About Richard Medhurst: #RichardMedhurst is an independent journalist and commentator. Regular live streams and interviews with popular guests from the Left such as Glenn Greenwald, Mike Figueredo (Humanist Report) and Max Blumenthal (Grayzone). Fluent in English, Arabic, French, German, and having grown up across several continents, Medhurst’s show aims to provide a critical analysis of electoral politics and international affairs from an anti-imperialist viewpoint. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqE31EtIhOQ
I talk about Russian/Syrian alliance, Israeli attacks on Syrian civilian infrastructure and the S300 deployment.
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The Aleppo Medical Association
One of the other meetings we had during our time in Aleppo, was with the Aleppo Medical Association. We met with the director Dr Zahar Buttal and Dr Bassem Hayak, who was in charge of the medical teams assessing refugees from East Aleppo who fled to West Aleppo via the Russian and Syrian state humanitarian corridors, created on the 29th July, that have allowed over 2000 people to escape the terrorist strongholds to safety, food and medical care in West Aleppo. These figures were given to us by the Aleppo Medical Association on the 15th August 2016.
One of the questions I asked Dr Hayak, who spoke good English, was what he knew of the White Helmets. His response was concise and without preamble. His family is still in East Aleppo and although he has not been able to get back into East Aleppo for the last year, his family have told him that the the White Helmets are not known in East Aleppo. I asked again to be sure, and was told again, people/civilians do not know the White Helmets in East Aleppo.
The first response work is carried out by foreign workers from various countries, Pakistan and the Gulf region among them. These foreigners work with Syrian people who are not properly trained in first response, perhaps for only 2 or 3 months training before being allowed to work.
Dr Hayak says, "even with our relationship with WHO (World Health Organisation) and the UN, we still didn't hear about the White Helmets."
Are the White Helmets NATO's ghosts?
Dr Hayak also states quite clearly, he has a cousin working as a doctor in East Aleppo. ISIS and other terrorist factions have forced her to stay in East Aleppo by threatening to kill her family, should she leave for West Aleppo. Dr Hayak said that the majority of civilians in East Aleppo are "hostages".
The civilians in East Aleppo do not know the White Helmet rescue workers.
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Nusra Front or Al Qaeda in Syria have looted all communications infrastructure from Ariha in northern Syria. They have stolen all the steel from the Zayzoun electricity station and now they are looting the pavement stones and the irrigation pipes next to Dar Al Mushrif which feed the Qastoun dam in Al Ghab Plain -.these products are being traded for millions to boost the terrorist income in Syria. Iron was also looted from the Central Prison in Idlib after the building was torn down by the US Coalition/Turkey-backed terrorists.
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I was in East Aleppo for the last 7 days, investigating the Bana Alabed story. Many people have debunked this tale of child exploitation by the teams of NATO aligned media and PR-for-war agencies who have used this 8 year old child as a tool to promote illegal military intervention that will kill more children in Syria. What we discovered was that Bana's house was in the midst of 20 Nusra Front centres and military headquarters and was on the Hell Cannon front line, surrounded by launch pads for the deadly gas cannisters filled with explosives, glass, shrapnel, gas that killed over 11,000 civilians in West Aleppo during the 5 year terrorist occupation of East Aleppo. The majority of those victims were children. This footage is taken from a rooftop less than 200m from Bana's house and it shows clearly how this was a vantage area for the Nusra Front & associated extremist brigades. From here they could fire mortars at will, into West Aleppo and even targeting the SAA held Citadel and Castle that came under vicious attack during the 5 years, but resisted until liberation in December 2016.
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