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The White Helmets Rescue
(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Israel's extraction of members of the White Helmets from southern Syria into Jordan came just in time, after concerns that they would be massacred by the Assad regime. Syrian refugees who had camped near the Israeli border returned to their homes Thursday and Friday after an evacuation agreement between Syria, Russia and rebel militias, so by Saturday there were no refugees at the border. The White Helmets freed people from buildings destroyed by the Syrian army and the Russian air force, and aided the wounded in places where no other aid was available. They reported on the use of chemical weapons and barrel bombs, and posted videos that showed the cruelty of the regime's soldiers and the pro-Iranian militias.