Children Were Attacked While Going to School
On Thursday, at 8:00 a.m. local time, children in Aleppo were going to school. Right at this time, Islamists shelled the Christian district of Suleiman with mortars.
Almost every day, militants blocked in eastern Aleppo shell the western part of the city and front-line areas. Shelling usually intensifies when the Syrian Army carries out offensive operations.
Several families were among the casualties of the shelling. One girl was killed during the shelling and her brother was severely wounded and hospitalized. Doctors are continuing to save his life.
"The shell exploded very close to him. The boy sustained shrapnel wounds and severe brain damage. There are shell fragments in his head. Chances are small, but his heart is still beating and we will fight for his life," Doctor Dzhan Fattouh told RIA Novosti.
According to Syrian doctors, since the beginning of September, a total of over 130 children have been killed in shelling of residential areas. All of them died from shrapnel or gunshot injuries.
Militants shells the western part of Aleppo with mortars and "hellfire" guns, leaving dozens killed and hundreds wounded every day, Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, Chief of the Russian General Staff's Main Operational Directorate, told reporters.
"All the parties involved in the conflict have been committing crimes, including killings, injures, attacks on schools and hospitals as well as blockade of humanitarian supplies. This must be stopped," UNICEF Regional Chief of Communication for Middle East & North Africa Juliette Touma told RT.
Western Media Ignores the Tragedy
"Today, I’ve read and watched news reports, and there was nothing about this shelling," Nikolai Pakhomov, president of the New York Consulting Bureau, said.
"The reason is that American media translates those views of domestic and foreign affairs that correspond with the policy of the US establishment. Its official position is that Syrian President Bashar Assad is to blame for the situation in Syria, and Russia is helping him. The recent shelling of Aleppo contradicts this approach, so the situation has been ignored in media," he pointed out.
However, alternative views of the situation are also presented in Western media.
"Right activists, experts and some media outlets have repeatedly said that Assad’s opponents committed crimes. But the overall situation is what I described," the expert told RIA Novosti.
UN Attempting to Resolve the Aleppo Crisis
Currently, nearly 600 wounded people need to be evacuated as soon as possible from Aleppo, including 400 children. However, the UN does not have the entire list, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy said Thursday.
"Utmost in our mind is the need to address the very concerning medical situation. Many hospitals have been damaged by airstrikes and medical supplies are dwindling. It is estimated that as many as 600 wounded cannot be provided with adequate treatment," he said during a briefing in Geneva.
He also underscored that medical evacuation from Aleppo is impossible until a ceasefire is established in the city.
The situation remains difficult, but there are options to improve it, he added.
One of those scenarios was recently proposed by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura. On October 6, he proposed to accompany militants from the Nusra Front jihadist group if they wanted to leave Aleppo with arms and to head for the city of Idlib. He added that there were some 900 militants of the group in the war-torn city.
However, Ramzy said that al-Nusra Front rejected the proposal.
"De Mistura made an appeal, he made an appeal directed to al-Nusra, but he also made an appeal to those who can help with the appeal. We have heard from al-Nusra, not surprisingly, a negative response," he said.
However, the UN hopes that militants will withdraw from the city.
"Our understanding is that this particular appeal has found resonance in certain quarters, and they are working to make it happen and we hope that this will be the case," Ramzy added.
However, the Syrian government was skeptical about de Mistura’s offer.
"De Mistura was not serious about his proposal because he did not secure it in the UN Security Council," Syrian National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haider told RIA Novosti.
According to the minister, al-Nusra Front militants will not leave Aleppo voluntarily.
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| 0 | Edit | Delete In the war against our mind we are constantly bombarded with lies and misconceptions. In a physical war these are the bullets, the bombs and grenades - the conventional weapons. But increasingly often something comes up that's called reality inversion. A kind of construct falsifying a whole area of life. The reality inversion is intended to fundamentally confuse our mind so that all references to reality are replaced with false representations circularily supporting each other. Once entrapped in the reality inversion there is no escape to the truth zone anymore. The goal is mass destruction of all reliable information within the observation spectrum of the public. Therefore, the reality inversion is the atomic bomb against our mind. Reply 
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| 7 | Edit | Delete Since Russians and other Christian orthodox peoples always has been considered as "untermenschen" (subhumans) by the west, automatically, anybody protected or cared for by Russia becomes subhumans too. Reply 
| -4 | Edit | Delete I disagree sir, dont lump thé people with our corruption goverments and media, we dont give à crap about religion, here your free to worship whatever you want and we dont care, were too much in debt amongst other problèms normal people have to care about stuff like that.
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| 1 | Edit | Delete This may be in Syria far far away from you. Reply 
| 0 | Edit | Delete Concrete Mike, Reply 
| 0 | Edit | Delete That’s why western media is like someone says: Law is made for justice! Of course the law is naturally made for justice but does it really qualify and achieve justice by its rules or just because its name meaning justice?!
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I accuse the Western main stream media of reality inversion.
Concrete Mike
Thé CBC coverage on Syria is disgusting. Even more on thé radio. You should hear some of thé pundits they find, they dont even admit that its al nusra holding east aleppo. Very poor journalism that my tax dollars are funding.
À stone cold shame, shame on all of us in thé west
Mikhas
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Have a nice day!
copius
But if not stopped it will come to your homes wherever you are on this planet.
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Your points do align with Mikhas, as you both recognize that it's the
Western governments per se, not the people, who choose the respective
targets in wars and oppression.
Ibrahim Ahmad
The same situation with western media, being called “news channels” which naturally this title is sorted under “media” it doesn’t mean these channels will show real events and news on their screens even if will stay sorted under “media”
The western media as such as any other media uses its personal agendas to achieve its ambitious whether it’s financial, political or personal.
Therefore, following and watching any media should be controlled by the logical sense of people themselves and regardless of the goals of this media which sometime could be favoured for some people or close to their concepts.
For example: When you watch an event on western media says: “Some government committed crimes in its people”
First, you’ve to find out the nature of relation between the owner/owners of this media or local policies that this media is working in and the government that has appeared in this event, and then seek for the honesty of this event after.
In the most laws the witnesses whom are relatives to the guilty person in some case, their opinions in the same case able to be overruled and dismissed by the judge - or glories depending on the nature of law that related to this supposed case -.
Therefore, in this subject I think the most of western media are completely controlled even by the local policies or personal agendas of the owners of this media.
Many western media have invested financially in the wars and conflicts whether in the Middle East or anywhere else, while some other is working under hidden agendas whether these hidden agendas were based on religious purposes or geopolitical ones and so on.
Anyway, to me and in general I’m watching western media just for blooper scenes hahah
For example: Some speaker in these channels or a reporter farts on air :D or another one gave birth on live, and that’s it :P
Frankly, I don’t find any kind of honesty – at the most – in the western media as long as this media has the courage to show some radical or bloody scene committed by some government in the Middle East or anywhere else while its stuff shutting F*** up when the subject is related to this bacterial germ called israel.
It’s so disgusting watching most of western media repeat the bloody scene and crimes that committed by some fascist or radical governments in the Middle East or anywhere else while there are thousands of victims per every year have been killed or their houses have been destroyed by this bacterial germ called israel. Even though, you won’t find a sense or a movement against this crimes or even a sign about committing them by this bacterial germ called israel on western media!
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