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#Douma three days ago Searching for survivors under rubble after several airstrikes on #EasternGhouta #WhiteHelmet: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 9 February 2018
Fresh bombardment hit the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, AFP correspondents reported, the fifth straight day of a bombing campaign that has killed more than 240 civilians.
Multiple strikes also killed seven civilians in Erbin, where medics reported being overwhelmed by the relentless bombardment.
The Israeli army: The raids targeted 3 Syrian air defense batteries and 4 Iranian targets near #Damascus #IsraeliF16Fall. The report came after the Israeli military said one of its fighter jets had crashed during strikes against "Iranian targets" in Syria after intercepting a drone.: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 10 February 2018
6 yr old Yehya who was injured after a cluster bomb exploded near him a day earlier, lies in a hospital in rebel-held #Douma #Syria Photo @badramamet @epahotos: image via Sunday Times Pictures @STPictures, 2 February 2018
An ambulance from the Damascus countryside field hospital brought in dozens of women and children wounded in today's bombing of Douma, with injuries ranging from severe to moderate to be transferred to surgical departments and intensive care #RevolutionSyria #Syria #Damascus #Douma: image via Douma Medical @Doumamedical, 9 February 2018
An ambulance from the Damascus countryside field hospital brought in dozens of women and children wounded in today's bombing of Douma, with injuries ranging from severe to moderate to be transferred to surgical departments and intensive care #RevolutionSyria #Syria #Damascus #Douma: image via Douma Medical @Doumamedical, 9 February 2018
An ambulance from the Damascus countryside field hospital brought in dozens of women and children wounded in today's bombing of Douma, with injuries ranging from severe to moderate to be transferred to surgical departments and intensive care #RevolutionSyria #Syria #Damascus #Douma: image via Douma Medical @Doumamedical, 9 February 2018
An ambulance from the Damascus countryside field hospital brought in dozens of women and children wounded in today's bombing of Douma, with injuries ranging from severe to moderate to be transferred to surgical departments and intensive care #RevolutionSyria #Syria #Damascus #Douma: image via Douma Medical @Doumamedical, 9 February 2018
DSC_1175: photo by Andrey Gontarev, 6 June 2015
End of the Bench | SOMEBODY's gotta sit there [Vancouver]: photo by Dan Fairchild, 18 January 2018
#Douma three days ago Searching for survivors under rubble after several airstrikes on #EasternGhouta #WhiteHelmet: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 9 February 2018
#Now Assad's warplanes targeted civilians by several air raids on the #EasternGhouta near #Damascus #IsraelF16Fall: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 10 February 2018
Plumes
of smoke billow over the rebel-held Syrian town of Erbin on February 7,
2018 as air strikes pummel the Eastern Ghouta enclave: photo via AFP News, 9 February 2018
Air strikes batter Syria rebel enclave for fifth day: Hasan Mohammed with Maya Gebeily in Beirut, AFP News, 9 February 2018
Fresh bombardment hit the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, AFP correspondents reported, the fifth straight day of a bombing campaign that has killed more than 240 civilians.
Syrian
warplanes and artillery have battered the enclave's towns since Monday,
trapping thousands of families in makeshift bomb shelters and
overwhelming rescue workers.
World
powers failed to back an appeal by UN officials for a month-long
ceasefire to allow for desperately needed aid deliveries and medical
evacuations.
Bombardment
resumed on several Eastern Ghouta towns on Friday morning, killing 13
civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a
Britain-based war monitor.
At least six were killed in Douma, including two children.
"There were eight families living in this neighbourhood," said Abu Ezzo, a 29-year-old resident of Douma.
"The airplane hit the houses, and every single resident came out either wounded or dead," he said.
One of the raids hit Douma's local civilian council, starting a fire on the upper levels.
Multiple strikes also killed seven civilians in Erbin, where medics reported being overwhelmed by the relentless bombardment.
Friday's
toll was less than on previous bloody days, but it put the week's
deaths at more than 240 including 60 children, according to the
Observatory.
Aid workers 'all alone'
Eastern Ghouta is home to an estimated 400,000 people who have lived under crippling government siege since 2013.
More than 4,000 families live in basements and bunkers for fear of air strikes.
Relief organisations on Friday warned that the intensity of the air strikes was hampering life-saving aid operations.
"Our
partners are having a hard time moving around, so how can they reach
vulnerable people?" asked Joelle Bassoul, CARE International's
communications director for Syria.
"If there is no ceasefire, if this is all left unheard, we cannot imagine the scale of the humanitarian disaster," she said.
Mercy Corps said members of its local relief partners have been killed in bombardment in recent months.
