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InternacionalONUMundoOriente Próximo,

t’s been an entire week since the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria — seven days of horror and heartache on a scale we did not experience even in the darkest hours of the Syrian conflict.

Our team of White Helmets volunteer rescue workers in northwest Syria have been working around the clock night and day, pulling survivors from the rubble and searching for signs of life — with virtually no help from the outside world.

Our hope of finding survivors has faded. As we pull more dead bodies from the rubble, my heart breaks for every soul that could have been saved and was needlessly lost because we did not get the help we needed in time.…  Seguir leyendo »

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La Coupe du monde, qui commence cette semaine en Russie, est une mascarade pour nous tous. Depuis jeudi, Vladimir Poutine, l’homme à la tête du gouvernement qui a le plus endommagé l’ordre international que n’importe quel autre depuis des décennies, sera l’hôte du plus grand événement sportif du monde.

L’homme qui a passé des années à soutenir et armer le régime brutal de Bachar al-Assad, à s’emparer par la force du territoire d’un pays voisin et interférer dans nos élections, va briller au sein d’un tournoi sportif probablement obtenu grâce à des pots-de-vin.

On dit que le football rassemble et que la Coupe du monde devrait être un moment de fête où les fans du monde entier applaudissent leurs équipes. …  Seguir leyendo »

An injured child waits after receiving treatment at the university hospital in a government-held neighborhood on Nov. 3, following reported rebel fire on government-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo. (GEORGE OURFALIAN/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)

MundoOriente Próximo, ,

Today, more than 250,000 Syrians remain trapped in besieged eastern Aleppo with limited access to food, clean water and medical supplies. Living under constant aerial bombardment, residents in the eastern part of the city have nowhere to go. Eastern Aleppo is expected to run out of food and medical supplies in 20 days or less, after which we risk losing more than a quarter-million people to mass starvation and restricted access to lifesaving medical care.

Of the quarter of a million people stuck in Aleppo, 100,000 are children. These children cannot eat or sleep without incapacitating fear. Every day, they experience unparalleled levels of trauma and anxiety, making them an especially vulnerable group with only 29 doctors remaining to care for them and their families.…  Seguir leyendo »

A White Helmet volunteer holding the body of a child pulled from the rubble in Aleppo, Syria, this month. Ameer Alhalbi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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I am from a small town in northwestern Syria called Jisr al-Shughour. Before the war I used to buy and sell electronics. In 2013, I joined a small group of fellow Syrians to form the Syrian Civil Defense, better known as the White Helmets, a group of volunteers who rush to the scene of recent bombings to try to save people trapped beneath the rubble. In 2014, my colleagues, now numbering 3,000 men and women, elected me to lead the organization.

Together we have saved more than 60,000 Syrians. Our work is guided by an Islamic principle, written in the Quran: “Whoever saves one life, it is as if he has saved all of humanity.”…  Seguir leyendo »

Smoke billows from the scene of a reported barrel bomb attack in Aleppo on March 5. (Zein Al-Rifai/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)

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No words can adequately describe what it is like to save a life. It is pure elation to find and rescue a baby from beneath mountains of rubble. But for us the elation never lasts because we are constantly under attack.

In Aleppo, as in many Syrian cities, the sky has become an obsession. Children on street corners stand watching for helicopters. A clear sky in the morning means we must prepare for barrel bombs.

Before the uprising, I was an electrical supplies salesman. Today, I lead the biggest rescue operation in Syria. We are more than 2,000 men and women who volunteer as firefighters, search-and-rescue workers and paramedics.…  Seguir leyendo »