Kids in Al Rukban refugee camp built their own little swimming pool. - So terribly sad and hopeful at the same time. These children will never give up, no matter how much the world tries to ignore what hell they live in.
#Rukban
#Syria
Friends, I have set up a crowdfunder to help raise medical funds for the ICRC for victims of the Beirut blast yesterday. My target is £10,000, if we could beat that then hopefully we can help a lot of people. Please donate what you can today
Another sandstorm sweeps over the
#Rukban
refugee camp at the Jordanian border where more than 10.000 people remain stuck without any humanitarian or medical assistance. This is the result of the United Nations’ and the international community’s complete failure.
#Syria
They call this ‘supporting operation’ when an airplane circles above the ocean to frighten migrants in flimsy boats trying to escape hell.
#RefugeesWelcome
I saw this being shared on Twitter and had to double check to see if it's actually true, but a huge RAF Atlas transport aircraft has spent the day flying across the channel crossing at low altitude, seemingly to scare off migrants.
Call the Greek embassy/ies in your country and ask them what their government is doing to resolve the
#Moria
disaster. Of course you won't get an answer but at least they will know that there are witnesses to their crimes against refugees.
#Greece
#SaveThem
Breaking: The time bomb exploded.
#Moria
camp burned to the ground after fires started last night. ~12,000 men women & children evacuated the camp and are on the streets
Unspeakable crimes were committed in
#Aleppo
under the very eyes of the whole world. The international community did not stand up against
#Assad
/
#Putin
and is therefore guilty for depraved ignroance. But there is a collective conscience of people who will never forget or forgive.
Greek military personnel searching for leftover ammunition on previous army exercise field. At the same location the new refugee camp
#KaraTepe
has been built.
#Europe
#EU
basically forces refugee kids play on an ex-mine field so they won’t forget why they came here.
Verstörend. Ein gut geschützter Angehöriger des griechischen Militärs bei der
#Minensuche
im Lager, während sich direkt neben ihm kleine Kinder aufhalten.
#KaraTepe
#Moria2
Strange to me that
@UNEnvoySyria
asked
'For the waiver of sanctions that can undermine the capacity of the country to ensure access to food, essential health supplies and
#COVID19
medical support to respond to the pandemic'
#EU
&
#CaesarLaw
CLEAR that NO SUCH
#Sanctions
exist
Five newborns were evacuated from a clinic in
#Kyiv
through RPI's collaboration with brave local volunteers.
More funding is desperately needed to help evacuate hospitalized and vulnerable
#Ukrainian
children and their families.
💠
💠
'Children suffer from skin diseases due to contaminated water and much of the population is malnourished due to a
#Russian
and
#Syrian
regime-led blockade which prevents food and medicine from entering the [
#Rukban
]camp.'
@will_christou
@SyriaDirect
‘The international community and its NGOs have left al-Rukban to “suffer its fate alone, without humanity or mercy,” Ibrahim concluded.’
#Rukban
#Syria
@will_christou
Read more:
'New tarps have arrived into
#Rukban
camp for the first time in three years via an informal distribution network. (...) Aid has been triaged based on need, and the next shipment intends to reach the few women living in the camp without families.'
‘Despite the overwhelming brutality and horror of the now-decade-long civil war, the voices of a new generation of activists have not fallen silent.’
@will_christou
-
#FreeSyria
#Syria10
I'm already sick and tired of all the anti-refugee rhetoric that will restart now. I'm going to report and block anyone who tries to argue with me against protecting people forced from home.
#RefugeesWelcome
Popsicles for the kids in
#Rukban
in
#Syria
. - Rare joy amidst all the hardship in the camp that is devoid of everything required to live a decent life and is completely forgotten by the outside world.
War-affected children with disabilities and their mothers in
#Ukraine
need immediate assistance as long as this is still possible.
Please support and their local grassroot partner .
💠
💠
Don’t forget that
@RaniaKhalek
, now posing as a supporter of the Palestinian people, is one of the most prominent Assadists!!! - You cannot ‘stand’ with one oppressed people while cheering for the oppression of others. It’s more sickening than standing with either.
Fiery speech by the Egyptian activist Rahma Zein at the UCLA encampment for Palestine
Also Rania Khalek participated in the encampment.
You both are great representation to what we stand for, thank you for always speaking up🔥
@Rahmazeinegypt
@RaniaKhalek
Let’s hope that this will work. It didn’t in Syria, where Russia abused concepts like ‘ceasefires’ and ‘humanitarian corridors’ to create even more destruction and death.
