Syria this morning, January 1, 2024
5 civilians murdered and 10 injured by artillery shelling of Assad forces and Russia targeting the city of Darat Azza.
أخبار رائعة!
يسعدنا أن نعلن لكم أنَّنا كسرنا اليوم الحصار المستمر منذ سنوات على مخيم الركبان في جنوب سوريا.
رغماً عن الأسد وحليفتيه روسيا وإيران، تمكنَّا من إيصال المساعدات إلى السكان لأول مرة منذ فترة طويلة جدًا.
🎉 GREAT NEWS!
We are thrilled to announce that today we broke the years-long siege on the
#Rukban
camp in southern Syria. Despite Assad and his allies Russia and Iran, we were able to deliver aid to residents for the first time in a very long time.
Confirmed that the dictator Bashar Al
#Assad
will not be attending the
#COP28
climate summit in the UAE.
This comes after France issued a warrant for Assad’s arrest for his usage of illegal chemical weapons on Syrians.
Political pressure works, more must take place.
Congratulations to Free Syrians around the world. The “Assad regime Anti-Normalization Act” has passed the House of Representatives with 389 votes in support.
“In The Hague, Vladimir Putin is facing an arrest warrant for war crimes. But at the UN, Russia is about to take charge of a powerful international body, the security council.” This is an absurd reality and not a joke..
#Syria
#Ukraine
#Russia
Assad sees this horrible quake as a money making opportunity and has been successful pushing a campaign to lift all sanctions on him fuel his war. Sanctions on Assad do NOT affect aid to the people, in fact the only UN aid coming into syria is going to Assad
Today, the Arab League failed the Syrian people.
Welcoming Assad back into the Laugue will not erase his long record of past and ongoing mass atrocities against civilians.
We are determined to continue the fight for justice, accountability, and democracy in Syria.
#NeverAgain
Massive anti-government protests in non-regime-controlled
#Idlib
, Northwest
#Syria
, in solidarity with protesters in regime-controlled cities.
Syrians across the country are uniting and demanding the downfall of the
#Assad
regime.
🚨All eyes must be on Syria today!
Anti-government protests are taking place in several cities and villages across Syria in an unprecedented scene since the pro-democracy revolution in 2011.
“Soleimani orchestrated..ethnic cleansing of Sunni villages and cities throughout Syria. These crimes fueled radicalism and led to the rise of ISIS..the killing of civilians that Soleimani helped facilitate in Syria will not end with his death”
@SoccerMouaz
Take action today to support the "Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Bill” by contacting your representatives.
Stand against normalization of war criminal Assad today!
@celinekasem
It is a sad day for Syrians, mourning the loss of a national hero, Astronaut Mohamad Fares, the first Syrian, Arab, Muslim astronaut who dedicated his life to science, humanity and standing in the face of the Assad dictatorship’s injustice.
May his soul rest in peace.
Today's breaking news of the start of the assaults on Ukraine looks all too familiar to Syrians around the world. It brings us back to the thousands of missiles and airstrikes across Syria, and especially Aleppo, done by the same Russian government
42 years since the one of the most bloody massacres of our modern time at the hands of Hafez Assad.
The estimated number of murdered is 40,000
Over 100,000 detained
Over 15,000 disappeared
63 mosques destroyed
4 churches destroyed
#WeRemember
#Hama
7 years ago today the Assad regime and Russia forcibly displaced thousands of survivors Syrians outside of Aleppo, after destroying the city to the ground, using barrel bombs, air strikes and cluster bombs targeting schools and hospitals filled with civilians.
Today, the "Assad Regime Anti-Normalization act" will finally be voted on, we are grateful to have worked on this act at a critical time of nations normalizing with the dictator Assad Regime.
🧵 Read our statement 👇
SETF is thrilled to announce that the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act” is finally scheduled for deliberation on the House floor tomorrow, February 13.
🧵 Learn more about this bill and its importance 👇
The Story of Ayesha
Ayesha is a kind girl, calm & intelligent. Her story is deeply tragic, but she has managed to find some healing through the efforts of the wonderful teachers at the Wisdom House.
After losing both her mother and father to the war, Ayesha is now an orphan.
We are thrilled to announce that the bipartisan CAPTAGON Act was signed into law today by President Biden to disrupt and dismantle Assad's narcotics production and trafficking.
Thank you,
@RepFrenchHill
&
@RepBrendanBoyle
, for your leadership on this issue.
Read more ⬇️
More than 750 people were aboard on a ship that sunk off the Greek coast yesterday, at least 78 have been confirmed dead.
At least 33 of them were from
#Daraa
Syrians today are willing to risk their lives at sea rather than live in fear & torture under the brutal
#Assad
regime
🎉 GREAT NEWS!
