By Brandon Turbeville

Only a short time after the terrorist support group known as the White Helmets, thoroughly exposed and discredited by the alternative media, were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, the true nature of the organization is on display yet again. This time, the water crisis in Damascus represents the fake humanitarian organization’s time to shine.

Shortly after the liberation of Aleppo, al-Qaeda fighters in the Barada Valley outside Damascus dumped diesel fuel into the water supply to the city on December 22. Obviously, this made the water supply impossible to consume and, on December 23, the Syrian military launched a campaign to retake the area and to restore the city’s water supply.

According to the Moon of Alabama website, photos were even posted online showing the water treatment plant rigged with explosives but those photos were, according to MOA, removed from the Internet.

Despite hostilities, the Syrian government is ready to send teams to restore water to Damascus, the lack of which only punishes civilians and holds a vast number of people hostage under the possibility of thirst. Terrorists, however, are denying access to the site and, instead, are offering to allow teams access the facilities on the condition that the Syrian military and Hezbollah end their military siege of the city. In effect, the terrorists are holding the people of Damascus hostage for military gain.

That terrorists would hold civilians hostage is not surprising. However, the White Helmets, who typically attempt to stay behind the scenes (although they have been exposed for doing much more than mere behind-the-scenes activity), have openly released a statement of solidarity with al-Qaeda in Barada and Damascus. Tweets released by “civil groups” and “activists” demanding an end to Syrian military operations around Damascus in exchange for drinking water to civilians bears a number of signatures from organizations, one of them being the White Helmets.

The Statement Included In “Activist” Tweets

A blown up version of the document

The White Helmets logo

As Moon Of Alabama wrote,

The organizations who make an offer to lift the water blockade of Damascus obviously think they have the power to do so. They then must also be held responsible for keeping the blockade up. They must also have intimate relations with the al-Qaeda fighters who currently occupy the damaged water facilities.

The U.S. and UK government created and paid White Helmets are “impartially”, “neutrally” and “for all Syrians” blocking the water supply to 5 million Syrians in Damascus. U.S. military and CIA officers run the “operations rooms” in Jordan and Turkey that direct the insurgency.

This increases suspicion that the blockade is part of an organized response by the enemies of Syria to the recent liberation of east-Aleppo. As noted yesterday:

This shut down is part of a wider, seemingly coordinated strategy to deprive all government held areas of utility supplies. Two days ago the Islamic State shut down a major water intake for Aleppo from the Euphrates. High voltage electricity masts of lines feeding Damascus have been destroyed and repair teams, unlike before, denied access. Gas supplies to parts of Damascus are also cut.

Even after 14 days of water crisis in Damascus the “western” media are not reporting about the al-Qaeda blockade of water for 5 million Syrians. We can be sure that not a word will be written by them about this illegal hostages taking of millions of civilians in Damascus by their favorite propaganda organization White Helmets.

The White Helmets are nothing more than a terrorist support group, a fact known to many within the alternative media for quite some time. However, this recent stunt should remove all doubt as to where the fake humanitarian organization’s loyalties lie. If there was any doubt before, I suggest reading my previous articles on the group as well as Vanessa Beeley’s excellent work on the same topic.

Suggested articles:

• The Real Syria Civil Defense VS The White Helmets – Brandon Turbeville
• MSM Attempts To Promote White Helmets While Hiding Syria Civil Defense – More ‘Fake News’ From Corporate Press – Brandon Turbeville
• White Helmets NGO: A “Rescue And Assist” Operation Under Guise Of Human Rights– Brandon Turbeville
• White Helmets Video And Supporters’ Demonstrations Confirm Lack Of Credibility – Brandon Turbeville
• The REAL Syria Civil Defense Exposes Fake “White Helmets” As Terrorist-Linked Imposters – Vanessa Beeley
• The White Helmets “Black Record:” Vanessa Beeley Talks To RT About French Gov’t Collusion With Al-Qaeda-Linked Group – Vanessa Beeley
• Who Are Syria’s White Helmets? – Vanessa Beeley

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Nearly 200 militants from several villages on the southwestern outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, have turned themselves in and joined the ranks of the Syrian army.

The militants from the villages of Beit Saber, Beit Tima, Saasaa al-Gharbiyeh, Hassno and Kafar Hour handed over their weapons to the authorities and pledged not to get involved in any act that might harm the homeland’s security, said Mou’men Jarida, chairman of the Local Reconciliation Committee in the countryside of Damascus and Dara’a.

Jarida noted that the local reconciliation process will soon be implemented in the southern and western parts of Quneitra Province and in the south of Dara’a province.

The move comes as part of the Syrian government’s policy of boosting Syrian-Syrian dialogue to resolve the crisis in the country. Nearly 1,200 militants are expected to turn in their weapons throughout the process.

According to the Ministry of Justice, the legal status of 4,746 former militants was settled in 2016 within the framework of the reconciliation plan which seeks to restore the activities of state institutions in the countryside of Damascus.

In recent weeks, hundreds of militants have laid down arms in different areas in order to fall under an amnesty law issued last year by President Bashar al-Assad, which pardons those ceasing to partake in the armed conflict.

The latest development comes in the wake of a countrywide ceasefire in Syria, which came into effect on December 30, 2016, on the back of negotiations between Russia and Turkey.

During the talks, Russia was representing the Syrian government, while Turkey, which has been supporting the militants in favor of ousting Assad, was negotiating on their behalf. The ceasefire was later ratified in a UN Security Council resolution.

Russia, Turkey had clinched a similar deal in December that brought about a ceasefire in the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo.

Aleppo was liberated from militant control earlier in the month in a blow to the open-handed support the militants have been receiving from foreign states.

The Syrian government and opposition groups are set to attend a round of peace talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana, mediated by Russia, Iran and Turkey. No exact date has been set for the start of the diplomatic process.

(Press TV)