President of
@MedGlobalOrg
. Syrian American, Critical Care Medicine, Humanitarian, War & Refugee Health, Gandhi Award Peace 2020. Chicagoan of the year 2016
Our deep condolences for the tragic death of one of the few Neurologists in
#GazaStrip
, the Palestinian Dr. Moeen Alalool with his five children, as a result of the
#Israeli
bombing of his house in Wahda street in
#Gaza
city
#Gaza_Under_Attack
It is worse than a horror movie. Our lead
@MedGlobalOrg
Pediatrician, Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia is now working alone in the intensive care unit at Kamal Edwan hospital in northern
#Gaza
. He is unable to leave the kids on life support alone despite the orders of evacuation
While the world is fixated on
#Israel
and
#Gaza
, the Assad regime, supported by Iran and Russia, is raining hell, and internationally prohibited cluster bombs, on Darat Azza in northern
#Aleppo
at internally displaced civilians who are trapped with nowhere to go
@USEmbassySyria
Syrian refugees salvage belongings from the wreckage of their shelters at a camp set on fire overnight in the northern Lebanese town of Bhannine on December 27
#Lebanon
Here is the caption
Hello, I am Dr Hussam.
Today is 25/11/23
Praise to God despite of everything.
I am now working alone in this hospital. There is no one with me. No doctors no nursers. There is no medical staff with me. I am alone.
I am doing everything alone.
Praise
Dr. Hussam’s message from
#KamalAdwan
hospital
@NickKristof
“Our doctor, the IDF has just entered the hospital and took all the men and medical staff. I asked to speak with the officer, introduced myself, and informed him that I also work with MedGlobal. I requested the return
I can’t stress how weird, but at the same time expected, what is happening. Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees prefer to walk for days through their homeland to reach an area that is under bombing and war instead of settling in area controlled by Assad and Iranian occupation
The first groups of Syrian refugee families who previously smuggled through areas controlled by Assad have begun crossing into northwestern Syria from northeastern Syria. This marks yet another chapter in the ongoing cycle of endless displacement.
No it is not a celebration of victory in a soccer/football game but it is nightly stampede of
#Syrian
families loading their trucks and cars and fleeing their cities in southern
#Idlib
in the dark so they won’t be bombed during the daylight by Russian jets
@antonioguterres
A
#Syrian
refugee in his 60s who has a successful business in Cairo returned last month to his homeland, after he was assured that he was clear. He disappeared after a few days and no one knows where is whereabouts. He joined 157,000 Syrians who disappeared in Syrian prisons
At least 80 people are confirmed dead in northern
#Syria
, the real number is expected to be much higher. Many victims are inherently rubble. Snow and rain are complicating search and rescue effort. Hospitals are full with the dead and injured
@MedGlobalOrg
@Up_yours_Haftar
@MedGlobalOrg
This is his audio message
Dr Zaher God bless you.
I am speaking from the site of Kamal Edwan hospital in north Gaza.
I had to step out of my hospital temporarily to send you this message. There is no internet inside.
The situation here is much worse and dangerous than
To prevent a full-scale famine as we have witnessed in
#Maday
&
#Zabadani
, due to the siege to kneel tactics by the genocidal
#Assad
regime, we must pressure
#Russia
not to Veto the UNSC resolution & allow free flow of food, medicine & baby milk to 4.2 million civilians in
#Idlib
6 months ago the
@UN
Sec Council voted to close a critical humanitarian crossing point between
#Turkey
&
#Syria
.
MedGlobal is joining 21 other INGOs in calling for full humanitarian access to northwest Syria to be ensured. ⤵️
A Message from a
#Doctor
in
#Gaza
Hello, I am Dr Hussam.
It is November, 25th, 2023
Dear Doctor
God bless you
I am speaking from the site of Kamal Edwan hospital
in north Gaza
Praise to God despite of everything
Our hospital is the only place remained
for healthcare
for
Thank you
@PeteButtigieg
for being the only presidential candidate who cares to address the crimes against humanity committed by
#Assad
/Russia against the civilians in
#Syria
. Never again should not be a mere slogan. We can do something to stop the daily atrocities & bring peace
America's leaders can no longer watch in silence as Assad and Russia attack innocent Idlib civilians. Inaction is a stain on our collective conscience. The international community must use all available tools at its disposal to stop this massacre and provide humanitarian aid.
