Nine years after a chemical weapons attack killed and injured nearly 12,000 people in the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, survivors, witnesses and family members are still fighting for justice, writes Mohamad Katoub.
Rashidieh camp in southern Lebanon hosts around 500 of the country’s 29,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria. They are the latest wave of displaced people to live there in its 83-year history.
White Helmets rescuers treat victims of the Assad regime’s sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun in northwest Syria, April 4, 2017
UPDATE, FEB 4: The UN Security Council has discussed the conclusion of chemical weapons inspectors that the Assad regime lied about a facility producing nerve agents.
The UN’s top disarmament official, Izumi Nakamitsu, summarized the findings of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that the Assad regime’s account “cannot be considered accurate and complete”.
Norway’s Ambassador Mona Juul commented, “No one has been held accountable for these atrocious acts. This is unacceptable.”
Juul expressed “full confidence in the OPCW and its Technical Secretariat”. Without naming Russia and the Assad regime, she continued, “Norway firmly rejects attempts to discredit or bring into disrepute the OPCW….Such attempts against the international community’s efforts in securing accountability and preventing use of Chemical Weapons a