{"id":184025,"date":"2019-02-21T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184025"},"modified":"2019-02-24T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T08:29:38","slug":"uk-resettles-100-syria-white-helmets-members-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184025","title":{"rendered":"UK resettles 100 Syria White Helmets members, families"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Feb 21, 2019<\/h1>\n
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This file photo shows a member of the so-called White Helmets “aid” group which independent researchers cite as an example of group members previously being part of terrorist groups in Syria. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Britain has resettled some 100 members of the White Helmets aid group, which is accused of staging fake gas attacks in Syria\u2019s terrorist controlled areas as part of a sophisticated smear campaign against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

UK immigration minister Caroline Nokes told BBC on Wednesday that the government was working with local councils to volunteer to take in White Helmet members and their families as they arrived from Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I have no doubt that the UK going forward will continue to play its part in global resettlement, that we will provide aid,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In July 2018, more than 400 members of the UK-funded White Helmets were forced to flee Syria as Syrian government forces continued advancements towards their positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

On their way out of the country, the group had to cross the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and enter Jordan\u00a0with the help of Israeli soldiers and Western powers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said back then that Tel Aviv helped the group\u2019s evacuation after receiving request from US President Donald Trump and other Western leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

The White Helmets jumped to the center of media attention in April last year, when footage emerged showing a\u00a0suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dramatic video broadcast by BBC showed\u00a0people being treated after an attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hassan Diab shown in Al-Jazeera\u2019s coverage of the alleged chemical attack. Click to see the full-size image<\/p><\/div>\n

Western governments soon pointed fingers at Syria as the perpetrator of the attack but Damascus said it had evidence that the so-called volunteer group had\u00a0staged the whole incident. On April 14, 2018, the US, Britain and France carried out a string of airstrikes against Syria over the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is while Syria surrendered its stockpile\u00a0of chemical weapons in 2014 to a joint mission led by the US and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which oversaw the destruction of the weaponry. It has also consistently denied using chemical weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Syrian\u00a0President Bashar al-Assad has denounced the White Helmets\u00a0as \u201ca branch of the al-Qaeda and\u00a0al-Nusra”\u00a0militant groups and the attack as a \u201cPR stunt\u201d by the US, Britain and France.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, Russia announced that the fabricated BBC footage proved the \u201ctheater of absurd\u201d in Western media\u2019s coverage of events in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe culmination of this theater of absurd may be a statement by a BBC producer, who confirmed based on his own research that the footage had been staged with direct participation of White Helmets,\u201d Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said shortly after BBC Syria producer Riam Dalati discussed the footage on twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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White Helmets with al Qaeda militants. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Besides assisting Takfiri terrorists, the White Helmets also stand accused of organ trafficking and looting Syrian people trapped in conflict areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maxim Grigoriev, director of the Russia-based Foundation for the Study of Democracy, raised the allegations in a report to the United Nations in February last year which featured eyewitness accounts from members of the group.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There is overwhelming evidence which proves that the White Helmets centers were permanently engaged in\u00a0building fortifications for\u00a0battle positions for\u00a0terrorist and illegal armed groups who had been supplying them with\u00a0water and food and evacuating wounded terrorists from\u00a0the front line,” said Grigoriev.<\/span><\/p>\n

The director presented harrowing accounts indicating the group’s involvement in human organ trafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n

“For example, a person receives a minor injury, is rescued, evacuated and then brought back with\u00a0their stomach cut open and with\u00a0their internal organs missing.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Besides being linked to al Nusra, the White Helmets are also reported to have been involved in human organ trafficking. Yet the UK government has offered sanctuary and taxpayer funded support to 100 of them and their families <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184025","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=184025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184027,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184025\/revisions\/184027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}