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William Christou

William Christou is a Beirut -based journalist focusing on human rights investigations and migration problems. He wrote the following article about the conflict in Southern Syria.

Bahaa*, after coming from the gates of the Sweida National Hospital in Syria, there was no choice but to continue to work as a patient. Almost all of them were similar injuries: weapon wounds and bodies shredded by shrapnel from nearby exploding artillery.

“There were hundreds of wounded, there were less than 200 bodies in the hospital. Many were shot in the head as if they were executed,” he said.

The videos taken in the hospital showed rooms stacked with corpses covered corridors, body bags and bodies stacked outside. A second doctor from the intensive care unit said that the bodies should be placed outside the morgue due to lack of space.

According to the figures given by the UK-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR), both civilian, civilian and military and military were at least 516 civilians and warriors killed in four-day clashes in Drze-Majority.

Sohr said that at least 86 of those killed were DRUZE civilians’ field executions by state fighters or allied militias, and three Bedouin civilians killed by Duze warriors.

The fight initiated by a local dispute between Bedouin tribes and Duze fighters climbed rapidly and encouraged the Syrian government forces to intervene. Draze fighters resisted their entrance to the state, and the clashes began with the Syrian government forces.

You can read more than William Christou’s part here: ‘Four -day violence in the head, as if it was executed, hundreds of died in southern Syria

Reuters said the Syrian security forces are preparing to re-talk to Drze-Majority Sweida to fight by Draze and Bedouin tribes.

On Wednesday, a ceasefire, Bedouin and Draze fighters clashed in the province of Sweida briefly ended bloody fights and pushed the Syrian government to send unity – more violence.

Conflicts came in Israel, Sweida, the Syrian -led government -led government, said that Sweida would not allow the Sweida to hit the Syrian troops in the Ministry of Defense and close to the Presidential Palace. Sam.

After the ceasefire was declared, Syrian troops withdrew from Sweida, but the Tribal Bedouin fighters and Drze, a part of a religious minority who have followers in Lebanon and Israel, appeared again on Thursday.

Israel’s army made new strikes in Sweida. But, According to Agency France-Presse (AFP) reports, Israel reported that on Friday, the Syrian State News Agency was causing more air strikes close to Sweida city at the end of the previous day.

“(Israeli army) is not aware of the strikes on a night in Syria,” a spokesman told AFP.

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Syrian Interior Department spokesman said on Friday, the Syrian security forces were preparing to re-talk to the city of Draze-Majority Sweida to fight by Draze and Bedouin tribes.

The Syrian Presidency comes after the government accused the “law illegal forces ğı that the government uses to refer to the drouped factions in Sweida. To violate a renovated ceasefire announced late on Wednesday. The Presidency said that the forces had “terrible violence ına against civilians, including crimes that are completely contrary to the obligations of mediation, who directly threaten civil peace and pushed them towards chaos and security collapse.

The Syrian troops withdrew from Sweida on Thursday, according to a war monitor, after the deadly clashes that killed approximately 600 people, on the orders of the Islamist government.

Israel warned the Syrian government to withdraw from the south and said it would not allow Islamist rulers to accumulate over their borders.

The Israeli army carried out an air strike at the foot of the Sweida city as conflicts between tribal fighters and Bedouin fighters. The clashes launched a wave of violence in the early hours of the days after the withdrawal of the Syrian government forces from Sweida.

. United States He said that he did not support the last Israeli strikes in Syria on Thursday and that the Syrian leader clarified his discontent Ahmed Al-Sharaa He accused Israel of trying to break his country and promised to protect his minority.

In other developments:

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regretted after killing three people after killing three people in a Catholic church in Gaza on Thursday, and after a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, he regretted a “stray” tour for deaths. Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarchate, Parish Reverend Gabriel Romanelli, including the region, the only Catholic worship house of the region in the city of Gaza, the Holy Family Church of the Church of 10 people were injured, he said.

• A fire passed a newly opened shopping center in Kuth, Eastern Iraq, and desperate families killed at least 61 people while looking for missing relatives. Authorities, many people drowned in the bathroom, one person’s five relatives died in the elevator, he said. Blaze-security arrangements were frequently neglected, the last of a country, which erupted late on Wednesday, and starts from the first floor before swallowing the five-storey Corniche Hypermarket shopping center.

• Axios reported that Qatar, Egypt and the United States offered Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas with a Gaza cease -fire offer on Wednesday. Axios reported that the two main updates in the latest proposal had to do with the ratio of the Israeli army withdrawn from Gaza during the ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners for each Israeli hostage.

• The best European diplomats said Tehran is determined to re -enable UN sanctions if they do not make progress in a nuclear agreement. Diplomats from the UK, France, Germany and the European Union, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’ye “all international sanctions against Iran to allow the restructuring of the” Snapback “mechanism” Tennran’s nuclear program, “there is no concrete progress until the end of summer,” he said.

• As Israel said that two Hezbollah members targeted, according to the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Health was killed on Thursday in separate Israeli strikes to Southern Lebanon. Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Iran -backed Hezbollah, attacks are the latest attacks.

• MBDA, the largest missile producer in Europe, sells key components for bombs sent to thousands of Israel. And it has been used in more than one air strikes in which research showed that Palestinian children and other civilians were killed. A Guardian investigation with independent news rooms explains and follows the money, examined the supply chain behind the GBU-39 bomb and how it was deployed during the conflict.

• Slovenia said on Thursday that two extreme right -wing Israeli ministers will prohibit the authorities from entering what they say is a first in the EU. National Security Minister Itamar said that GVİR and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will be declared “Persona Grat”.

• Israel refused to renew visas for the presidents of at least three UN agents in Gaza, where the UN Humanitarian Chief accused Palestinian civilians in the region where the war has shredded. Visas for local leaders of the Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office known as OCHA; Human Rights Agency Ohchr; UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric confirmed that the agency supporting Palestinians in Gaza has not been renewed in recent months.