On the 22nd January, 2 days after Joe Biden's inauguration, Israel targeted multiple areas in #Syria. The Syrian air defence intercepted the majority of missiles but 4 rockets hit their target in Kazu, a sprawling western suburb of Hama housing 35,000 civilians. One small concrete home was hit almost directly. The rocket fell in the street outside the house where nine family members were living in a tiny one-up-one-down building. Four were killed instantly when the building collapsed and crushed them while they were sleeping. A child injured and rescued from the rubble later died in hospital according to neighbours. Four other family members survived although one was horrifically injured. Shrapnel sliced through their face as they slept. Hossam Al Hussein was one of the neighbours. His shop was also gutted in the attack and the doors and windows of his home were shattered and blown off their hinges. His 12 year old, blind son, Mohammed was asleep when the missiles landed in the narrow, winding street around the house. Here, Hossam explains what happened. He was the first to rush to the aid of the family buried under the debris of the first rocket. Article to follow. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRJKcBfj_4

Zionism has deep roots in Ukraine. Jews were a significant element in the settler colony of Odessa. Along with a range of non Jewish colonizers they settled on land from which Muslims and others had been expelled in the settlement around Khadjibey in 1794. Ukraine, especially Odessa, was a key locus of the rise of the Zionist movement in the twentieth century. The Revisionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky hailed from Odessa. Zionist ambivalence about Ukrainian nationalism continues to this day. A few Ukrainian Zionists have warned of the rise of Nazi movements in Ukraine. But more generally, in the Zionist movement today there has been a concerted attempt to minimize the presence and political influence of Nazis in Ukraine. Zionists are engaging in other words in Nazi apologizm. The much vaunted Ukrainian “counter-offensive” first mooted for the spring of 2023 has thrown up many and varied images and videos of wrecked Western military equipment . The Russian military has made short shrift of even the supposed superior German Leopard tanks. Western military stocks are running perilously low - even Jens Stoltenberg of NATO has sounded the alarm, saying that “our weapons and ammunition stocks are depleted and need to be replenished, not just in Germany, but in many countries across NATO Palestine Declassified ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DL-Fv9QFj8

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Tributes to this beautiful, courageous lady and artist: Ibrahim Muhammad We lost today a very beautiful powerful soul, an amazingly wonderful great heart, here I pay my condolences to us, to Syria, to the world, to all humanity, and most of all to the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army that she cherished the most. Ursula died today, but she has proven to us that miracles can actually happen, and as much as important her art work was as a great honorable legacy to leave for all humanity, she also taught us a very important lesson, that when our will is strong enough we can make our dreams come true. Ursula was a great fearless fighter who fought the most powerful ruthless illness in the world and won, achieving her dream was actually her great vicroty. May she rest in peace, our great warrior. Vanessa Beeley Rest In Peace you beautiful soul - you came to your final resting place in Syria where you always belonged. You will sleep among the heroes and heroines you have always supported. Your body was as frail as a tiny bird but your soul was as powerful as sunlight. The world is a darker place with you gone but the spirit haven will embrace a golden soul who will keep shining upon our world from afar and a more peaceful place. God bless you my dear friend.. this journey is just beginning for you.. go with the love of all your friends around the world and with grace... Thank you my dear friend for showing us what this cruel world is trying to destroy and for showing us that it can never be destroyed. You came to Syria with nothing in your heart but peace and love. Syria gave you love and in the end, peace. You lived until your paintings could be seen by all Syrians and you died as your dream came true. You showed us the simplicity of the love that passes from human to human and you taught us that nothing must destroy this communication. The realisations of the enormity of your role in our lives will increase as the hours increase since your departure from our world... this is your gift beautiful soul - the truth in all its purity and joy. God bless this soul and show her the way home. Sonja Van Ende She went to Syria to die and she did die there, a great painter and artist from Germany.. - Ursula Behr, the painter from Berlin, who’s greatest wish it was, to visit Syria and have her paintings shown there, died peacefully today, after her exhibition opening at the Opera house in Damascus yesterday. Eva BartlettIn memory of the beautiful soul that painted this, Ursula, " Manuela Hochsteadt". Her work touched so many lives. I'm so honoured to have briefly met her, spending an hour with her and her husband in the old city of Damascus. Her courage and strength in the face of a terminal illness was humbling. Her spirit was inspiring. And she was simpl ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yF2TpTcedM