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Friday 31 May 2019
Syrian boy survives bombing that killed his mother, siblings

By SARAH EL DEEB Amid the frenzy, a younger
Associated Press boy emerged from a gap
BEIRUT (AP) — A 13-year-old in the rubble with swollen
boy emerged with a blood- red eyes, dusty hair and
ied arm and swollen red body, his shirt barely hang-
eyes from under the rubble ing onto his torso. It was Ab-
to the cries of rescue work- boudi’s younger brother,
ers. He didn’t yet know that Hakam, just a few meters
his mother and two siblings (yards) from his brother’s
were dead — killed by smashed body. Rescu-
bombs that opposition ac- ers cheered and walked
tivists said were dropped Hakam Qasheet out of the
by Syrian government area. His mother and an-
warplanes on a residential other sibling, a girl, were
building Thursday in the last also killed under the rubble.
rebel stronghold in Syria. Activist-operated Baladi
The bombings pancaked News agency reported five
the building in Maaret al- people were killed in the
Numan, a town in southern strike.
Idlib province, and killed at The rebel stronghold is
least five, including three home to some 3 million
members of the Qasheet people. Bombs and shells
family. This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated rained on the crowded en-
Fighting has raged in Idlib based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Civil Defense workers searching for victims clave, sending tens of thou-
and surrounding areas under the rubble of a destroyed building after an airstrike by Syrian government forces, Maaret sands of civilians fleeing to
since April 30, when Syr- al-Numan, a town in south Idlib, Syria, Thursday, May 30, 2019. safer areas in the north.
ian troops supported by Associated Press The U.N. has warned its hu-
UN extends arms embargo,
airstrikes entered the over- under attack. UNICEF such brutal and gratuitous old boy. His father, stand- manitarian operations in
crowded enclave. The warned that the escalating violence,” UNICEF said. ing behind the camera, the region are at risk.
sanctions against South Sudan
area stands in Syrian Presi- violence is putting the lives Video shot by the Syrian wept, repeating his son’s UNICEF said its partners in
dent Bashar Assad’s way of tens of thousands of chil- Civil Defense showed vol- name, Abboudi, as rescu- Idlib had to suspend their
as he seeks a final victory dren in danger. unteers working to pull ers mulled how to lift the operations while 43,000
against armed govern- The agency said that chil- bodies and survivors from heavy structure. A large children have had to leave
ment opposition after eight dren who bear “no respon- under the collapsed build- bulldozer stood nearby. school. Final exams for
years of civil war. sibility” for the war suffer ing in Maaret al-Numan. In a bright blue shirt, Ab- the academic year were
The U.N. children’s agency more than anyone. The The volunteers from the boudi was face down, postponed in many parts
said more than 130 children emergency relief efforts group known as the White squeezed between two of the rebel-held enclave,
have reportedly been killed are “quick fixes that can go Helmets pulled away ce- large cement blocks and affecting the education
over the last month and only so far in mitigating the ment blocks to reach the there was a pool of blood of 400,000 students living
nearly 30 hospitals came humanitarian fallout from lifeless body of a 14-year- under his nose. there, it said.q

UN extends arms embargo, sanctions against South Sudan

By EDITH M. LEDERER stressing that “if there is to Although progress toward
Associated Press be any chance for lasting peace has been slow, he
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The peace in South Sudan we said there is a reduction
U.N. Security Council ap- must stop the flow of weap- in “political violence” and
proved a resolution Thurs- ons used to fuel conflict efforts are under way to
day extending an arms em- and terrorize civilians.” implement the September
bargo and other sanctions He said the Trump adminis- agreement.
against South Sudan over tration wants to support Af- Equatorial Guinea’s U.N.
objections from African na- rican bodies taking leading Ambassador Anatolio
tions, Russia and China that roles in resolving disputes Ndong Mba added that
the measure won’t help and conflicts on the con- sanctions “are not the
promote peace. tinent but “support for this right ingredient to moti-
The U.S.-sponsored resolu- expanded role is difficult vate those involved to fur-
tion received 10 “yes” votes to envision if countries in ther their efforts to achieve
— one more than the mini- South Sudan President Salva Kiir arrives for the swearing-in the region are unwilling to peace.”
mum required for adop- ceremony of Cyril Ramaphosa at Loftus Versfeld stadium in support measures that in- Russia’s deputy U.N. am-
tion — and five abstentions Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday May 25, 2019. centivize warring parties to bassador Dmitry Polyan-
from South Africa, Ivory Associated Press choose peace over war.” sky told the council: “We
Coast, Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan had faced a Machar’s opposition re- South Africa’s U.N. Ambas- do not share the view that
Russia and China. May 12 deadline for oppo- quested a six-month exten- sador Jerry Matjila told the this progress in the South
A fragile peace deal to sition leader Riek Machar sion, which regional minis- council that the regional Sudanese settlement was
end a five-year civil war to return to the country and ters approved earlier this group IGAD, which has helped by the strengthen-
that killed nearly 400,000 once again become Presi- month. been leading peace efforts ing last July of sanctions
people was signed in Sep- dent Salva Kiir’s deputy. It Acting U.S. Ambassa- in South Sudan along with pressure and the introduc-
tember. But the committee is the crucial next step in dor Jonathan Cohen ex- the African Union, “contin- tion of an arms embargo.”
overseeing its implementa- implementing the peace pressed disappointment at ues to assert that sanctions He credited regional me-
tion says key elements have deal, but both South Su- the lack of African support are not useful to the politi- diators for the peace deal
yet to be put in place. dan’s government and for renewing the sanctions, cal process.” and progress so far. q