{"id":358660,"date":"2018-04-27T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/douma-witnesses-speak-at-opcw-briefing-at-the-hague\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:45:11","slug":"douma-witnesses-speak-at-opcw-briefing-at-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/douma-witnesses-speak-at-opcw-briefing-at-the-hague\/","title":{"rendered":"Douma Witnesses Speak at OPCW Briefing at the Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>No Attack, No Victims, No Chem Weapons: Douma Witnesses Speak at OPCW Briefing at the Hague<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses of the <a href=\"red-ice-tv\/staged-chemical-attack-in-syria-provoking-irreversible-conflict\" target=\"_blank\">alleged chemical attack<\/a> in Douma, including 11-year-old Hassan Diab and hospital staff, told reporters at The Hague that the White Helmets video used as a pretext for a US-led strike on Syria was, in fact, staged.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/425240-opcw-russia-syria-douma-witnesses\/video\/5ae2e593dda4c8484c8b45e1\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were at the basement and we heard people shouting that we needed to go to a hospital. We went through a tunnel. At the hospital they started pouring cold water on me,\u201d the boy told the press conference, gathered by Russia\u2019s mission at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/425240-opcw-russia-syria-douma-witnesses\/video\/5ae2e5cedda4c88c438b4625\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hassan was among the \u201cvictims\u201d seen being washed by water hoses in a video released by the controversial White Helmets group on April 7. The boy and his family later spoke to the media and revealed that Hassan was hurried to the scene by men who claimed that a chemical attack had taken place. They started pouring cold water on the boy and others, filming the frightened children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were people unknown to us who were filming the emergency care, they were filming the chaos taking place inside, and were filming people being doused with water. The instruments they used to douse them with water were originally used to clean the floors actually,\u201d\u00a0Ahmad Kashoi, an administrator of the emergency ward, recalled.\u00a0\u201cThat happened for about an hour, we provided help to them and sent them home. No one has died. No one suffered from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/no-attack-no-victims-no-chem-weapons-douma-witnesses-speak-at-opcw-briefing-at-the-hague\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Attack, No Victims, No Chem Weapons: Douma Witnesses Speak at OPCW Briefing at the Hague Witnesses of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, including 11-year-old Hassan Diab and hospital staff, told reporters at The Hague that the White Helmets video used as a pretext for a US-led strike on Syria was, in fact, staged. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}