- Title: Displaced Syrians welcome U.S. strikes on Syrian airbase
- Date: 7th April 2017
- Summary: AL NOOR CAMP, ALEPPO, SYRIA (APRIL 7, 2017) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) VARIOUS TENTS IN CAMP FOR DISPLACED SYRIANS DISPLACED PEOPLE WALKING IN CAMP DISPLACED MAN DISTRIBUTING BREAD DISPLACED MAN HOLDING NOTE BOARD IN HUT WHERE FOOD IS DISTRIBUTED (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED SYRIAN MAN, MOHAMAD ALI, SAYING: "The strikes were great. We want them to strike him (Syrian President Bashar al-Assad) even more. We've been hoping for these strikes for a long time. He hit us with chemical weapons, he shelled men and children. Finally they have decided to take aim at him. They must completely oust him." VARIOUS OF DISPLACED SYRIANS IN CAMP (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED SYRIAN MAN, MOHAMAD ISAA, SAYING: "These strikes should have happened a long time ago because he has become a tyrant. There has been so much killing and the last events (Khan Sheikhoun attack) are ones the mind cannot comprehend. This (US strike) should have happened a long time ago, but thank God for everything. God willing, the situation will get better. But we want a faster response because he has become a total tyrant." VARIOUS OF DISPLACED SHOVELLING SAND INTO CART (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED SYRIAN MAN, KHALID AHMAD, SAYING: "We have been refugees for four or five years, living like dogs. We want them to shell him. We want to get rid of him so that people can return to their homes, their families and land. This is great. God willing, they will strike him even more." VARIOUS OF TENTS IN CAMP (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED SYRIAN MAN, SAMER ZAITON, SAYING: "The American air strike is very good. It's great for the Syrian people. There's a possibility for us to return to our homes after these air strikes because they give some safety to go back. We hope they intensify the strikes." DISPLACED PEOPLE IN CAMP VARIOUS VIEW OF CAMP
- Embargoed: 21st April 2017 12:11
- Keywords: Syria displaced US strikes Bashar al-Assad Khan Sheikhoun chemical weapons sarin gas US President Donald Trump
- Location: AL NOOR CAMP, ALEPPO, SYRIA
- City: AL NOOR CAMP, ALEPPO, SYRIA
- Country: Syria
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA0016BEI1XJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Syrian refugees living in a camp near the Turkish border on Friday (April 7) welcomed a move by the United States to strike a Syrian airbase.
"We have been refugees for four or five years, living like dogs. We want them to shell him. We want to get rid of him so that people can return to their homes, their families and land," said displaced Syrian Khalid Ahmad.
The United States fired cruise missiles early on Friday, targeting a Syrian airbase from which President Donald Trump said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched. It was the first direct U.S. assault on the government of Bashar al-Assad in six years of civil war.
At least 70 people, many of them children, were killed in Tuesday's (April 4) attack on Khan Sheikhoun by what US government sources said was sarin gas -- the deadliest chemical attack in Syria since the same nerve agent killed hundreds of people in a rebel-held area near Damascus in 2013. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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