Wow “children and hospital” propaganda has been used since WW1. Can’t these activist groups and their tame whores at the BBC come up with better propaganda then this?
Women & Children = wives and kids of terrorists.
Untrustworthy. Information coming from the BBC has just as much chance being completely false as being true. They are not a credible organization. Same with the old-line US media outlets.
The “ de escalation zone” provides cover over one of the diminishjng areas of Syria where villages and captured kidnapped hostages are held captive by cruel radical islamist militias including ISIS.
Ask the Syrian people of Ghouta Aleppo Damascus and Homs how they felt about being liberated by their national army the SAA.
These radicals are given fair opportunity to surrender and join the national army, or to be evacuated with their families to Idlib. Those choosing to stay and fight refuse to let civilians leave and put them in harms way as shields.
Its a tragedy for 90 civilians to die but its also a dam miracle considering the difficulty of the battle and the fanatacism of the enemy. By comparison to how the Russians and Syrians are fighting - look at the rubble and casualties of Raqqa and Mosul after we “ liberated” them.
Btw notice the report that Assad is fighting “ rebels”
Aka ISIS and al Qaeda
Thats like calling MS-13 “rebels” and letting them “ peacefully “ control swaths of America in “ de escalation zones”
Update: I am reading that the Russians are working hard to get these radicals to accept generous terms that havent been offered to other militants - such as staying in the area and forming police and local govt organizations - in return for surrendering weapons and working with Jordan and Russia to allow return of refugees
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