And on the second day he devoured 28 children. God bless us every
one, and Happy Holidays.
Wednesday
December 26, 2012
Today’s
Death Toll: 164, including 28 children and 15 women: 42 in Raqqa in the Qahtaniya
Massacre, 22 in Idlib, 32 in Damascus and Suburbs, 30 in Aleppo including 10 killed
in an air strike on Harbel, 14 in Homs, 9 in Hama, 7 in Lattakia, 6 in Daraa
and 3 in Deir Ezzor. Points of Random
Shelling: 277. Clashes: 146. In Hama, regimes
fighter jets shelled the towns of Mourek and Hilfaya with cluster bombs, and
several Damascene neighborhoods with white phosphorous bombs. For their parts,
rebels managed to bring down a fighter jet in Ba’as Mountains and another in Mourek,
as well as a helicopter from Mazzeh Military Airport that suburbs south of Damascus.
In Aleppo, rebels destroyed 3 fighter jets on the tarmac of Manag Airport. In
Deir Ezzor, rebels used anti-aircraft batteries to block fighter jets seeking
to shell the town of Mayadeen forcing them to retreat. In Raqqa, rebels gained
control of Sabkha City.
News
Syria
military police chief defects to rebels Major General Abdelaziz Jassim
al-Shalal says army has 'committed massacres against an unarmed population'
Netanyahu,
Jordan's Abdullah discuss Syria chemical arms: reports Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has secretly met Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman to
discuss the risk of Syria's chemical weapons falling into the hands of Islamist
militants, Israeli media reports said on Wednesday.
A
Christian prayer for peace in Syria Pope Benedict XVI urged
warring parties in Syria on Tuesday to end the 21-month-old civil war there… "Once
again, I appeal for an end to the bloodshed, easier access for the relief of
refugees and the displaced, and dialogue in the pursuit of a political solution
to the conflict."
Syria
Rebel Gains Expand In North Syrian rebels fully captured a
northern town near the Turkish border on Tuesday after weeks of heavy fighting
and attacked a regime air base in a neighboring province, activists said.
UK
aid convoy hits the road for Syria Carrying humanitarian and medical
supplies, 40-vehicle convoy will deliver aid to Syrians caught up in the
conflict.
Children
'killed' in Syria army tank attack UK-based activists claim eight
children among at least 20 total dead from tank shells in northern province of
al-Raqqa.
Syria’s
Nadine Fahad named Miss Arab World 2012 After winning the title,
Nadine said that she dedicates her title to her country war-torn Syria and her
“second home,” Egypt.
Shells
in the Desert: Syria Tested Chemical Weapons Systems, Witnesses Say The
Syrian army is believed to have tested firing systems for chemical weapons in
the desert at the end of August, according to witness reports. The tests
apparently took place near the country's largest chemical weapons facility at
Safira.
Special
Reports
Shells are exploding somewhere in
Aleppo most of the time, but after five months of fighting, people have become
inured to the ever-present threat. Rain and cloudy skies have deterred
warplanes, providing some relief from the airstrikes that can wipe out whole
apartment buildings, along with their inhabitants, in an instant. But the onset
of this second winter since Syrians rose up against their government 22 months
ago is bringing new calamity to a people already ground down by violence and
war. Hunger, cold and disease are emerging as equally profound challenges in
the desperate daily struggle that life has become for millions, not only in
Aleppo but across Syria, where the quest for greater freedoms sparked by the
Arab Spring has gone badly, horribly wrong.
Many already wore down by the conflict
and their escape now have to deal with freezing weather. Host nations scramble
to improve their camps.
The war in Syria is taking a huge toll
on the children. An international team of researchers that interviewed Syrian
kids in a refugee camp in Turkey found that 3 out of 4 have lost a loved one.
Almost half have post-traumatic stress disorder and elevated levels of
depression.
In
Syria, "father of martyrs" speaks of revenge After losing
three sons and two grandsons, 70-year-old Abdelhalim Haj Omar has no doubt
about the fate he wants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "I hope
Bashar, God willing, doesn't die until they slaughter his whole family in front
of him and they bring him here so that all of Syria can get their revenge from
him," he says in the Syrian town of Azaz, on the border with Turkey.
