Mosul residents express solidarity with Syrian civilians

Record ID: 559719

  • Title: Mosul residents express solidarity with Syrian civilians
  • Date: 7th April 2017
  • Summary: MOSUL, IRAQ (APRIL 7, 2017) (REUTERS) CHILDREN FILLING BOTTLES WITH WATER IN EAST MOSUL'S ALNABI YOUNIS WATER FILLING UP BOTTLE CHILD STANDING BY BOTTLES VARIOUS OF DESTROYED BUILDING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING DOWN ROAD PEOPLE BEING CHECKED BY IRAQI FORCES (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RESIDENT, FATHY SALIM, SAYING: "I am denouncing it (the chemical attack) completely. What do they (worlds' governments) want, they slaughtered the Syrian people and the Iraqi people. What does (Syrian President) Bashar (al-Assad) have? Why doesn't he step down? He should leave the Syrian people to decide their own future. Why is he firing chemical weapons? Who is he targeting? The children, the women or the widows. The Iraqi and Syrian people have become women without men."
  • Embargoed: 21st April 2017 19:25
  • Keywords: Syria chemical attack Mosul Assad
  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • City: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016BEK4ZR
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: For many people living in the eastern side of the war-torn Iraqi city of Mosul, Tuesday's (April 4) chemical attack near the Syrian city of Idlib served as a reminder of the hardships felt by Syrian civilians living through six years of civil war.
    As eastern Mosul struggles to recover from the U.S.-backed offensive that cleared its side of the city from the Islamic State group in January, some residents drew similarities between their experiences and that of their Syrian neighbours on Friday (April 7).
    Fathy Salim said Iraqi and Syrian civilians have no institutions to defend them.
    In addition to the residents denouncing the chemical attack, some also protested the lack of services such as water and electricity since Iraqi forces retook the eastern half of the city.
    Even though the fighting has passed, east Mosul residents are never too far from the daily violence that engulfs the western side of the city.
    Iraqi troops are trying to dislodge IS from Mosul's Old City, where the jihadists are resisting with car bombs, snipers and mortar fire.
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