Press Release
(Translated)
Syrian medical sources have counted up to 350
killed and 1800 injured as a result of the air and artillery bombing undertaken
by the Russian planes alongside the tyrannical regime forces since the
beginning of the vicious campaign against the besieged areas in the city of
Halab (Aleppo) that began on the 15th of November.
In addition to the wide destruction of
properties and the demolishing of buildings upon those living in them, to the
point where all aspects of living and residential areas have disappeared, the
crusader coalition is also targeting hospitals in a number of provincial towns.
It is worth making the point that all the hospitals in the Halab precincts are
out of service after the systematic bombing against them, to prevent them from
providing medical and humanitarian relief to the thousands of innocents who are
being afflicted by the daily bombing. What increases the barbarity of these barbarians
is that they are also targeting hospitals in many other areas and regions.
Syria Watch and the organisations for providing assistance have said that war
planes have bombed the maternity hospital in Idlib that has led to the cessation
of its work.
The director of the Syrian Civil Defence
organisation, known as the White Helmets, mentioned that the doctors and relief
staff in Halab are using only what remains of the equipment after the bombing
campaigns, to do all that that is within their capability, and particularly
after the bombing of the hospitals that had been set up hurriedly following the
destruction of the functioning hospitals within the area. It was also revealed
that the residents of the eastern besieged half of Halab have less than ten days
to receive aid relief otherwise they will be subjected to starvation and death.
The women are spending long periods of time searching in the semi-destroyed
markets to see what they can find to provide nourishment for their children
which has become very difficult due to the high prices because of the markets
being short of essential nutritional materials.
UN Special Envoy to Syria Stefan de Mistura
warned about the possible occurrence of a slaughter in East Halab like the
massacre of Vukovar in 1991 in Croatia by Serbian militias. These warnings are
not new and not the first, as they continue to come with the continuation of
the bombings which have not ceased as a result of those warnings and
condemnations. Indeed for months and also following the targeting of the
hospitals, the UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon considered the attacks upon the
hospitals and the use of deadly weapons to be a “war crime” and that the matter
is “worse than a slaughter house”.
At that time The New York Times
stated that near to 100,000 Syrian children are besieged in the fighting zones
in Halab, indicating that they are part of a quarter of a million Syrians that
are besieged in battles within the city. That is where it has become a normal
and regular scene for the children of Aleppo to be seen being dragged out from
under the rubble with their tattered clothing and dusty faces.
There has been non-stop and repeated suffering
for years before the silence of the world that does not go beyond the timid
condemnations of some of the rulers and their threats to raise the Syrian
tragedy to the security council so that they can procrastinate over it more and
more. It is as if there is no solution except via the UN path where they devote
themselves to it without fatigue or growing tired!! Even if they change the
tone of their warnings, they still request the holding of one meeting following
another, just like when France recently asked for a meeting to be convened soon
for the donor states of the moderate Syrian opposition. Or they describe the
reality as if it has been absent from the minds just like when the German
Chancellor Angela Merkel (recently) stated that the Syrian regime is
deliberately bombing hospitals and health facilities.
Where is the iron (and force) in all of that?!!
Numerical figures rapidly increasing like shares in the major manufacturing
companies where the investors compete to announce their daily profits, profits
upon the blood of children and women, our people in Syria. The intensive and
continuous bombing has become one of the daily scenes presented in the media
whilst the suffering continues of more than 275,000 civilians who are
surrounded by a continuous environment of terror and flight when they hear the
roaring sounds of the planes, which the skies are nearly never free from over
the course of an hour. They come high and low, warning about the resumption of
the dropping of explosive barrels and warning of the impending destruction,
scattered limbs and the spread of the smell of the blood of pure and innocent
children.
All of these statements and condemnations from
the major western states makes the one following them think that the criminals
are residents of outer space or people wearing “invisibility caps”. These empty
statements conform that these states do not shed anything other than crocodile
tears for the innocent victims, children and women who have lost their lives because
of the colonial war which will go on as long as there are sincere
revolutionaries who reject the interference of the West in their lands and the
sale of their respect, for the word of Allah to be raised high.
The women of Syria are not waiting for the
world to remember them on the international (commemoration) days so as to count
how many women were killed, either by torture or bombs, or how many women were
made homeless or arrested. Did her situation change when the world knew that
there has been approximately 30,000 Syrian women who have been killed in the
struggle and war taking place in the land since the beginning of the
revolution?! Indeed, the opposite is true, the talk has already come to be
about the truthfulness and accuracy of this number and questioning the veracity
of these statistics!!
So know, O Muslims, scholars and armies that
the victory does not come except from Allah to a people who support the cause
of Allah by their actions and speech. That is because Allah Ta’Aalaa said:
﴿إِن
تَنصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ﴾
“If you support (the cause of) Allah He
will support you (with victory) and make your feet firm” [Muhammad:
7].
The strength and power does not come from
standing behind the rulers who only earn disgrace from their Lord because they
rule by falsehood. Rather the strength and power comes by following the
guidance of the Messenger of Allah (saw) and seeking to attain the pleasure of
the Lord of the servants by ruling by His Shar’a and by applying the Ahkaam of
Islam that He has chosen for us and perfected for us. That is by working for
the resumption of the Islamic life via the establishment of the rightly guided
Khilafah (Caliphate) upon the methodology of the Prophethood, so that justice
can be spread to the corners of the earth.
Women’s Section
of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
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