Carrying your home on your shoulders after your camp is flooded.
Half of the 4.2 million population of Idlib are displaced. 1.4 million of them live in camps
#Syria
#Idlib
#IDPs
Do you know?
At least 30,127 children have been killed in Syria since March 2011, including 198 due to torture. Additionally, 5,229 children remain detained or forcibly disappeared.
It reminds me of the evacuation of
#Aleppo
in January 2017. The culprits are the same. The faces of traumatized civilians are the same. The UN facilitated the ethnic cleansing. Eastern Aleppo was destroyed for good. Evacuees never returned. No accountability whatsoever.
Evacuation of civilians from Mariupol Azovstal began. A first group of 100 evacuees on the way to Zaporizhzhia. It is hard to imagine what these women and children went through in those two months.
A father and son displaced from
#Ghouta
. The child was born without legs. The mother was exposed to Nerve gas in 2013. It is impossible to measure the real impact of the gas massacre on born children without an epidemiological study
Now living in
#Idlib
#Syria
“Each “barrel” cost us $100 while long range missile cost $500,000.” What an earth-shaking invention! Rare admission and glorification of the “barrel bomb” invented by the
#Syrian
Air Intelligence and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and mutilation among civilians.
Finally it is happening. AMERICANS demonstrate in front of the
#Russian
embassy in DC against their genocide in Syria. If every capital in major western country has the same thing, Putin will feel the heat
#GhoutaGenocide
Thread on
#SyriaCorona
.
1. There are unofficial reports by regime supporters of more than 2,470 cases of
#Corona
resulting in 427 deaths mostly in Damascus, Latakia and Tartous. Officially there are no cases of
#coronavirus
in Syria
#COVID19
“We do not have enough clean water, our water is contaminated and 40 paediatric patients presented with gastroenteritis infections due to the contaminated water,”Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, lead doctor
@MedGlobalOrg
who heads the hospital's children's department
Once again the targeting of hospitals is big news in the context of the
#IsraelWar
on
#Gaza
, the same way it was when
#Assad
&
#Russia
bombed 590 hospitals killing 930 doctors & nurses in
#Syria
. Do we remember Aleppo?
This innocent boy, Timofei Prusakova, is 12 years old. He speaks Ukrainian, English, & German. He wants to become a dentist in the future. He lost his grandmother and his cat in a Russian machine gun attack on his family car while fleeing Kiyv from the advancing Russian army.
When a child injured by dog, it is a big news abd thr video goes viral, but when she is injured by a bomb fired by a fighter jet belongs to the
#Syrian
regime at her house in
#Idlib
, no one cares!
#EyesOnIdlib
@camanpour
The
@OPCW
found a chemical weapons production facility, which
#Syria
declared as never being used for such production. But the review of all the information & materials gathered by the OPCW DAT found that the facility actually was used to produce Sarin gas
Congratulations to my incredible wife, Suzanne Akhras
@SuzanneAkhras
, on her well-deserved victory in the Democratic primary for state representative in district 82.
Her win not only signifies a triumph for common sense, consensus building, and public service but also
Another Syrian doctor killed by
#Assad
/Putin jets. The doctor, Ahmad Shahhad, was killed today in Jarjanaz near Idlib by Syrian regime bombing. More than 820 doctors & nurses were killed by their own government as they are saving lives
@BBCWorld
@cnni
Turkey's effective exercise of military power in Syria's
#Idlib
province not only provides instant relief to three million Syrian refugees, but also exposes former US President Barack Obama's lack of courage in not enforcing his famed "red line."
When is rains, it pours. War, snipers ,
#assad
, attacks on healthcare, chemical weapons, refugee crisis, ISIS, siege, barrel bombs, Russia and Iran, economic collapse, COVID19, Captagon, cholera, frigid temperatures, and now
#earthquake
A
#Syrian
refugee in
#Arsaal
in
#Lebanon
. Her trajectory is early marriage, no education, lifelong mental health trauma and being treated as a second class (non-citizen) forever. If she is resettled in the US, she will have the same opportunities like your and my daughter.
@WHOSyria
@WHO
The
@WHO
has been complicit with the Assad regime in depriving
#Syrian
civilians access to healthcare. Their staff who live in the luxurious Four Seasons hotel are disconnected from reality on the grounds.