"People
are dying and aid workers trying to help them are dying also. These
Syrian aid workers are all alone -- they are the only ones trying to
help their communities," said senior communications officer Christy
Delafield.
"This
is a de-escalation area, but this is some of the worst violence we've
seen in what's now going on eight years of conflict," she told AFP.
Eastern Ghouta is ostensibly included in a "de-escalation" deal reached last year in an attempt to reduce the bloodshed.
UN
aid officials appealed this week for a month-long humanitarian truce to
allow aid to be delivered and the sick and wounded brought out for
treatment.
But
the Security Council on Thursday failed to support the proposal, with
long-time regime ally Moscow dismissing it as "not realistic".
Russia says the rebels in Eastern Ghouta are "terrorists", and has previously backed Syrian government offensives against them.
'Unbearable deterioration'
On
Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron asked his Russian counterpart
Vladimir Putin to help ease civilian suffering in the enclave.
Macron
urged Putin "to do everything so that the Syrian regime puts an end to
the unbearable deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Eastern
Ghouta", a statement said.
As
it is last rebel-held district on the capital's doorstep, the
government is more determined than ever to clear Eastern Ghouta, said
Nick Heras, an analyst at the Center for New American Security.
"This
strategy of laying siege to the Ghouta is at its basic element a
strategy of collective punishment, of making the entire population of
the area suffer for its choice to rebel against Bashar al-Assad and his
regime," he told AFP.
Syria's
conflict began with widespread protests against Assad's rule in 2011,
but a crackdown on demonstrations paved the way for a complex war
drawing in world powers.
The
US-led coalition on Thursday said it hit forces allied to the Damascus
regime in eastern Syria and that at least 100 pro-regime fighters were
killed.
US
Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said the coalition acted in self-defence
after pro-Damascus forces moved on an area under the control of the
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
The
Syrian foreign ministry condemned the bombardment as a "war crime"
against its forces fighting the Islamic State (IS) group, an accusation
echoed by the Russian ambassador to the UN.
Eastern Ghouta. Map of Damascus locating areas of the besieged rebel enclave in Eastern Ghouta hit by regime strikes since February 1.: image via AFP News, 9 February 2018
A family runs for cover through the dust cloud kicked by an air strike on the rebel-held Syrian town of Jisreen, on February 8, 2018: image via AFP News, 9 February 2018
Wounded pro-regime fighters receive treatment in the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on February 8, 2018 after US-led air strikes which Russia described as "criminal".: photo by AFP, 8 February 2018
3 Russian airstrikes have completely destroyed my warm childhood house: image via Firas Abdullah @firasabdullah, 10 February 2018
3 Russian airstrikes have completely destroyed my warm childhood house: image via Firas Abdullah @firasabdullah, 10 February 2018
3 Russian airstrikes have completely destroyed my warm childhood house: image via Firas Abdullah @firasabdullah, 10 February 2018
3 Russian airstrikes have completely destroyed my warm childhood house: image via Firas Abdullah @firasabdullah, 10 February 2018
We (people live in #EasternGhouta) say to world: Any interference in the holocaust is welcome. #SaveGhouta @amer_almohibany: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 10 February 2018
Assad's wife (asmaa assad) published pictures of rockets that kill our children in the #EasternGhouta and wrote : "be safe our country's guards". This is shameful. #syria: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 10 February 2018
#Israel reiterates demand that #Iran
troops and allied fighters like Hizbullah should not be close to its
border - Israel ambassador to Russia said: they should withdraw from
deescalation zone in southern #Syria: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 10 February 2018
One
outcome of the #Israeli attack against Assad earlier this morning, that
No airstrikes have hit #EasternGhouta today so far - I’d pray that
Israel do more - despite they are war
criminals as well - But this is having effect on Syrian lives - at least
for today.: tweet via Zouhir_AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, 10 February 2018
The
#Russians who are number one ally of #Israel and who supported
Assad regime with S-400 Air system have allowed Assad to hit their ally
(Israel)!!!! for what sake!?
Is Assad priority for Russians more than Israel - Of course not.
What a show seriously! #F-16: tweet via Zouhir_AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, 10 February 2018
Today's escalation between the #Israeli army and the Syrian army of civilians may have saved hundreds of children in the #EasternGhouta from daily death under rubble by airstrikes of the Assad regime warplanes. #Syria #IsraeliF16Fall: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 10 February 2018
The Israeli army: The raids targeted 3 Syrian air defense batteries and 4 Iranian targets near #Damascus #IsraeliF16Fall. The report came after the Israeli military said one of its fighter jets had crashed during strikes against "Iranian targets" in Syria after intercepting a drone.: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 10 February 2018
Again, Israeli airstrikes on a military factory in Aleppo countryside.