#StopPutin
#ProtectCivilians
#StandWithUkraine
️
⚡️Temporary ceasefire begins in Mariupol and Volnovakha to set up humanitarian corridors.
The corridors will serve to evacuate civilians and deliver food and medicine to the cities that have been cut off from the world by Russian attackers.
Down
#Assad
.
(And if you have more ‘sympathy’ with this downed regime helicopter than with the hundreds/thousands of civilians it had barrel bombed, please fuck off.)
Absolutely sickening: Last Saturday Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, met with dictator
#Assad
, who has committed every possible crime against the
#Syrian
people during his tyrannical rule.
@Olympics
#AssadWarCrimes
And let us not forget that either: IOC President Thomas Bach, that most apolitical don't-mix-politics-with-sports person on earth, poses in China with many despots - including mass murderer Bashar al-Assad
Syrian children's resilience is incredible. But it cannot distract from the endless view of tents and the suffering around them. Stand with us and show them they are not alone.
@kparadiseorg
I don’t think there is one single day in the year which is not the anniversary of a crime that Assad and his terror regime committed against Syrian civilians.
#EndAssad
For those who thinks Assad can be legitimized again: Eight years ago today, Assad forces killed more than 700 civilians in Daraya, southwest of the capital, Damascus, including 522 documented by names.
Entier families, women and children were killed and slaughtered.
Not that anyone cares since it is happening in
#Syria
: But
#Putin
and
#Assad
continue slaughtering civilians almost daily. There is no indication that this will ever stop as long as the international community is ok with.
#StopBombingCiviliansEverywhere
Here is Idlib, where the criminal Assad regime, supported by Russia, persists in continuously killing civilians and destroying any form of safety and life in northwestern Syria. The video shows Russian warplanes bombing west of the city of Idlib today.
Corbyn, while hypocritically calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, supports Assad’s slaughter of the Syrian people.
Always astonishing how minds can be so twisted, but not infrequent esp with Syria X Palestine. And adding Ukraine to the moral integrity test results in very few people.
This morning in Al
#Rukban
,
#Syria
: Lonely child looking to refill its water container. But not even water is easily available anymore in this place of complete oblivion.
Grave of 13 yo Maha who died two days ago. She lived/survived in
#Rukban
since the beginning of the camp's existence. Maha suffered from an incurable congenital disease to which she now succumbed.
May she be relieved from all her suffering and Rest in Peace. 💔
Endless lines of green busses became a symbol for the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of
#Syrians
, after their home towns had been destroyed in months/years-long bombing campaigns by the
#Russia
-backed
#Assad
regime.
#Aleppo
, December 2016
Photo by
@KaramAlmasri25
Would be nice if those who are interested in what has been going on in
#Russia
these days could spend like a second to see how
#Putin
is now retaliating on the
#Syrian
people.
The first moments of the response to Russian airstrikes that targeted a vegetable and fruit market on the outskirts of Jisr al-Shughour, west of
#Idlib
, today, killing 9 civilians and injuring 30.
Five huge trucks entered Al
#Rukban
earlier today. The empty trucks arrived without delivering any kind of aid to the camp that has been under siege for years. Instead, the aim of this failed UN/SARC mission was to forcibly displace residents to regime-controlled
#Syria
.
This is forced return and has nothing to do with ‘voluntary departure’. The UN must not leave people behind who cannot return to regime-controlled regime area for security reasons, knowing they have no access to any kind of aid.
#Rukban
#Syria
#SyriaIsNotSafe
Fuck all forces who put civilians’ lives at risk, regardless which side they’re on. I’m sick and tired of ‘analysts’ from either side who discuss the situation without taking into account ordinary Syrians’ lives. This is not a military operation but another humanitarian disaster.
Seven years ago tens of thousands of people were forced to leave
#Aleppo
#Syria
. After years under siege,
#Assad
/
#Putin
finally bombed the city into complete annihilation at the end of 2016.
These unspeakable crimes will never be forgotten or forgiven.
Photo by
@KaramAlmasri25
A media worker from Moadamiya remembers repeated sniper attacks on members of his community, particularly half-starved women & children pushed into the surrounding fields to search for olives & herbs due to the regime's devastating siege.
@PaullMcLoughlin
The terrifying UN staff in Syria: The wife of an Assad regime minister, a daughter of the head of Syria’s general intelligence directorate, & now a son of notorious top intelligence officer Ghassan Khalil, is reported by Karam Shaar working as an Information Management associate
Baby
#Yakeen
, born in
#Rukban
earlier this year, has been suffering from a birth defect and would have required specialized surgery in Jordan.
