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Syrian President Assad allegedly using flaming NAPALM attacks on city

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Chilling video of wounded Syrians during alleged NAPALM attack in Darayya

A chilling video of Syria after a napalm attack by President Bashar al-Assad surfaced online. The city of Darayya was literally burning and several people were wounded during the attack.

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By Linky C. (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
8/13/2015 (9 years ago)

Published in Middle East

Keywords: Syrian Civil War, NAPALM attack in Syria

MUNTINLUPA CITY, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - The aftermath of a napalm attack was featured in a newly released video. The attack was allegedly led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's warplanes. The video, filmed in a rebel-held neighborhood in the city of Darayya, showed footage of a number of buildings burning, covered with what appears to be flammable liquid or gel.

Activisits immediately claimed the substance was napalm, a substance that has been banned in civilian areas by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Pro-regime sources claimed that a conventional bomb struck a fuel production facility. However, what actually caused the blaze remains to be unidentified in the video.

The videeo was released and filmed by the Darayya Media Center and the Syrian Civil Defense. These groups are fiercely opposed to the current regime of President Assad. The video insists that Assad's forces used an incendiary device.

The blazing fire was caused by 20 barrels of napalm that was dropped in the rebel-held neighborhood. This is not the first time Assad's forces used napalm against its Syrian citizens.

In a recorded incident two years ago, several children and adults suffered horrific burns after being squeezed in a napalm-like substance that was bomb dropped on a school playground near the Syrian capital. The recent fire, despite the efforts of the firefighters was very difficult to extinguish.

Witnesses explained they saw fighter jets repeatedly flowing overhead, as what seemed like, looking for a target. It took a while before the jets dropped the bomb.

The warplanes are believed sent by the air force, which remains loyal to President Assad. According to reports, this is the President's response to the shelling of rebels in the held areas, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 120 people.

The incident happened hours prior to the arrival of Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Jayad Zarif in the Syrian capital. The minister is expected to conduct a four-point peace plan proposal Iran wants to offer to the United Nations to be able to end the Syrian civil war.

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