New Chlorine Gas Attack on Jobar, Damascus

Activists said that Assad’s air force fired a rocket loaded with chlorine gas on the district of Jobar in Damascus, causing around 20 cases of suffocation among civilians. Medics said that the odor of the chlorine gas can still be smelled in the targeted district.” Jobar neighborhood as Assad forces targeted chlorine gas last night, too, and there are more than 20 injured in just 12 hours. The Syrian Coalition called earlier on the UN Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “to refer Assad’s chemical weapons file to the International Criminal Court (ICC), along with the files we submitted in this regard which providers compelling evidence on the responsibility of the Assad regime for the use of chemical weapons in many locations across Syria. We also demand the inclusion of the chlorine gas in the list of chemical weapons that the Assad regime has to abandon. Assad has exploited the exclusion of the chlorine gas from the list and used it in many attacks on particularly civilian targets across Syria.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)