(8 Dec 2024)
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Tripoli, Lebanon – 08 December 2024
1. People holding Syrian revolutionary flag chanting UPSOUND (Arabic): “A curse on your soul Hafez (Assad)"
2. Lebanese and Syrian revolution flags
3. Wide of celebration
4. People chanting UPSOUND (Arabic): ”Freedom forever despite you Assad”
5. Various of people celebrating
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mustafa Mawlawi, displaced Syrian:
“Thank God for making us victorious, thanks to the people of Tripoli who were supporting the Syrian revolution since the beginning. A curse on your soul Hafez (Assad). We are done with injustice, we are done with the security departments. Thank God for the freedom of the detainees.”
7. Various of people holding flags celebrating
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Lebanese and displaced Syrians gathered at Al-Nour Square in Tripoli in northern Lebanon on Sunday to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad’s government with chants, prayers and fireworks.
They held Syrian Revolution flags and chanted slogans against the ousted Syrian president and his father Hafez.
The jubilant scenes came after Syrian opposition fighters entered Damascus following a lightning advance through the country.
Lebanon is the country with the largest number of displaced Syrians, estimated at 1.5 million, who fled violence and civil war.
Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syrian opposition war monitor, said Assad took a flight from Damascus and left early Sunday.
There was no immediate official statement from the Syrian government and Assad’s whereabouts remain unknown.
It was the first time opposition forces had reached Damascus since 2018 when Syrian troops recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital following a yearslong siege.
The rapidly developing events have shaken the region.
Lebanon said it was closing all its land border crossings with Syria except for one that links Beirut with Damascus.
Jordan closed a border crossing with Syria, too.
AP Video shot by Yahya Habchiti
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