Israel is using the same tactics in Gaza that al-Assad employed in
#Syria
The Israeli campaign of dehumanisation to justify the starvation and bombing of civilians in
#Gaza
bears an uncanny similarity to the one used in Syria.
So families walked 4 consecutive days 200 miles, with stuff on their backs fleeing Lebanon to northern Syria just to avoid being persecuted or killed in Assad-controlled Syria. Let that sink in.
With the start of the influx of Syrian
#refugees
into NW
#Syria
, in areas controlled by
#HTS
or the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, de facto authorities have activated a security protocol. New arrivals are being detained until they present a local sponsor to gain entry.
🧵⬇️
A new phenomenon in
#Syria
of parents abandoning their children because they can’t afford to provide to them, like these two children abandoned in Damascus hospital by their father who left a letter apologizing for abandoning them because he could not afford their breakfast
#Syrian
students in
#Idlib
insist to go to their schools to learn in spite of the cold,
#COVID19
, rain, floods and lack of heating and safety. P.s. it is impossible to have online schooling in
#idlib
When I was young, growing in
#Syria
, my uncle, who was in high school, was forcefully disappeared by the father of current president, Hafez al-Assad. I remember my grandmother’s going every week to the Mukhabarat, trying to find some information about him.
And the
#Oscar
goes to
#AsmaAssad
for her role acting as a compassionate misunderstood villain exploiting a displaced
#Syrian
child pulled from under the rubbles of her family apartment in
#Idlib
, while being responsible with her husband for the slaughtering and gassing of 25,000
@DefenceU
@john1966olsen
They did the same in Syria. The world turned a blind eye. Now, they are repeating it in Ukraine. Bullies understand only one language
Syrians are elated that an 8 years old child Sarah Kayali from
#Idlib
won a global competition for mental math organised by Chinese ACIDA’s Brainy Kids program. Syrian children shine in spite of the war and displacement and war.
Congratulations.
I voted against lies, racism, hate, insanity, arrogance, indecency, authoritarianism, corruption, shamelessness, misogyny, conspiracies, and COVID
#GOTV
Guess whom my family and I voted for?
Nour is 45 days old and her sister is 4 years old. They lost their mother due to the
#Syrian
regime’s shelling of
#Idlib
province today. No more mother for Nour and her sister for the rest of their lives
#savelifeline
@antonioguterres
The victims of the
#Russian
bombing in Jabal Alzaweya in
#Idlib
#Syria
, away from the Spotlight, stand in solidarity with the
#Ukrainian
victims of the Russian bombing.
It is estimated that between 7,000-12,000 people are still under the rubble in northwest
#Syria
after
#earthquake
. Shock, bleeding, dehydration, starvation, crush injury, renal failure, and hypothermia will contribute to death
@MedGlobalOrg
A cat is left alone in
#MaaratalNuman
after it was emptied by its human inhabitants due the the
#Russian
/Syrian bombings. 180,000 are displaced. 87 civilians are killed including 21 children & 16 women.
@antonioguterres
is celebrating
#ChristmasDay
. Shame
You are a
#Syrian
child going to school in
#Idlib
in a planet called earth.
#Russian
& Assad jets showed up in the skies. You are amused. Suddenly they bombed your school and killed your teachers and friends.The world shrugged its shoulders and turned the other way
@BernieSanders
Gandhi Peace Award for 2020 honors 2 Syrians. Dr. Sahloul is a pulmonary specialist in Chicago, treating COVID-19 patients. He serves as president of
@MedGlobalOrg
, that provides free health care to refugees and others in disaster zones via
@ShareAmerica
“We want a dignified life and the departure of the oppressors who sold our country & divided our communities “ Husain Radwan, a leader of the non-violent disobedience in
#Sweida
, the grandson of Sultan Alatrash, the leader of the
#Syrian
Revolution against the French occupation
Our deep condolences to the loss of Professor Jacques Beres, the cofounder of
@MSF
.
Dr. Beres is a legend. He cofounded MSF in 1971 with a group of French doctors and humanitarians. He completed more than 140 medical missions as a trauma surgeon in disaster areas risking his
My article in
@ForeignPolicy
about the
#Assad
regime’s election to the
@WHO
governing body
A regime that bombs hospitals and blocks convoys of baby formula does not deserve a leading role in
#global
health.