Notices by Leila Al-Shami (leilashami@spore.social)

Today is the first Eid in over half a century without the Assad regime.
The first Eid in 14 years without bombs and killing.
The first Eid in 18 years that I am spending with my family in Damascus and can visit the graves of my relatives.

Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating.

Protesters have been taking to the streets in cities across Syria to condemn the Israeli aggression and affirm Syrian resistance.
These photos are from Sweida yesterday.

A video has surfaced showing Shadi Al-Waisi, Syria’s Interim Minister of Justice, overseeing the execution of a woman on charges of adultery from the time he was a judge in Jabhat Al-Nusra.

He must be dismissed. Syria deserves better than these criminals.

Article details the extent of Assad's terror and surveillance state. The totalitarian regime ruled through fear. These are the structures that need to be completely dismantled in the coming period.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/18200f80-8b2a-43cc-bc8c-2e9edad8c8ae?shareToken=0febfe1c585c55f87cdf567cfaa2f46b

The Kurdish struggle is central to Syria's future
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/kurdish-struggle-central-syrias-future

After storming the prisons and freeing the detainees, the SNHR estimates that over 112,414 individuals are still forcibly disappeared at the hands of the Assad regime.

Where are they? What happened to them? Syrians want to know and demand justice.

https://snhr.org/blog/2024/12/28/opening-detention-centers-has-revealed-the-still-going-humanitarian-catastrophe-over-112414-individuals-are-still-forcibly-disappeared-at-the-hands-of-the-assad-regime/

"A free Syria will require more than removing a dictator—it will demand the collective patience and will to rebuild something new."
https://the.ink/p/free-syria?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The women at today's protest for the detainees in Damascus express the pain and anguish of countless Syrian families.

We want justice for the detainees, to know their fate and for the criminals that imprisoned, tortured and killed them to be held accountable.

Inside Madaya, the Syrian town starved to death by Assad and Hezbollah
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/inside-madaya-syrian-town-assad-starved-death

Merry Christmas from free Syria.

Report documenting arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture, practiced by Turkish backed Syrian National Army against civilians in northern Syria
https://hevdesti.org/en/missing-justice-arbitrary-detention-and-enforced-disappearance-continue-in-sna-controlled-areas/

"We currently have nearly 400 civilians inside the hospital, including babies in the neonatal unit, whose lives depend on oxygen and incubators. We cannot evacuate these patients safely without assistance ..." said Abu Safiya at Kamal Adwan hospital Gaza
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/kamal-adwan-hospital-chief-it-next-impossible-get-patients-out-safely?nid=415313&topic=Gaza%2520Under%2520Attack&fid=541064

"The global left exists in a state of profound cognitive dissonance, clinging to a fundamentally flawed logic that loudly proclaims our struggles are intersectional while simultaneously denying Syrians the justice they are seeking and deserve."
https://www.hurriya.net/post/you-cannot-raise-a-fist-for-palestine-while-crushing-syrians-under-your-boots

The Birth of a New Syria
The Walls Have Stopped Listening
https://aljumhuriya.net/en/2024/12/19/the-birth-of-a-new-syria/

Voices from today's demo in Damascus calling for a civil, democratic, secular state.
Via: Megaphone

Syrian mothers desperately searching for any trace of their loved ones in Assad's detention centers.

Now with the discovery of mass graves, and small numbers liberated from prisons, it appears that most of the 130,000+ detainees were murdered.

How can a country hold so much pain?

Israeli forces advance in Syria’s Daraa sparking panic among residents
https://npasyria.com/en/119831/

Mass graves are being discovered across Syria. One in Qutayfah, outside Damascus is estimated to hold 150,000 people. It is hard to comprehend the extent of Assad's slaughter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevV8cuxpJY

An already desperate humanitarian situation in north-eastern Syria is threatened to worsen following end of ceasefire between US-backed SDF & Turkish-backed SNA and collapse of negotiations
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/11/northeast-syria-displacement-worsens-aid-crisis

Syria's deaf community celebrating the fall of the regime