#Qaraqosh

[dougielombax]

Just leaving this here.

Feel free to reblog.

The Assyrians need all the help they can get.

Unfortunately many people’s and groups such as misguided Kurdish nationalists, Islamists, Turks and others keep trying to erase their history.

Or even try to destroy the poor buggers outright, as Isis has been trying to do.

To make it look as if they’ve never existed or died out centuries ago.

Which of course they have not.

They are still here.

[maribelad]

Aviso

[disease]

"QARAQOSH, IRAQ" LORENZO MELONI // 2016 [archival pigment print | 37 4/5 × 47 1/5"]

[divinum-pacis]

June 2023: A Syriac language Bible on display at the Syriac Museum in Qaraqosh. [Waleed Al-Khalid/AFP]

[zestingbloodorange]

Baghdad is in "Israel" now according to "omar" and 788.5k people.

This is the Liberation Square ساحة التحرير and this tree is in front of the Freedom Monument ن��ب الحرية.

the tahrir square is the heart of movements and protests and demonstrations in Iraq.

christmas celebrations were canceled in Iraq by the churches in soldiraty with Palestine and the tragedy of the wedding fire in Qaraqosh and the last time it was canceled it was in soldiraty with the tishreen movement in 2019.

This is a photo from 2019 Christmas in the same spot.

and this is a better picture of the tree from the tiktok.

The post on their Instagram

Al jazeera the same Al jazeera he took the picture from.

This is malicious misinformation.

[kittenorgans]

Anniversary for the Qaraqosh wedding fire in Iraq just passed, I still think about them all the time. Need to go to church soon.

[blogynews]

"This Iraq Wedding's Innocent Celebration Turned Shockingly Chaotic When the Bride and Groom Took to the Dance Floor"

A tragic fire at a wedding in Iraq has claimed the lives of 107 people, while leaving at least 150 guests with burns, smoke inhalation, or crush injuries. The incident occurred near the village of Qaraqosh, also known as Al-Hamdaniya. As the nation mourns this devastating loss, a video from the wedding venue has surfaced, revealing the horrific moments leading up to the tragedy. In the video, the…

[blogynewz]

"This Iraq Wedding's Innocent Celebration Turned Shockingly Chaotic When the Bride and Groom Took to the Dance Floor"

A tragic fire at a wedding in Iraq has claimed the lives of 107 people, while leaving at least 150 guests with burns, smoke inhalation, or crush injuries. The incident occurred near the village of Qaraqosh, also known as Al-Hamdaniya. As the nation mourns this devastating loss, a video from the wedding venue has surfaced, revealing the horrific moments leading up to the tragedy. In the video, the…

[blogynewsz]

"This Iraq Wedding's Innocent Celebration Turned Shockingly Chaotic When the Bride and Groom Took to the Dance Floor"

A tragic fire at a wedding in Iraq has claimed the lives of 107 people, while leaving at least 150 guests with burns, smoke inhalation, or crush injuries. The incident occurred near the village of Qaraqosh, also known as Al-Hamdaniya. As the nation mourns this devastating loss, a video from the wedding venue has surfaced, revealing the horrific moments leading up to the tragedy. In the video, the…

[dougielombax]

Fucking hell.

Posting this with links for those who want to help in response.

https://assyrianaid.org

Reblog this to spread awareness if you can’t donate. (That’s what I’m doing)

Please.

[maribelad]

Cáliz de Qaraqosh

[crimechannels]

By • Olalekan Fagbade Tragedy ; 100 persons reportedly killed as fire engulfs wedding hall At least 100 people were killed when a fire ripped through a crowded Iraqi wedding hall, officials said Wednesday, pointing to indoor fireworks as the likely cause for the blaze that sparked a panicked stampede for the exits. More than 150 people were injured by the flames, the choking smoke or in the crush to flee the reception hall, which was reduced to charred debris and piles of twisted furniture under a partially collapsed ceiling. “I thought there had been an explosion,” said Martin Idriss, 19, who was working in the kitchen when the fire broke out Tuesday evening in the venue in the mainly Christian northern town of Qaraqosh. “The flames were devouring the whole hall,” he said. “When I went back in, I saw the charred bodies of three children,” he said, adding that the venue’s emergency exits had proved “inadequate” for the hundreds of guests trying to escape. Early reports and unverified video footage online suggested that flares shot up sparkling flames that ignited ceiling decorations before the fire engulfed highly flammable construction materials. Health authorities “counted 100 dead and more than 150 injured in the fire at a marriage hall in Hamdaniyah”, as the town is also known, Iraq’s official INA news agency reported in what it called a “preliminary tally”. The casualty toll was confirmed to AFP by health ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr, who said most of the injured were being treated for burns, oxygen deprivation and crush injuries sustained in the struggle to escape. The Iraqi Red Crescent reported more than 450 casualties, without providing a breakdown of deaths and injuries. ‘We were suffocating’ Wedding guest Rania Waad, 17, who sustained burns to her hand, said that as the bride and groom “were slow dancing, the fireworks (flames) started to climb to the ceiling (and) the whole hall went up in flames”. “We couldn’t see anything,” she said, choking back sobs. “We were suffocating, we didn’t know how to get out.” At the town’s main hospital, an AFP photographer saw ambulances with sirens blaring and dozens of people gathering to donate blood, while black body bags were being loaded onto a refrigerated truck. Early on Wednesday, police and firefighters were still sifting through the charred remains of the reception hall where mangled metal chairs lay strewn amid the debris. Civil defence authorities said the hall had been fitted with prefabricated panels that were “highly flammable and contravened safety standards”. The danger was compounded by the “release of toxic gases linked to the combustion of the panels”, which contained plastic, they said in a statement. “Preliminary information” suggested indoor fireworks had ignited the blaze, they said. Nine of the venue’s staff were arrested and four arrest warrants issued for its owners, interior ministry spokesman General Saad Maan told AFP Three days of mourning Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani declared three days of national mourning. He also ordered “intensified periodic inspections” of entertainment venues nationwide to “ensure that safety measures are followed” and to “identify any non-compliant buildings”. Safety standards in Iraq’s construction sector are often disregarded, and the country, whose infrastructure is in disrepair after decades of conflict, is often the scene of fatal fires and accidents. In July 2021, a fire in hospital Covid unit killed more than 60 people in southern Iraq. In April of the same year, oxygen tanks exploded and triggered a fire at a Baghdad hospital also treating Covid patients, killing more than 80 people. Qaraqosh, like many Christian towns in the Nineveh Plains northeast of Mosul, was ransacked by jihadists of the Islamic State group after they entered the town in 2014. The town and its churches were slowly rebuilt after the group’s ouster in 2017, and Pope Francis visited the town in March 2021.

AFP #100personskilledasfireengulfsweddinghall

[zestingbloodorange]

eating eid klecha that was given to my family by my neighbors and thinking and praying for Palestine,sudan,congo,syria,yemen,lebanon and for all indigenous people and for all minorities and for the people that we lost in the Qaraqosh wedding tragedy and for everyone that suffered and we lost under daesh and everyone that's going through a hard time. I don't really celebrate anything in life religious or not for personal reasons and my complicated relationship with religion so this is the most of what I do, eat klecha and drink chai and it's a huge privilege to be able to eat and drink and to sit and be able to write this. may palestinians celebrite christmas next year in a free palestine.