We are thrilled to announce that today we broke the years-long siege on the
#Rukban
camp in southern Syria. Despite Assad and his allies Russia and Iran, we were able to deliver aid to residents for the first time in a very long time.
We are proud to have been involved in drafting this very important and timely piece of legislation, which was introduced in the US House on Thursday.
Thank you to the bipartisan group of lawmakers for continuing to support our fight for a free Syria.
#NeverAgain
Read⬇️
🚨GOOD NEWS: Canada and the Netherlands have jointly instituted proceedings against the Assad regime before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violations of the Convention against Torture, which Damascus ratified in 2014.
#NeverAgain
Vigil tonight in Syria commemorating the 10th anniversary of the horrendous, illegal, devastating, Chemical attack by the murderous Assad regime on Syrian civilians in eastern & western Ghouta killing over 1,400 people, mostly women & children, injuring over 10,000 human beings.
Recently, the Syrian regime granted a 3-month extension for
@UN
aid to opposition-held regions. It’s crucial for the int community to cease giving this Regime & its allies -responsible for the suffering of the Syrian people-the authority on the fate of 5 million ppl in NW Syria.
BREAKING: A massacre was just committed by Russia & Assad's forces against civilians in the town of Kafr Nuran in the countryside of
#Aleppo
,
#Syria
.
#Russia
IS A TERRORIST STATE
“One day, I was at Tishreen military hospital where bodies are processed before being sent to the mass graves, and there was a body of a little girl only 6 or 7 years old. Her little lifeless body showed signs of terrible torture.” -
#GraveDigger
#Syria
“The trailers tilted the corpses into vast trenches. “Hundreds of bodies flowed out. Some human beings looked skeletal because they were starved. Others had their guts spilling out. I would see a river of parts,” the
@Syr_GraveDigger
said.
Bashar al-Assad’s shabiha executed Khansaa al-Sayyid, along with her 2 year old daughter she is carrying, Nour Amr al-Saleh, in the village of Shin of Homs, while she was on her way to Lebanon, where her husband worked. A car stopped them in the village and killed them.
We are looking for donations to buy press materials (helmet & jacket) for our journalists team on the ground who risk their lives to cover the realities of aggression. Colleagues of Mohammed, who was killed by Russian bombardment last week. Donate here
Syrian journalist Mohammed Othman has just passed away after being injured a couple days ago while showing the world what’s the shelling of Idlib by the
#Assad
regime &
#Russia
is like
May he rest in peace, and may there be future where journalists & Syrians can live in peace.
Maryam kamalmaz, the daughter of Majd Kamalmaz, a US citizen, a psychologist & expert in working with traumatized children, who was arbitrarily detained in 2017 while on a mission to help Syrian children in Syria.
@FamiliesSyria
The “Gravedigger” & “Bulldozer”driver just met with
@UKSyriaRep
for the first time to discuss key eye witness testimonies on
#Assad
’s mass graves in
#Syria
, the current situation in Suwayda, Idlib & the endless war crimes against humanity being committed in Syria
@UkSyrian
Today, the
#ICJ
heard the first oral hearing of
#Canada
and the
#Netherlands
vs. the
#Syrian
state on the case of torture that has killed thousands of Syrians in the brutal
#Assad
regime’s dungeons.
Very important step in accountability.
The Syrian and Ukrainian people have lived through the same war crimes committed by Putin against civilians. We stand united against the same killer
#Syria
#Ukraine
Today we recognize the amazing work of
@omarAlshogre
a human rights activist and former detainee. After surviving immense torture and loss at the hands of the Assad regime, he has gone on to speak out publicly against the regime and on behalf of his fellow Syrian citizens
In ⏱10 DAYS, over 4.1 M Syrians could lose access to their only source of life-saving aid.
On 7/10, the UNSC will need to vote on reauthorizing the only remaining border crossing point for humanitarian aid into
#Syria
. Millions of lives depend on
#Russia
’s vote.
@omarAlshogre
The Caesar Bill has been added to the NDAA! This paves the way for this legislation to become law. We are grateful to all those who supported our organization’s advocacy on behalf of this bill. Thank you Caesar for working tirelessly with us for justice and freedom in
#Syria
This is Abdullah Al-Khateeb, the younger brother of Hamza Al-Khateeb, who was detained, tortured, and killed by the Assad regime at the age of 13.
Hamza’s dead body had broken bones, gunshot wounds, burn marks, & severed genitals.
Today, his brother protested in A’zaz.
#Syria
Take action to support the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Bill” by contacting your representatives. On this website
Stand against normalization of war criminal Assad
today!
@omarAlshogre
THREAD 🧵
🚨🚨Attention, international community!
