Syria’s Armed Bedouins Announce Withdrawal From Druze-Majority City After Clashes

Mazraa, Syria (AP) – Syria’s armed Bedouin clans Announced that they were withdrawn from the city of Drze-Majority on Sunday Sweida When the humanitarian aid convoys began to enter the battered southern city, after weekly conflicts and a US ceasefire.

Conflicts Duze killed hundreds of people between religious minority militias and Sunni Muslim clans and threatened to solve Syria’s post -fragile post -war transition. Israel has been initiated In Drze-Majority Sweida province, dozens of air strikes aims at the government forces, which are effectively with the Bedouin.

The clashes also led to a series of targeted sectarian attacks against the Draze community, and then carried out revenge attacks against Bedouin.

A series of kidnapping for taste led to conflicts in various towns and villages in the province, then spreading to the city of Sweida, the state capital of Sweida. The government forces were re -deployed to stop the renewed wars that exploded on Thursday before withdrawing again.

The temporary president Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was perceived more sympathetic to the Bedouins, tried to address the Draze community while criticizing the militias. He then called on the Bedouins to leave the city and said that the state could not change the role of the country in handling the country and they could not recover security ”.

“We thank the Bedouins for their heroic stance, but they demand the cease -fire and the state’s orders,” he said at an address published on Saturday, “he said.

Along with other clans from all over the country, dozens of armed Bedouin fighters remained at the foot of the city and the government was cordoned by the security forces and military police. They blame the conflicts on the Fractions of Sadık Drze to the spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, and accuse them of their Bedouin families.

“We will not leave until we surrender with those who try to confuse the Sedition. And then we will go home.” Khaled al-Mohammad, who came to the Southern province with other tribes from the East Deir al-Zour state, told the Associated Press.

The withdrawal of Bedouins brought a cautious calm to the region, on the way to human convoys. Syrian Red Hilal said on Sunday that he had sent 32 trucks full of food, medicine, water, fuel and other aids after leaving the war with power outages and scarcity.

Syria’s state news agency accused you that the convoy entered Sweida on Sunday, but al-Hijri and armed Draze supporters of rejecting a government delegation accompanying another convoy.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the accompanying convoy of the delegation is two ambulances full of aid provided by local and international organizations.

Al-Hijri did not respond directly to the charges, but in his statement he said that he had welcomed any assistance for Sweida and claimed that he claimed to have campaigns against him.

“We confirm that we have no agreement with anyone on a religious or ethnic basis,” he said. “Shame and embarrassment, everyone who wants to bread in the minds of young people and bread.”

The UN International Migration Organization said that 128,571 people were displaced during clashes, including 43,000 only on Saturday.

Washington’s special ambassador Tom Barrack, Syria, said that conflicts and atrocities have “left a shadow” about the country’s post -war transition and the abolition of the international community.

“All groups should immediately leave their arms, stop their hostility and abandon their revenge cycles, Bar Barrack said,“ Syria stands at a critical point – peace and dialogue reign and now apply. ”

Among those killed in a weekly fight, dozens of civilians were killed in a series of target attacks in the city in the hands of Bedouin fighters and government forces. The videos appeared on the online of warriors who shave the mustaches of the old Draze, who destroyed the portraits of DRUze religious officials and the important ones in homes and are seen as insulting culture and tradition. The militias, including, attacked the Bedouin-Circuit areas at the foot of the province and forced their families to escape to the neighboring Daraa province.

More than half of approximately 1 million Draze worldwide lives in Syria. Most of the other Duze live in Lebanon and Israel, including Golan Heights, who were arrested from Syria during the 1967 Middle East War and annexed in 1981.

Syria’s Draze has largely celebrated the collapse of the Assad family, which ended from cruel administration for decades. Although Al-Sharaa had concerns about the actual Islamist administration, he wanted to approach many diplomatic issues. Al-Hijri and its supporters have adopted a more conflict with Al-Sharaa, unlike other influential Duze figures. Critics also note that Al-Hijri’s previous commitment to Assad.

However, recent conflicts and sectarian attacks on the minority community, increasing number of droutes in the region, Damascus’s new leadership and peaceful together became more suspicious of living together.