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Video footages from Ghouta published by a Swedish newspaper as in Afrin

Video footages from Ghouta published by a Swedish newspaper as in Afrin

Ahmad Primo Ahmad Primo   Sunday 11th March 2018

Ahmad Primo Ahmad Primo   Sunday 11th March 2018

The Swedish newspaper official website "Expressen" shared a report a few days ago, which presented interviews with the people of Afrin, Syria, during which they talked about the casualties and injuries caused by Operation Olive Branch.

During the report, several shots documenting violent shelling and extensive destruction in residential buildings, and smoke rising as a result of shelling as rescue teams worked to evacuate the wounded.

Verify-Sy platform reviewed the report referred to, turned out that most of the footages showed were taken from the eastern Ghouta of Damascus, which has been exposed for nearly a month to the campaign of aerial and artillery bombardment caused the death and wounding of hundreds of civilians.

The footage shows at 00:12 the logo of "Damascus Media Center", documenting the rising of smoke columns as a result of the targeting of the cities and towns of al-Ghouta with the explosive barrels by helicopters and warplanes, posted on the Markaz channel on Youtube February 19, 2018.

Another clip at the time 00:52 to 01:01 scenes of evacuating the victims of the bombing on the eastern Ghouta by elements of the civil defense organization "White Helmets" branch of Rif Dimashq - Eastern Ghouta - whose logo appears clear during the footages referred to, an organization does not exist in PYD held areas.

The Afrin enclave is witnessing battles between the opposition factions allied with Turkey, on the one hand, and the militants of the Democratic Union Party PYD on the other hand, killing and wounding dozens of civilians as a result of shelling or clashes between the two sides.

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