Everywhere a battle and a massacre, everywhere misery,
everywhere hope rebellious, everywhere a birth. Syria may no longer be a
country, but it is surely a laboratory for experimenting with human folly and tenacity,
among other things.
Sunday December
30, 2012
Today’s
Death Toll: 143, including
10 children and 7 women: 85 in Damascus and Suburbs, 24 in Aleppo (most in
Maysar neighborhood), 14 in Hama (7 in Kafranboudeh), 9 in Daraa, 4 in Homs, 3 in
Idlib, 2 in Raqqa and 1 in Deir Ezzor. Points
of Random Shelling: 337: 26 by warplanes, 7 by Cluster Bombs, 3 by Phosphorus Bombs,
and 7 by barrel bombs. Artillery shelling was reported in 125 points, mortar
shelling in 114 points and missile shelling in 62 points. Clashes: 122. Rebels downed 3 jets in Manbej (Aleppo), Eastern Ghoutah
(Damascus) and Hama Suburbs. In Raqqah City, they gained control of a gas
station in Hamra area after a 3-day siege, meanwhile, 21 members of regime
forces defected in the Karama neighborhood. In Qalamoun region, Damascus, rebels
liberated the headquarters of the 413th Battalion after fierce
clashes with regime loyalists. They also completed their liberation of Regiment
14 and the fuels storage facilities in the city of Nabek, and liberated the suburb
of Bahdaliyah. In the town of Zabadani, Damascus, rebels also managed to take
control of a number of checkpoints destroying 5 military vehicles in the
process. In Daraa, rebels gained control of Al-Gharbi checkpoint in Basr
Al-Harir after fierce clashes (LCCs).
News
Israeli
crosses border into Syria Kfar Qassem resident said to be
mentally unstable crosses border in Golan Heights with apparent aim of urging
Assad to stop killing his people
Special
Reports
War is in many ways about things that
are left behind—people, items, ideas, innocence. It ages children before their
time, turns neighbors into enemies (or family), it destroys communities and
leaves scars that may or may not show. The confidently authoritarian Syria that
existed before March 15, 2011 has eroded, its brutal decades-old secular
pan-Arab regime is fighting for its existence. It will likely eventually go the
way of other brutal decades-old secular pan-Arab regimes, like Hosni Mubarak’s
Egypt, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s Tunisia and Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya, to be
replaced by a more religiously conservative, Sunni Muslim power structure of
some sort.
Gravediggers at the cemetery in the
northern Syrian town of Azaz no longer wait for bombs to fall before they break
the ground. The dead come too fast… "We know the plane is coming to hit
us, so we're being prepared," said Abu Sulaiman, one of a few men digging
at the Sheikh Saad cemetary. "Massacres are happening. We're putting every
two or three bodies together. We've been working and digging since 6 in the
morning. We're going to dig 10 new graves today," he said.
Video Highlights
Another video showing the massacre of Deir Baalbah, Homs City http://youtu.be/hYHe0rH6tRA
Leaked video shows how pro-Assad militias abuse the bodies of
dead defectors http://youtu.be/5BHctiJ5kyk
In Damascus, rebels in Qalamoun take control of the town of Rankous
http://youtu.be/lc9Vvuvlef0 But in
Eastern Ghouta, the regime kept pounding the restive towns: Deir Al-Assafeer
http://youtu.be/WwinTd2-oxU , http://youtu.be/PUd7-k5mf5E Aqrabah
http://youtu.be/yYPzpPFZIcY In Jisreen
people rush to save relatives and friends from under the rubble http://youtu.be/YZcl9oLUSQw , http://youtu.be/5sl15MX6PdE People do
the same in Kafar Batna http://youtu.be/MXhU3qeYJfw
Along the border with Lebanon, the town of Zabadani continues to
be pounded http://youtu.be/c43SMQObEDE
The pounding of the town of Rastan, Homs, continues http://youtu.be/ZF4lVelBKuY , http://youtu.be/AZx7eJ3oUiA
In Kafrenboudeh, Hama, people rush to pullout the injured and
the dead from under the rubble in the aftermath of an aerial raid on the town http://youtu.be/v7X1h72J7J8 , http://youtu.be/l_YQWW9Sg6M The dead http://youtu.be/JiSs6MRPhYE Including
children http://youtu.be/UHgsmRWOs40 ,
http://youtu.be/MM8wNYtF14s
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