Ain Tarma where 1,300 innocent Syrians were gassed in their beds - but the anti-Israel 'human rights' activists are silent about this - no word from BDS on this!

Deliberate murder - and BDS has nothing to say on this

Bodies are still being discovered after an alleged chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus that killed hundreds of people and the death toll will rise, a Syrian opposition spokesman said today.

The opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people on Wednesday by firing rockets that released deadly fumes over rebel-held Damascus suburbs, killing men, women and children as they slept.
'We expect the number (of dead) to grow because we just discovered a neighbourhood in Zamalka where there are houses full of dead people,' Syrian National Coalition spokesman Khaled Saleh said in Istanbul, where the opposition has held regular meetings throughout the conflict.

Decomposing bodies

Fahad Almasri, spokesman for the rebel Free Syria Army in Paris, said its branch in Damascus had documented 1,729 deaths following Wednesday's attack. He added that 6,000 people were also suffering from breathing problems.
As innocent civilians recuperated in hospital, President Bashar Assad's forces - who are accused of being behind the chemical attacks - are said to be pressing on with their offensive in the rebel-held eastern Damascus suburbs.
The opposition said Assad's forces fired rockets that released deadly fumes over rebel-held eastern Damascus suburbs, which are part of what is known as the Ghouta.
The area is an expanse of old farmland dotted with large built up areas inhabited mostly by members of Syria's Sunni Muslim majority that have been at the forefront of the uprising against Assad's Alawite rule.
The government has denied the 'absolutely baseless' allegations that it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages there yesterday.

The attack will again test President Obama's warning in 2012 to Syria that using chemical weapons would be crossing a 'red line' - but a White House representative refused to give a definitive answer about whether this attack would prompt action from America.

But even the most conservative tally would make it the deadliest alleged chemical attack in
Syria's civil war and the world's most lethal chemical weapons attack since the 1980s.
As governments discussed a potential plan of action, activists said Assad's forces were firing rockets from multiple launchers and heavy mortar rounds on the neighbourhoods of Jobar and Zamalka, which are on the eastern outskirts of the capital.


Mass graves have become a norma sight in
Islamic hell-holes

Rockets also hit the nearby district of Qaboun to the north, where rebel fighters have repelled attempts by loyalist forces to overrun the area, and the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp area to the south, the activists added.

Speaking from Ghouta, activist Khaled Amer said explosions from rockets hitting Zamalka were being heard.
In Jobar, a Damascus neighbourhood only two miles) from the historic centre of the ancient capital, explosions were heard at an army fortification and another compound housing tanks, apparently from a rebel attack on the facilities.
Fadi al-Shami of the Tarhrir al-Sham Brigade, which operates in the eastern Ghouta region, said scattered fighting was taking place along the Jobar-Zamalka axis and that opposition forces have moved closer to loyalist lines, partly to be in safer positions in case of another chemical attack.
But despite Syrian officials' denials about the attack, the U.S., Britain and France have demanded that a team of U.N. experts, who are already in the country to investigate previous alleged attacks, be granted immediate access to investigate the site.
The U.N security council did not explicitly demand a U.N. investigation of the incident, although it said 'clarity' was needed and welcomed U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon's calls for a prompt investigation by a U.N. inspection team.
The council's statement was watered down to accommodate objections from Russia and China, diplomats said. Moscow and Beijing have vetoed previous Western efforts to impose U.N. penalties on Assad.
It would appear that many rebels and activists in the opposition area say they had lost interest in U.N. investigations or help from Western powers abroad. Some say the rebels should take matters into their own hands and retaliate.
'The families of Ghouta have lost hope in any investigation committees, which have offered us no relief since the revolution began two years ago... We are 7 kilometres away, just a 5 minute car ride from were they are staying.
'We're being exterminated with poison gas while they drink their coffee and sit inside their hotels,' said activist Bara Abdelraman.
'As leaders of the activists and opposition, of course we still call for the entrance of investigators and vow to protect them, as it is a responsibility before God to do everything we can for our people who are being massacred.'
The government forces alleged continued bombardment of the ring of rebel-held suburbs around the capital, known as the Ghouta region will further hinder U.N. investigators from entering the area, only a few kilometres from where the team's Damascus hotel, activists claimed.
'We are asking for this team to go directly, with complete freedom... to the site of the crimes which took place yesterday,' George Sabra, a prominent member of the umbrella opposition's National Coalition.
He said the U.N. Security Council should amend the mission of the team, tasked with investigating a few sites of previous alleged chemical attacks, to give it the right to visit any site.
'But we are doubtful because the mission of these experts is constrained by the Syrian regime, limited to a few areas which it will take them to,' he said.
Syrian National Coalition spokesman Khaled Saleh warned there would be limited time to inspect the scene: 'There is a time limit for when the inspectors can prove with high probability that chemical weapons were used. We are saying let the inspectors go in either today, or tomorrow at the most.
'Politics is knocking on closed doors and we understand that the U.N. is one of those closed doors for us," he said. "We will continue pursuing a political solution but at the same time that does not stop us from pursuing other alternatives.'

France said today that the international community would need to respond with force if allegations that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical attack on civilians proved true.

'There would have to be reaction with force in Syria from the international community, but there is no question of sending troops on the ground,' Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told French television network BFM.

If the U.N. Security Council could not make a decision, one would have to be taken 'in other ways,' he said, without elaborating.

The attack highlighted the sense of impunity within Assad's government, he said.
Fabius said that if Assad refused to let the U.N. inspection team investigate the site, he would have been caught with 'his hand in the till.'

Fabius, who had a working dinner with Foreign Secretary William Hague in Paris last night to discuss Syria, said the alleged attack had come almost exactly a year after U.S. President Barack Obama warned that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a red line.

It remains unclear whether this latest attack will bring about action from the U.S., as yesterday Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest avoided a definitive answer about America's next move in a briefing with journalists.

When reporters pressed Earnest on whether President Obama is 'willing to use the stick along with the rhetoric' on Syria, he quipped that it was 'a philosophical question which I think is a legitimate one.
'It might be better answered by the Commander-in-Chief himself.'
Earnest insisted that a UN inspection team, which has been on the ground in Syria since Tuesday, should be allowed to investigate the sites of alleged chemical weapons use before the U.S. or any other country mounts an organized response.
'We think it's important for that investigative team to be given access to that area,' he said.
He would not comment, however, on whether or not a 'red line' would be crossed if the Assad government interferes with that investigation or refuses to grant the UN team access to critical sites, including those shown in videos that circulated online Wednesday.

 

 

 

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