However, because of the inhumane political situation, medical evacuation is not possible. Today, Yakeen died from ignorance and neglect.
Girl in
#Rukban
with facial eczema caused by contaminated water supplied via a pipeline from
#Jordan
(left). After the family started using water purified using chlorine tablets her skin improved within weeks (right).
The
@WHO
is just incredible: They manage to write a full post without mentioning
#Russia
or
#Putin
. - But not surprising for an institution whose head
@DrTedros
calls
#Assad
‘His Excellency’ when visiting the state terrorist in Damascus.
WHO was shocked to learn about another cruel attack on healthcare and civilian facilities in Ukraine. This is an act of violence. 1,243 attacks on health care have been confirmed in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. WHO continues to work with local authorities to meet the needs.
'Ahmad H, understood by the Guardian to be an associate of Yusuf*, is accused of personally participating in the abuse of civilians in various occasions.'
*Identified by
@ugur_umit_ungor
and Shahhoud as one of the main perpetrators of the
#Tadamon
massacre
Lady in
#Rukban
camp desperately needs C Section or she and her baby will probably die.
@OIRSpox
@CJTFOIR
, can you help save these lives like you did on Monday?
'The people left in Maarat Al-Numan have only their fellow Syrians and a few other supporters to save them from extermination.'
@PaullMcLoughlin
Let us be these few supporters who will help saving the rest.
@kparadiseorg
Rukbanis are ready to try anything to offer their kids a normal life like any other kids despite living under a regime siege for years. No support from the UN or international community and yet they build 'swimming pools' and make ice cream as temperatures soar.
#Rukban
#Syria
'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.'
Marie Colvin, killed by Assad in Baba Amr, Syria, 22Feb2012
RIP
Kids in Al
#Rukban
made good use of a
#UNHCR
tarpaulin to build a ‘swimming pool’. - This shouldn’t hide the fact though that no humanitarian aid reaches the camp.
#Assad
imposed a starvation siege to force its residents into surrender. And the
#UN
stands by and does nothing.
Garden in the
#Rukban
refugee camp. People are growing eggplant (left) and Corchorus olitorius (right). The leaves of the last one are used to make the popular dish 'Mulukhiyah' (ملوخية).
#Syria
'Zaki had come from a low-income family in Kabul and had worked hard to achieve his dream of being on the national soccer team while also attending school.'
@farnazfassihi
#Kabul
#Afghanistan
‘Market’ in the Al
#Rukban
camp today. It’s almost empty because there is nothing to sell. But that doesn’t really matter, no one has money to buy anything anyway.
#Syria
Wonderful news from
#Rukban
: Urgently needed tarpaulins arrived for winterization! - Unlike the oversized
@UNHCRinSYRIA
logo would suggest, they were not donated but had previously been stolen from warehouses in regime-held
#Syria
, sold to smugglers and bought by the
#refugees
.
‘There was no humanity in the regime's prisons. It was a cemetery for the living. They would torture young people in front of our cells.’
#FreeDetainees
#SaveDetainees
4 years ago our friends were among almost 6000 people boarding green buses to be forcibly displaced after
#Assad
’s brutal starve-to-surrender siege of
#Madaya
, where dozens of civilians died from starvation, exploding land mines and a lack of medical care.
#NeverForget
#Syria
Widow with child in Al
#Rukban
#Syria
. - The
#UN
and so-called international community have completely failed her and about 10.000 refugees trapped in the middle of nowhere. People have no food, no clean water, no access to healthcare. They don't even exist on the world's radar.
Just learnt from my friend that two of her relatives were on the boat and got killed. They had lived under miserable conditions in the Al Azraq camp in
#Jordan
for almost 13 years and finally dared to start over in
#Europe
. They leave their mother and 5 siblings behind.
#RPI
'Born with a congenital malformation, two-week old Yaqeen is at risk of death unless she is evacuated from al-Rukban and receives specialist treatment.'
@will_christou
#Rukban
#Syria
#SaveYaqeen
Most children living in Northwest
#Syria
have experienced traumata caused by the war and/or the earthquake. With
@kparadiseorg
we strive to build on the kids' resilience by providing safe spaces for their young souls' to heal, strengthen and unfold.
#PSS
‘These pictures are from yesterday's protest to demand the immediate opening of a safe crossing from
#Iraq
or
#Jordan
, since there were no food or medical supplies left in
#Rukban
.’
Local resident, Rukban, Syria
'In Syria, the Assad regime insists that none have been detected. On Friday the Daraa National Hospital denied "baseless" rumours that eight coronavirus patients were being treated there.'
