My name is A. K. I worked in a media office located on the upper floor of a building which hosted a civil medical point. I witnessed two occasions of the use of chemical weapons. The first one occurred in Harasta in 2013, and the second on August 21, 2013, in Zamalka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first attack:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It was early summer, and I was in the office when suddenly a call came to the medical point requesting ambulance to Harasta. They mentioned the possibility of a shelling containing toxic gases. I accompanied the ambulance teams to the shelling site, while other vehicles headed to a small medical point in the town of Beit Sawa, where some of the injured were delivered. It was after midnight when I arrived at the shelling site. I filmed the injured with my camera forgetting to taking any protective procedure. When I returned to the office, I uploaded the videos to my YouTube channel and shared the link with the media. Shortly after, I started experiencing similar symptoms, feeling suffocated. These symptoms persisted for four days, during which I regularly took medication until I recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The symptoms of the affected individuals included mouth froth, body tremors, and Bulging eyes. The number of injured was estimated to be around a hundred, in addition to seven or eight military deaths because the target was a military point affiliated with the Free Syrian Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second attack was on August 21:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was at home in Misraba with my family when I heard wireless calls to go to Zamalka and assist in rescue efforts. In our neighborhood, there was a civil medical point called “Al-Barq.” I rushed to it and was shocked by the number of injured arriving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I learned from the wireless that the shelling targeting Zamalka was a chemical weapon. I entered the medical point immediately and began to take photos of everything before my camera lens. After filming, I started feeling dizzy and experiencing visual disturbances. I returned to the office but couldn’t upload the videos on the same day due to my injury. I felt like I was going to die, breathing became difficult, and it felt as if there was a stone in my throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next day, I uploaded the videos I had recorded. After a week, I felt well and went to Zamalka and Jobar to filmed the targeted areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is A. K. I worked in a media office located on the upper floor of a building which hosted a civil medical point. I witnessed two occasions of the use of chemical weapons. The first one occurred in Harasta in 2013, and the second on August 21, 2013, in Zamalka. The first attack: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-and-testimonies"],"yoast_head":"\n