Sectarian violence erupts again in Syria, leaving at least 160 dead
Beirut – According to the Observer groups, the sectarian war in Southern Syria continued on Tuesday and contributed to a death fee that exceeded 160 people after three -day clashes. Violence triggered more conflict and encouraged Israel to start a wave of air strikes in the Syrian government forces entering the region to restore the order.
Recently, the controversy contributes to the difficulties managed by the rebellious Hizip, a one -time al -Qaeda, which overthrew Syria’s new Syrian President Bashar al -Assad at the end of last year. The government tried to secure that the minority communities in the country had abandoned its challenging past, even if the warriors working under the auspices had dealt with a few sects.
It is likely that the violence of this week, which attracted the local Sunni Bedouin tribes against armed groups for the Drze religious community, is likely to contribute to the fears of minorities. Israel, which has its own Draze community, described him as the defender of Draze in Syria.
Despite efforts to lead to diplomatic openings between the two countries, Israel still considers Syria’s new officials a threat. After the fall of Assad, Israel took the Syrian territory, including an unrelated buffer zone, and launched air strikes to destroy military equipment, which he said he could be used against his territory.
During the clashes between the Syrian government forces and the Draze militias, a Syrian government was injured in Sweida, treated in a clinic in the village of Busra Al-Harir in Southern Syria on Tuesday.
(Omar Colonel / Associated Press)
In the early hours of Tuesday, Draze religious leaders urged the local armed groups to surrender to the authorities when the authorities entered Sweida. Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Abu Qasra, the government, announced the ceasefire that the city said that it was mediating with “important and honor”.
However, a few hours later, the clashes began again because Sheikh Hijmat al-Hijri, a leading drouper leader who has long resisted the new government for a long time, published a statement that accused of continuing the “disagreement of unarmed civilians”. He called on local fighters to challenge the state security forces.
Syrian Ministry of Interior said on Monday, more than 30 people were killed and 100 people were injured, he said. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory, a war monitor, said on Tuesday that 166 people have been killed since the explosion of the war on Sunday.
The videos published in social media and local news organizations described the armed because of the shooting in the abandoned streets in the city center of Sweida; Various showcases in the main market of the city seem to have been burned or destroyed. Another video describes Sweida’s control and describing the armed men in the air because they claim to have seized control.
The accusations of sect violations against civilians initiated government forces operating in the minority -dominated regions. In March, pro -government factions undertakes that the right groups called Pogroms in Syria’s coastal region tortured, kidnapped and killed about 1,500 people from the Alawite community.
Defense Minister Qasra warned security personnel that any violation and vandalism will face “harsh legal measures .. However, the observatory, based on an activist network in the country, accused state fighters of joining field executions that killed 21 people in Sweida, including three women. Later, a video, which is said to have taken these executions in place, shows blood lines on the ground around their bodies, men in civilian clothes lying on the ground.
Other videos revealed that the state armed men caught the armed men, the droust fighters and the bodies of the murdered and the drunk men they encountered around Sweida.
The clashes in Sweida started on Sunday after a wave of kidnapping and robbery between the Bedouin and Draze in the south of Syria. However, they reflect a longer complaint: Draze fractions refused to deliver the regions they say that they have not represented many ethnic groups of Syria so far.
The Syrian government security forces are gathered on Monday at the foot of the Sweida province, where clashes exploded between Draze militias in Southern Syria and Sunni Bedouin clans. –
(Malek Khattab / Associated Press)
The activists said that while the clashes entered the afternoon, Israeli fighter planes carried out various air strikes in the city, including a police station and a tank.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Israel said on Tuesday that “Israel has decided to damage Draze in Syria because of its deep brotherly alliance with our DRUze citizens in Israel and Draze in Syria,” he said.
“We act to prevent the Syrian regime from damaging DRUZE and to ensure demilitarization of the adjacent area adjacent to our Syrian border,” he added.
