March 14 Denounces Madaya Siege, Says Hizbullah Involvement 'Shameful'
The March 14 General Secretariat denounced on Friday what it described as a “starvation siege” in the Syrian town of Madaya, dubbing Hizbullah's role as “an act of shame.”
“The Syrian town of Madaya is witnessing a siege of starvation that amounts to crimes of war and can be classified in the category of crimes against humanity,” a March 14 alliance statement said.
“The Lebanese, who in principle refuse Hizbullah's participation in the war against the Syrian people, see that Hizbullah’s involvement in the siege and starvation is a shameful act that contradicts its 'political ethics' which the party claims to uphold,” added the statement.
“The international community is required to take an immediate initiative to find ways to enter relief materials in order to save the inhabitants of this town,” it added.
“The judicial parties and international human rights authorities must take the necessary measures to bring to justice all those responsible for this crime of the pillars of the Syrian regime, its allies and supporters,” added the statement.
On Thursday, Syria's government gave permission for U.N. aid deliveries to three besieged towns of Fuaa, Kafraya and Madaya near Damascus where residents say people are starving to death.
The three towns are part of a landmark six-month deal reached in September for an end to hostilities in those areas in exchange for humanitarian assistance.
Madaya has last received humanitarian assistance in October but has since been inaccessible "despite numerous requests," according to a statement from the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Around 40,000 people, mostly civilians, live in Madaya in Damascus province, many of them displaced from the neighboring rebel stronghold of Zabadani.
Reports have claimed lately that Hizbullah has a hand in the Madaya siege, which the party slammed in a report it issued on Thursday.
Hizbullah has been fighting alongside the Syrian regime since the war erupted .
08 January 2016, 13:16
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Get out of the Syrian affairs before the next car bomb in retaliation of your interference with other country business such as in 2006. Then you start crying about it after the poor civilian casualties. You want to plant hashishi in the bekaa instead of carrying arms as in 50 years ago you outlaw militia then be our guest maybe you can help the economy...
08 January 2016, 13:24
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Indeed mowaten, in fact all syrian are with assad's regime but all this is just a conspiracy theory by wahabi/zionist/imperialists..14 march guys..
Retard...:)
08 January 2016, 13:29
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Indeed again mowaten ta2ez population are all pro huouthies and saleh and were waitting for the mehdi and it is those wahabi/zionist/imperialist.. Who are besieging them..
As for the palestinian cause assad by spliting fateh to fateh intifada, plfp with fplp general comand, iran with is modern and secular jihad al islami (like our secular islamic resistance) did all
This for the palestinian cause... Labayka ya nosrollah...
Not than the other retard arab coutry did better but please learn ur history before coming lecturing others....
08 January 2016, 13:52
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I was just approving what u were saying mowaten, why r u getting upset?
Yes madaya people like all other syrian love assad regime and iranian millicias, and the evel saudit usa...are besieging them...
:)
08 January 2016, 14:03
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The trolls says:
1) The inhabitants demonstrated in favor of the Syrian government
2) They were punished by the rebels with starvation and he quotes souria4syrians;)
Fine.... if that was the case then why did the regime agree yesterday to allow the U.N to admit food and medicine into Madaya!?
why did the regime's Ahmad Shalash tweet the following on his account:
“أعلن من هنا عن رفضي القاطع لسياسة التجويع المطبقة على المناطق الخارجة عن السيطرة ولا سيما (مضايا) و أقترح تطبيق سياسة الحرق الكامل حتى لا يبق من يجوع في تلك المناطق .. اليوم مضايا و بكرا الغوطة و الحبل على الجرار”.
http://www.lebanese-forces.com/2016/01/07/ahmad-shlash/
What is nauseating is your shameless paid propaganda.
08 January 2016, 14:05
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eh no he's fighting them all on his own. 4 years and still standing, chuck norris is nothing next to bashar.
08 January 2016, 14:09
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For those who do not know who Ahmad Shalash is, he is a Member of Assad's Parliament and you can find his tweet on his Twitter official account.
08 January 2016, 14:19
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The takfiris can lift the siege on the Idlib cities, then we will see what happens.
08 January 2016, 14:19
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March 14 should join the people of Madaya, then I will believe their garbage.
By the way, most civilians already left that city. It is full of Nusra now
08 January 2016, 14:31
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Mistik since all syrian are with assad or they are al noseah da3ech and co, i wasnot expecting less from u as an answer...
U are all getting as retarded as tric in ur coments...
08 January 2016, 14:31
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ex-fpm: "Fine.... if that was the case then..."
There are no "ifs" ya ex-fpm, havent you watched the videos?
And yes, the regime said yesterday that they allowed the humanitarian relief, it doesnt mean they didnt allow it before. Would you have wanted the regime to oppose it? I dont get it!
What Madaya needs now is the rebels to allow it, maybe you should be barking up that tree
08 January 2016, 15:00
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Mowaten do u really believe that the rebel are besieging madaya????
Wait u also think that rebels killed themself with chemical bombs in ghouta(which is still resisting till now), that israel killed hariri, hawi assir... That smaha was full of goodwill but got tricked to get the bomb from mamlouk, that hezbollah now great martyr was fixing boutross harb elevator..
So yes u probably believe that the rebel are starving madaya and march 14 are making up all the story..
More and more retarded... Reall man stop watching sana/al manar, it is missing with ur neurons real bad...
08 January 2016, 15:41
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"Mowaten do u really believe that the rebel are besieging madaya????"
No, tryu to focus for a second: What I'm saying is that the rebels inside madaya who are besieged by the army are holding the civilians hostage.
Note that the deal made recently with zabadani, fua and kefraya also included madaya. The civilians were supposed to be evacuated but it didnt happen. Now based on the videos posted above, it appears that the rebels are the ones preventing that, and preventing food from reaching them. And on top of it all they are using the images of these starved people to make this propaganda campaign.
08 January 2016, 15:49
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@the.right.dude: lol how does it feel to be a tough boy on the internet?
08 January 2016, 15:52
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Zabadani guys are going to turkey man... Well mowaten please listen to something else than nasser kandil and wahab, try tiji for a change it will still be some improvment..
Man u really believe what u write?...
08 January 2016, 17:03
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Residents of a Syrian town a few dozen miles from the capital, Damascus, say they are dying of starvation as a result of a months-long siege by forces loyal to the government of Bashar al-Assad.
Assad’s forces are now starving Madaya and neighbouring Zabadani, once a stronghold of the opposition, after a punishing six-month campaign.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/residents-besieged-syrian-town-madaya-starved-to-death
Since July 2015, a siege has been imposed by the Syrian government forces around the town of Madaya
http://www.msf.org/article/syria-siege-and-starvation-madaya-immediate-medical-evacuations-and-medical-resupply
pityful baathist propagandists mooowaten the souri and southern the traitor....
08 January 2016, 17:17
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The one who savagely tortured hamza al khatib the 13years old boy and sent his body to his parents for writing some freedome slogans pn the wall never would have done this.. Or was it another story created by sauvage westerners also??
U re becoming less and less inhuman southern... A shame...
08 January 2016, 17:36
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Well u can play on my misspelling as much as u want as long as u got my point, no compassion at all, those are civilians...
08 January 2016, 17:54
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I feel for the plight of Syrians in Madaya, but all signs point to the theory that this is some kind of propaganda. Why are all those people shirtless? Since when do Syrian men hang out shirtless. Not to mention, it's winter.
08 January 2016, 18:19
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Iran and hizeb al kizeb will eventually go down... we will all be here to see this happen. they are the source of terrorism.
