc shows that bots and trolls linked to Russia have reached an estimated 56 million people with tweets attacking the @syriacivildef during 10 key moments in 2016 and 2017. /2