

He lost consciousness and woke up four hours later to be told that his twins and wife had died. Abdul Hamid Youssef lost his wife and 9-month-old twins in attack on Syrian village Bashar al-Assad's regime accused of using illegal chemical weapons Images of Youssef cradling his dead babies. He recalls how he ran to his brother’s house to find him and his family dead. The people he saw foaming at the mouth and nose. Abdel Hamid al-Youssef says 25 members of his family, including his wife and infant twins, were killed when poison gas was dropped on their home town in Syria in 2017 (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters). How he told his wife to take the twins to safety outside. 0:46 Syrian man who lost over 20 members of his family in alleged gas attack sobs at their grave site WATCH: In an emotional and gut-wrenching moment, a Syrian man who lost over 20. A BRIT ISIS bride who inspired Shamima Begum is alive and has been moved to a new camp in Syria with her son after a failed escape attempt. How people started running out of their homes and onto the street, trying to help each other. It is a story he has told dozens of times, about how Khan Sheikhoun residents woke up at half-past six in the morning to the sound of explosions. (Edlib Media Center, via AP)įrom his tent in the displaced settlement near the Turkish border called “Mokhayyam al-Karamah,” Arabic for “Dignity Camp,” near the town of Atmeh, al-Yousef recalls that fateful day when he lost his twins, Aya and Ahmed, his wife Dalal and 16 other relatives.


Zhuo Kangluo, who was found dead at the roadside after. This photo provided Tuesday, Apby the Syrian anti-government activist group Edlib Media Center, shows victims of a suspected chemical attack, in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province, Syria. An elderly man has turned up alive nine years after his family believed they had cremated him following a car accident, reports say.
