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Eva Bartlett reports from Syria

Posted by margo on May 10, 2018, 12:58 pm

What’s interesting is that we wouldn’t have got this up-to-the-minute news from Bartlett if we didn’t follow her feed on FaceBook. We had to protect against FaceBook censorship by going into SETTINGS … and ticking the box to SEE Bartlett’s posts FIRST.

If you ensure your Settings allow you to see MediaLens/Off-Guardian/Duran FB Posts First ( as well as other commentators), FB can become a helpful, rolling news platform.
It was probably becoming too helpful, which is why FaceBook – in cohoots with US state – recently started to censor it. But for FB users, there are ways to still follow those alternative journalists who continue to use the FB platform.

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Eva Karene Bartlett on FB this morning — School in Dara’a targeted by more than 50 mortars, from terrorists just 150 metres away. Many children have been killed in these attacks, I was told. The road I stood on taking the photo is in line of potential terrorist snipers. Around the corner, locals were walking quickly, half-running, from the shelling nearby. On the same street, over 40 people have been killed, including a man 5 days ago, I was told. 200 metres down the road were terrorists, so no lingering.

A few minutes drive away, including at high speed down a road exposed to terrorist sniping from less than 100 metres away, the national hospital, itself battered and partially destroyed from terrorists mortars. The director showed me destroyed wards (dialysis and laboratory wards), and off-limits areas die to high risk of sniping (gynecology, operations, blood bank, nursing school, children’s hospital).

Before leaving, I saw a dark plume of smoke from a freshly landed mortar at the court. Earlier we had discussed going to the court, as it was one of the sites targeted by “unarmed protesters” in early 2011. Had we taken less time at the hospital, might have gone there. Good thing we didn’t have time…

This is a glimpse of a Dara’a corporate media doesn’t care to discuss.

Photos:

1. Outer wall of the partially destroyed school from street.
2. Local pointing in direction of terrorists 100 metres beyond.
3. Some of the damage to Dara’a’s national hospital. Much more inside and other side of hospital.
4. Stairwells sandbagged to protect from terrorists attacks.
5. Smoke from mortar near court house.