@Brian_Whit
#Syria
#Assad
#COVID19
#Corona
Kids playing with a kite in the Al
#Rukban
refugee camp. -
Typical buildings can be seen in the background. People build the houses with mud bricks and cover them with worn out tarps (last provided by
@OCHA_Syria
no less than about 5 years ago).
Photo by local resident
Two years after the
#UN
closed their clinic at the Jordanian border, depriving the residents of
#Rukban
#Syria
of any medical assistance, a hospital was opened at the
#Tanaf
military base of
@CJTFOIR
.
The first 50 most critically ill patients were admitted for treatment today.
You can hear the cries of children.
Assad regime exploits the world's attention on Palestine and continues its destruction in Idlib. Civilians in Idlib suffer in silence, as today, Russian and Iranian-backed Assad forces targeted a camp for displaced people in Idlib.
The need is bigger than any of us can imagine, and we have to be there every day to fill the huge gaps in food security, shelter and access to (mental) health care.
The
@kparadiseorg
Team has been on the ground every day since day one.
#Syria
#Turkiye
#Earthquake
For those who are interested in
#Syria
all of a sudden since the
#NESyria
operations are going on, this might be of interest (too):
#Assad
and
#Putin
bombing hospitals with impunity. But this is mainly in opposition-held area and not
#Rojava
, so who cares.
As the world remains indifferent, people in
#Idlib
are taking action themselves and will march towards the Turkish border. Please stand with them by adding your voice and amplifying their desperate pleas for safety and peace.
#Rise4Idlib
#MarchToTheBorders
#BreakTheBorders
Could someone please tell Magtymova, WHO’s representative in Damascus, that medical aid is not embargoed?! She never misses an opportunity to echo and amplify Assad’s pathetic narrative blaming sanctions for the inadequate
#COVID19
response.
#Syria
Moayad and Abdulaziz al-Obaid returned from
#Rukban
to regime-controlled area under security guarantees by the Syrian Red Crescent.
Two days ago, their family learnt of their death under torture after two years in detention.
This is how safe
#Syria
is.
This little boy was among the last people evacuated from hell in
#MaaratalNuman
yesterday night. He brought his precious cat with him and shared some sweets. 😻
#Idlib
#Syria
#Humanity
Nothing new here really. Just another storm in Al
#Rukban
#Syria
. - The camp has become a metaphor for the failure of humanitarian principles and most basic human rights (access to water, food, healthcare etc) the global community has been so proud of (in theory).
“One former UN manager told the Guardian that every UN agency had at least “one person who is a direct relative of a Syrian official”.”
@ejbeals
@nickhopkinsnews
In the absence of any support by the international community or the United Nations, survivors in
#Rukban
try growing vegetables. The soil is fertile but seed and water are too scarce for farming on a large enough scale to feed more than 10.000 people.
8 years ago,
#Russia
stepped up its
#Assad
-saving intervention in
#Syria
, devastating hundreds of towns, killing tens thousands, injuring hundreds of thousands, displacing millions. Meanwhile, the world has been watching idly or even worse, idiotically waiting for 'peace'.
Syria: Mahmud is a first eye-witness of the massive & systematic destruction by Russia of his town (Lataminah in N. Hama province). Town was captured in Summer 2019, emptied from all its residents. 4 years later, Lataminah is still a pile of rubble.
Heartbreaking and unacceptable what the Syrian children have been going through. How can so much trauma and re-trauma and re-re-trauma ever heal. - Meanwhile, the perpetrators walk unimpeded and unpunished.
#FreeSyria
#EndAssad
Children in northwestern Syria are living under immense pressure and significant fears that are difficult to overcome. A young girl comforting her frightened friend after a state of panic among students in schools due to the sounds of Russian airstrikes in northwestern Syria.
Today people in
#Switzerland
have nothing better to do than voting on whether wearing burkas should be forbidden. While I cannot even recall when I last saw a woman wearing a burka,
#Islamophobia
is everywhere and must be stopped.
'It's a very clear message from the Assad regime that we still control this country and we control it by fear, deprivation and keeping millions of Syrians occupied and drained and exhausted as they look for their loved ones.'
@WafaMustafa9
@will_christou
Not that anyone cares despite all of the recent hypocritical conscious-soothing nonsensical talking by some 'decision makers', these forgotten kids from Al
#Rukban
are calling on the world to help them. If we are not willing to save them, this really is the end of humanity. </3
A glaring example of how normalizing relations with perpetrator regimes directly undermines the victims' human rights & justice:
In 2016, UNGA adopted A/RES/71/248, establishing a mechanism to assist in holding perpetrators of international crimes committed in Syria accountable.