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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Khalil Ashawi and Tom Perry

Syria gas attack victims, awaiting justice, say impunity fuels war crimes

Abdel Hamid al-Youssef, an internally displaced man who says his wife and infant twins were killed when poison gas was dropped on their home town of Khan Sheikhoun in 2017, sits with his children at his home in the rebel-held town of Sarmada in Idlib province, Syria April 1, 2022. Picture taken April 1, 2022. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Abdel Hamid al-Youssef said 25 members of his family, including his wife and infant twins, were killed when poison gas was dropped on their town in Syria in 2017, in an attack a U.N.-backed inquiry concluded was launched by the Syrian state.

    "In seconds, everything was erased. Life was completely erased," Youssef, 33, said of the sarin attack that struck the town of Khan Sheikhoun, one of scores of times chemical weapons have reportedly been used in the country's 11-year-old war.

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