Urgent & foreboding news from Syria. Russian state media is making false accusations, suggesting that the
#US
is supporting local militias in
#Syria
to launch a chemical attack.
Past example:
🧵 September 30, 2015 marks the first day of
#Russian
intervention in
#Syria
.
Putin gave Assad the biggest helping hand in the endless war crimes against Syrian civilians.
@SyriaUkraineSUN
For the last 3 days the
#Assad
regime, and it’s allies have been consistently bombarding North West
#Syria
resulting in the death of dozens and injury of more.
SETF representing
#Syria
at an elementary school cultural day in DC, with many kids making beautiful letters of hope to soon be on their way to kids in Syria💞
“I lived with death for 7 years; with dead bodies and soulless intelligence officers. It might seem unimaginable to you, so let me share some of the horrors that have never left my mind,” The
#Gravedigger
testified before the U.S. Senate on June 8.
#NeverAgain
#Syria
Syrian journalist Mohammed Othman has just passed away after being injured a couple days ago while showing the world what’s the shelling of Idlib by the
#Assad
regime &
#Russia
is like
May he rest in peace, and may there be future where journalists & Syrians can live in peace.
Important.
“The Normalizing of Assad Has Been a Disaster”
Syria’s president was welcomed back into the fold a year ago—and everything since then has gotten worse.
@Charles_Lister
المنظمة السورية للطوارىء تعتز بمساعدة و تسهيل هذه القضية، أول دعوى قضائية أمريكية على الإطلاق ضد النظام السوري بتهمة التعذيب مع
@cja_news
البيان الكامل هنا:
We are extremely grateful for our partners
@GlobalJusticeI
for their efforts in helping us distribute books to all school-aged children in
#Rukban
camp
#Syria
Read our full statement here:
SETF welcomes the Paris Court’s International Arrest Warrant of Syrian
Dictator Bashar al-Assad
Read our full statement with quotes from Ambassador Stephan Rapp, a member of SETF’s board, who worked on the case ⬇️
"This week, we saw another low for humanity as Russia vetoed a UNSC Res. to continue delivering life-saving humanitarian aid to millions of people in NW Syria."
Statement from Ivan M. Nielsen, former Danish Special Rep. for the Syria Crisis & member of SETF Board of Trustees ⬇️
Today marks 100 days since Free Syrians have been continuously protesting at Dignity Square in
#Suwayda
, Syria for the fall of the dictator Assad regime.
Freedom to all
#Syria
الآلاف احتشدوا في ساحة الكرامة وسط مدينة السويداء اليوم الجمعة، بعد مرور مائة يوم على انطلاق الانتفاضة الشعبية في السويداء. مائة يوم من المظاهرات اليومية والمستمرة، للمطالبة بالحرية والتغيير السياسي، وإسقاط نظام الأسد.
#مظاهرات_السويداء
Our commemoration event of the 13 year anniversary of the Syrian revolution.
📅 Date: March 12, 2024
🕑Time: 10:00 am-11:30 am
📍Location: Rayburn House
Office Building, Room 2255
This is how
#Syrian
dictator
#Bashar
Al-
#Assad
talks about the thousands of ordinary women, men, and children who he has besieged in the Rukban camp for four years.
No food, no medicine, no education.
@VoiceofRukban
Today
#Russian
air raids targeted an abandoned water station where IDP Syrians who struggle to find a tent or housing flee to, killing 3 people & injuring more than 10 in the vicinity of the Sheikh Bahr area in
#Idlib
.
“One day, one of the trailer trucks dumped its contents of several hundred dead, mangled corpses into the trench in front of us. Unexpectedly, we saw a flicker of movement. There was a man near-death desperately using his last reserve of energy to signal to us that somehow.”
Omar Alshogre testified before the UN
#SecurityCouncil
yesterday, urging all members to take action against the Assad regime's heinous human rights violations and stand with the Syrian people fighting for freedom and justice.
Watch his full speech:
#Syria
“There is no difference between Syrians of all sects, we took to the streets today to confirm that, and that the only criminal is Bashar al-Assad and everyone who helped him,” said Abu Salah Marea, an activist in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
Photo:
@AliHajSuleiman
#Russia
has been using the same playbook for centuries. Most recently in
#Syria
and now in
#Ukraine
.
Russia must be stopped and held accountable for its war crimes against humanity.
@SyriaUkraineSUN
“Russia is using those same weapons and tactics in Ukraine that it honed in its 7 years waging war against the Syrian people. Where is the line?” -
#GraveDigger
#Syria
@SyriaUkraineSUN
Three days ago,
#Russian
and
#Assad
forces dropped bombs on a camp for thousands of Internally Displaced People in Northern
#Syria
.
SETF strongly condemns these attacks and calls on the International Community to take action in Syria.