Dr. Nikolaos van Dam, the Netherlands’
former ambassador to Iraq, tells Rudaw that in order to avoid conflict and
bloodshed it is better for Iraq’s Kurdistan Region to remain “de facto
independent” than to fully claim it. Author of The Struggle for Power in Syria,
van Dam believes that, whatever the outcome of the conflict in Syria, the
country’s Kurdish population need not fear renewed persecution on ethnic
grounds, as in the past.
If the designation was intended to
isolate the Jabhat, it appears to have done the opposite and actually enhanced
its standing and reputation among some Syrians. The nationwide protest in Syria
on Dec. 14, for example, used the slogan “The only terrorism in Syria is
Assad’s,” a clear rebuke to the naming. Dozens of rebel groups have publicly
declared “We are all Jabhat al-Nusra” while even the leadership of the
political opposition in exile has condemned the terrorist label.
Video Highlights
On December 25, in the village of Zaafaraneh, near the town of
Rastan in Homs Province, local activists document what seems to be usage of white
phosphorous bombs dropped from a helicopter gunship http://youtu.be/g6MDDJDmIMU , http://youtu.be/Hm4xALkRzfY The
beginning of the attack http://youtu.be/V0S0ZVIK8F8
Several locals were killed in Talbisseh when the local bakery
was shelled by pro-Assad militias laying siege to the town http://youtu.be/GHgbA9Kp12w
Meanwhile, the terrorist organization known as Jabhat Al-Nusra,
was busy distributing another kind of gas in the Kurdish-majority town of Ras
Al-Ain in an attempt to smooth tense relations with the local population http://youtu.be/maA4yQ31EfE Other
Arab-dominated fighting units in town got together and formed a new Battalion:
Liwa Al-Nasr http://youtu.be/A52Uf77mSG8
Leaked video shows pro-Assad militias abusing than torching the
body of a dead rebel, one of them says at the end: “this is how we burn the
country for the sake of Assad. Assad or no one.” http://youtu.be/ZZCmo-VxHZU
The pounding of the town of Qahtaniyeh, Raqqa by pro-regime
forces leaves many children dead http://youtu.be/EM6-o0lQBZc
, http://youtu.be/RV9Hr9LMl3w
Pro-Assad militias celebrate Christmas with a mass execution in the
town of Daraya, Damascus http://youtu.be/NZvB7NmsAZs
Transporting the victims of shelling in the town of Moadamiyah,
Damascus http://youtu.be/G6-0APEhvnI
The pounding of the town of Zabadani intensifies on December 25 http://youtu.be/iETqOOA8xFM , http://youtu.be/9fwJsuiBJ9Y and
continues on December 26 http://youtu.be/QIr0rLiYTg8
In Homs, the pounding of Deir Baalbah Neighborhood continues http://youtu.be/75g1ua4wzkU
The final statement of the conference that led to the establishment of
the Front for the Liberation of Al-Jazeerah and Furat (the northeastern
parts of Syria, especially Deir Ezzor, Al-Hasaskeh and Al-Raqqah) in the town
of Orfa, Turkey http://youtu.be/_IcBlgOAMKU
The Front’s leader is Sheikh Nawaf Al-Basheer.
Victims of the massacre at Harbel, Aleppo http://youtu.be/rom7yA6ClQk Rebels and
loyalists clash on the tarmac of the Kuweirus Military Airport http://youtu.be/Hk3R9iCZY7c
Fighter jets took part in the pounding of the Mourek, Hama http://youtu.be/GQQouZq1_tc , http://youtu.be/HfdWYWBeoJU
Fighter jets targeted restive neighborhoods in Homs City as well: Jobar
http://youtu.be/njNKBaCWS5U , http://youtu.be/_lPJ76smjDI Deir
Baalbah was targeted by missiles http://youtu.be/5SUitXc04UI
, http://youtu.be/2LQJNRRwTl4
Helicopter gunships took part in the pounding of the town of Salma
in northern Lattakia with explosive barrels http://youtu.be/7He5DIxkZoY
Heavy artillery take part in pounding the town of Maarbah, Daraa
http://youtu.be/dFNkpo9AAGg , http://youtu.be/sgrAaF2gleo
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