It seems it's going to escalate between Assad and Israel if Russia will not manage it.: tweet via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 10 February 2018
More than 235 people got killed in #EasternGhouta since the beginning of this month
injured #Children receive first aid in a hospital after a bombing in #Douma, #EasternGhouta @epaphotos @Guardian: image via Mohammed Badra @badramamet, 10 February 2018
6 yr old Yehya who was injured after a cluster bomb exploded near him a day earlier, lies in a hospital in rebel-held #Douma #Syria Photo @badramamet @epahotos: image via Sunday Times Pictures @STPictures, 2 February 2018
An ambulance from the Damascus countryside field hospital brought in dozens of women and children wounded in today's bombing of Douma, with injuries ranging from severe to moderate to be transferred to surgical departments and intensive care #RevolutionSyria #Syria #Damascus #Douma: image via Douma Medical @Doumamedical, 9 February 2018
An ambulance from the Damascus countryside field hospital brought in dozens of women and children wounded in today's bombing of Douma, with injuries ranging from severe to moderate to be transferred to surgical departments and intensive care #RevolutionSyria #Syria #Damascus #Douma: image via Douma Medical @Doumamedical, 9 February 2018
An ambulance from the Damascus countryside field hospital brought in dozens of women and children wounded in today's bombing of Douma, with injuries ranging from severe to moderate to be transferred to surgical departments and intensive care #RevolutionSyria #Syria #Damascus #Douma: image via Douma Medical @Doumamedical, 9 February 2018
An ambulance from the Damascus countryside field hospital brought in dozens of women and children wounded in today's bombing of Douma, with injuries ranging from severe to moderate to be transferred to surgical departments and intensive care #RevolutionSyria #Syria #Damascus #Douma: image via Douma Medical @Doumamedical, 9 February 2018
my warm childhood house
DSC_1175: photo by Andrey Gontarev, 6 June 2015
and then the setting sun cut through the marine layer and vaporously incarnadined it
the selfsame bloodred sunset out through and beyond the headlands made the encroaching evening
light a gift to the unforgiven
who stayed silent because unable to communicate sympathy, just in time
out beyond the bridge the light disappearing by NE wind scarified
into clarity
out beyond the bridge the light disappearing by NE wind scarified
into clarity
End of the Bench | SOMEBODY's gotta sit there [Vancouver]: photo by Dan Fairchild, 18 January 2018
No Parking
Untitled: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 7 January 2018
Untitled: photo by Tonatiuh Cabello, 12 October 2017
Untitled | Kolkata, 2018: photo by Koushik Sinha Roy, 21 January 2018
Untitled | Kolkata, 2018: photo by Koushik Sinha Roy, 21 January 2018
DSC_7304: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 12 December 2017
DSC_7304: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 12 December 2017
DSC_7304: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 12 December 2017
Surf in Munich: photo by Giacomo Vesprini, 24 September 2017
Surf in Munich: photo by Giacomo Vesprini, 24 September 2017
Lovers [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 29 December 2017
Lovers [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 29 December 2017
Untitled | Kolkata, 2018: photo by Koushik Sinha Roy, 21 January 2018
Untitled | Kolkata, 2018: photo by Koushik Sinha Roy, 21 January 2018
DSC_7304: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 12 December 2017
DSC_7304: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 12 December 2017
DSC_7304: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 12 December 2017
Surf in Munich: photo by Giacomo Vesprini, 24 September 2017
Surf in Munich: photo by Giacomo Vesprini, 24 September 2017
Lovers [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 29 December 2017
Lovers [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 29 December 2017
Dylan: Jokerman (live, c 2000)
ReplyDeleteStanding on the waters casting your bread While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing Distant ships sailing into the mist, You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing Freedom just around the corner for you But with the truth so far off, what good will it do? Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, Bird fly high by the light of the moon, Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman So swiftly the sun sets in the sky, You rise up and say goodbye to no one Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don't show why Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, Bird fly high by the light of the moon, Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman You're a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds, Manipulator of crowds, you're a dream twist Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space, Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, Bird fly high by the light of the moon, Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman Well, the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, Preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks, Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain, False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin, Only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin' in Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, Bird fly high by the light of the moon, Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman You're going to Sodom and Gomorrah But what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame, You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, Bird fly high by the light of the moon, Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed, Michelangelo indeed could've carved out your features It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery gray, A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, Take the motherless children off the street And place them at the feet of a harlot Oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants, Oh, Jokerman, you don't show any response Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, Bird fly high by the light of the moon, Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone (live, Cardiff 2000)
Bobby's leetle geetar throwdown on Jokerman there though - do admit.
ReplyDeleteBefore the joints go completely, the golden hour,