{"id":183700,"date":"2019-02-13T04:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T04:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183700"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:41:25","slug":"syria-70-civilians-killed-and-injured-in-latest-coalition-massacre-near-deir-ezzor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183700","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA: 70 Civilians Killed and Injured in Latest Coalition Massacre Near Deir Ezzor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2019\/02\/12\/syria-70-civilians-killed-and-injured-in-latest-coalition-massacre-near-deir-ezzor\/\">21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Wire \u2013 Feb 12, 2019<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-US-jets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-183703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-US-jets.jpg\" alt=\"1-US-jets\" width=\"540\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-US-jets.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-US-jets-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Despite repeated announcements by Donald Trump that the US would be withdrawing its military assets from their illegal occupation in northeastern Syria, the civilian death toll at the hands of US-led Coalition continues to mount.\u00a0 This week, it has been revealed that a further 70 civilians, many of them women and children, have been killed and injured by another Coalition bombing raid. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One of the regular techniques employed by western governments and their media functionaries to successfully deflect any public criticism for illegal operations in Syria \u2013 has been to frame Coalition bombing campaigns as \u201ctargeting ISIS controlled areas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This especially includes the framing of the US-led Coalition\u2019s relentless firebombing of Raqqa in northeastern Syria in 2017. Far from destroying ISIS in Raqqa, the US and its proxy militias, the Kurdish SDF forces \u2013 had already allowed hundreds of the top ISIS terrorist militants and officers to escape the city \u2013 even allowing them to take their arms with them. This was even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-middle-east-41977894\/how-did-is-fighters-escape-from-raqqa\">admitted by the BBC<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. After this operation was complete, the US Coalition waged the bulk of their bombing campaign on the city, proceeding to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/world\/mena\/us-coalition-airstrikes-in-syria-kill-over-3-000-civilians-monitoring-group-1.773497\">slaughter at least 3,000 Syrian civilians<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the process, including <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/11\/09\/664360606\/entire-families-wiped-out-u-s-airstrikes-killed-many-civilians-in-syria?t=1549977980462\">entire families who were wiped out<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>by Coalition carpet munitions. The media turned a convenient blind eye at the time by following the US State Dept dictates that the US was simply \u201cbombing ISIS.\u201d\u00a0 To this day, the US are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2018\/07\/syria-us-led-coalition-deeply-in-denial-about-civilian-casualties-in-raqqa\/\">still in denial<\/a><\/strong><\/span> about their reckless operation and mass civilian slaughter in Raqqa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The pattern continued this week, as Coalition continue to claim it\u2019s sole mandate is \u2018eliminating ISIS.\u2019 In reality, they are attempting to bait Damascus and Moscow into a fight, as any retaliation by the Syrian or Russian armed forces in Syria against the US would give Washington and Tel Aviv the pretext they so desperately need to escalate tensions and war in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=158266\">SANA<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><em> reports\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Deir Ezzor, SANA- Warplanes of the US-led \u201cInternational Coalition\u201d on Tuesday continued aggression on the Syrian territories through shelling al-Baghouz town in Deir Ezzor countryside claiming the lives of scores of civilians and injuring others, mostly women and children.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Local sources in Deir Ezzor told SANA that at least 70 civilians were martyred or injured, mostly women and children on the outskirts of al-Baghouz town in airstrikes launched by warplanes of the \u201cInternational Coalition\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The sources indicated that the coalition\u2019s airstrikes targeted a camp that embraces hundreds of civilians who fled the shelling by the coalition and the terrorism of Daesh (ISIS), indicating that the number of martyrs is more likely to rise due to the critical conditions of some of the injured and the difficulty of hospitalizing them due to the continued shelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This massacres comes just hours after warplanes of the \u201cInternational Coalition\u201d committed another massacre in al-Baghouz village as 24 civilians were martyred mostly women and children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Source: Ruaa al-Jazaeri for <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=158266\">Sana TV<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killing goes on, barely even mentioned in the western media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria","category-Unreported_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183705,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183700\/revisions\/183705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}