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School in Syria’s Idlib province not hit by airstrike, drone photos show – Russian MoD
According to Western Media outlets they are reporting that the White Helmets claim that a school was bombed by Russia or Syrian forces killing as many as 22 children and 6 teachers. The group called the Whit Helmets have been exposed on numerous occasions for their hoax footage, as well as members have been involved in war crimes.
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Airstrikes in Syria killed up to 22 people, mostly children, on Wednesday when warplanes struck a residential area housing a school complex in the northern rebel-held province of Idlib, activists and rescue workers said.
And from RT
School in Syria’s Idlib province not hit by airstrike, drone photos show – Russian MoD
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Russian Defense Ministry
RT,
27 October, 2016
The
Russian Defense Ministry says that it dispatched a drone to analyze
the site of Wednesday’s alleged bombing of a school in Idlib,
Syria. The ministry says that the aircraft spotted no evidence of
airstrikes, and accused the White Helmets of faking digital images of
the attack.
“On
Thursday, a Russian UAV was directed to the area, to conduct detailed
digital photography,” said
a statement from Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor
Konashenkov. “As
can be seen from the photos taken by the drone, there are no signs of
damage to the roof of the school, or craters from airstrikes around
it.”
“We
have analyzed the photo and video ‘evidence’ of the supposed
attack. The video published in a range of Western media outlets
appears to consist of more than 10 different shots, filmed at
different times of the day, and in different resolutions that were
edited into a single clip,” continued Konashenkov.
“The
photograph published by AFP shows that only one wall of the school is
damaged, and all the desks inside the classroom are in place. The
outer fence seen through the hole has no traces of damage from bomb
fragments. In a genuine airstrike this is physically impossible –
the furniture would have been swept away by the blast wave, and there
would have been damage marks on the classroom wall and the outer fece.”
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Omar Haj Kadour / AFP
The
Moscow official said that the findings of the Russian drone could be
verified by the American side, as during its photo mission, a US
MQ-1B Predator UAV was in the same area.
Konashenkov
also added that it is an “indisputable
fact” that
no Russian Air Force plane was present in the airspace in the
vicinity of the school on the morning of the supposed attack.
The
attack was first reported by the controversial two-man,
London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Civil
Defense Network, also known as the White
Helmets,
which claimed that 22 children and six teachers died in an aerial
assault on Wednesday morning.
Later
the same day, Anthony Lake, executive director of UNICEF, called the
incident a “tragedy” and
an “outrage,” and
said that “if
deliberate” it
amounted to a “war
crime.”
“Our
evidence points to UNICEF falling victim to another scam from the
White Helmet fraudsters. Before making resonant statements, UNICEF
should check its sources more carefully, to protect the reputation of
the respected organization,”continued
Konashenkov.
The
White Helmets is a Western-funded volunteer civil defense body that
operates in Syria. Its official mission is to offer first aid to
victims of bombings, but Syrian and Russian authorities have accused
the White Helmets of spreading anti-government propaganda, and of
close ties with Islamist rebels.
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Russian Defense Ministry
France, US accused Russia and Assad of bombing
Despite
an absence of independent verification of Wednesday’s incident,
several leading Western powers were quick to pin the blame on Moscow
or Damascus.
"We
don't know yet that it was the Assad regime or the Russians that
carried out the air strike, but we know it was one of the two," White
House spokesman Josh Earnest said during a press briefing in
Washington on Thursday. "Even
if it was the Assad regime that carried it out, the Assad regime is
only in a position to carry out those kind of attacks because they
are supported by the Russian government."
"Who
is responsible? In any case it is not the opposition because you need
planes to launch bombs. It's either the Syrians – the regime of
Assad – or the Russians," French
Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told the media in Paris. "It's
yet another demonstration of the horror of this war, which is a war
against the Syrian people, which we cannot accept."
In
recent weeks, both France and the US have leveled the accusations of
war crimes against Bashar Assad and the Russian military,
particularly in relation to events in Aleppo, where a multi-faction
battle continues to rage.
UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was "appalled" by
the reported incident and called for "an
immediate and impartial investigation of all attacks against
civilians," his
spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, as cited by Reuters.
Before
Thursday’s revelations from the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian
officials have also publicly supported a full inquiry into the school
attack, while denying any responsibility.
Meanwhile
the Americans have killed at least 300 civilians in 11 strikes in
Syria.
US
killed at least 300 Syrian civilians in 11 strikes - Even Soros
Funded Amnesty Can't Hide it
Around
300 civilians were killed in eleven airstrikes conducted by the
US-led coalition in Syria, which Amnesty International investigated
for its latest report. Amnesty says the US must come clean about the
civilian toll of its fight in Syria.
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