More violence erupts in Syria’s Druze heartland as tribal groups reinforce local Bedouin | Syria
The armed tribes supported by the Syrian -led government -led government, one day after the army withdrawn under the Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure, clashed with the Drze fighters in Sweida Heartland on Friday.
According to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR), the UN requested a “independent özgü investigation of at least 638 life that has been at least 638 life since Sunday since Sunday.
The renewed struggle asked questions about the authority of the Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, who had difficult relations with the Kurdish and Alevi minorities.
It was Sharaa, who ordered the withdrawal of the US and others to the government forces, saying that the mediation of the US and others helped to prevent a “large -scale rise”.
An AFP correspondent, on Friday, Bedouin tribal groups and Sweida at the entrance of Draze warriors renewed violence exploded, he said.
AFP correspondent, about 200 tribal fighters, using machine guns and shells clashed with armed droust men from the city, Sohr “Sweida in the neighborhoods of the city of fighting and bombing,” he said.
An AFP correspondent, Sweida National Hospital corridors, cool storage units stacked and disrupted objects stacked in a bad smell spread.
A small number of doctors and nurses in the hospital worked to treat the wounded from the ongoing conflicts in the corridors.
Omar Obeid, a doctor in the state hospital, told AFP that the facility has received more than 400 corpses since Monday morning ..
Obeid, the head of the Sweida branch of Physicians Order, added, “There is no place in the morgue, the bodies are on the street,” he added.
The UN’s International Organization for Migration on Friday said, 79 79,339 people have been displaced since July 13, including 20.019 on 17 July. ”
The tribal groups from all over Syria gathered in the villages around Sweida on Friday, and last weekend, the long -lasting hostility towards the Drze people turned into violence.
Anas Al-Enad, a tribal chief from the central city of Hama, said that he and his men traveling to the village of Walgha in the north-west of Sweida, because we called our Bedouin aid and came to support them ”.
A AFP correspondent has now seen houses and shops burning in the village under the control of the Bedouin people and allies.
SOKEK -based Sohr said, “The deployment of tribal fighters to the province of Sweida was facilitated by the government forces, because the government forces cannot deploy Sweida within the scope of the security agreement with Israel”.
At the beginning of this week, Israel, who bombed the Syrian army in Sweida and Damascus to print the government to reproduce the government, said that he sent aid to the Draze community in Sweida on Friday.
The Ministry said that the 2M Shekel (about 440,000 £) contains food parcels and medical materials.
US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack said that Sharaa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the USA and supported by Ankara in the early hours of Saturdays, said that he accepted by Ankara. The agreement was not confirmed by Syria or Israel.
On Thursday, a ceasefire had to come into force between the fighting parties on the ground, but Sharaa’s office accused the Drze warriors of violating.
Sweida was intensively damaged in a fight, and mostly the inhabitants of Draze were deprived of water and electricity, and the communication lines were cut.
Maarouf, the editor -in -chief of Suway 24, said that the human situation was “disaster .. “We can’t find milk for children,” he said to AFP.
Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said, “The protection of all people should be the greatest priority,” he wanted to end the bloodshed.
“Independent, fast and transparent investigations about all violations” requested.
The International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) said that “health facilities are overwhelmed, medical materials are reduced and power cuts prevent the protection of human residues in the overflowing morgues”.
Stephan Sakalian, President of ICRC’s Delegation in Syria, said, “The human situation in Sweida is critical. People come out of everything,” he said.
“Hospitals are more and more injured and struggling to treat the patient, and families do not feel dignified of their loved ones.”
Sohr said that the last violence exploded on Sunday after the kidnapping of a droute vegetable trader triggered by the local Bedouin for taste.
The government -led government was sent to the army, promised to stop the war, but witnesses and Sohr said that the troops were with the Bedouin and that he had made many abuse against Drze civilians and fighters.
The Provisional Government has long been forced to relate to Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities since its long -rising Bashar Assad in December.
The fight of this week pointed out the most serious outbreak of violence because the government forces struggled with Drauze fighters in and around Sweida in April and May, and more than 100 people died.
