Syrian government declares ‘comprehensive’ ceasefire in Sweida | Syria

The Syrian Presidency declared a “emergency and comprehensive” ceasefire in Sweida and said that the internal security forces were deployed in the Southern province after almost a week of war in the Draze region, which killed more than 700 people.

The armed tribes clashed with Draze fighters on Friday the day after the army was bombarded and withdrawn under the Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure.

In a statement on Saturday, the Syrian Presidency warned that the ceasefire violations would be il a clear violation for sovereignty, and urged all parties to commit cease -fire and hostility in almost all areas.

Noureddine Al-Baba, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said in a statement on the telegram to deploy in Syria’s internal security forces Sweida to “protect civilians and put an end to chaos”.

In a statement on Saturday by one of the three religious leaders of the Syrian Draze community, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, in question The ceasefire will guarantee the opening of humanitarian corridors for safe exit and separation of surrounded civilians for tribal members.

Hours ago, the US ambassador, Israel and Syria, took part in a biased way to the droust fractions and participated in the conflict, including bombing a government building in Damascus, said they accepted a ceasefire.

According to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory, the UN also requested an termination of “bloodshed ve and demanded an independent investigation of violence that killed at least 718 people from both sides since Sunday.

On Friday, Sohr reported that the humanitarian situation in Sweida was “significantly worsening” due to shortage of acute food and medical equipment. Due to the conflict, all hospitals were out of service and the looting was common in the city.

A surgeon from Sweida National Hospital on the phone said, “The situation in the hospital is disaster.

The renewed struggle asked questions about the authority of the Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa, who accidentally faced the country’s minorities after the massacre of 1,500 Alawite civilians on the Syrian coast on the Syrian coast in March.

He ordered the withdrawal of the government forces from Sweida, saying that the mediation of the US and others helps to prevent a “large -scale climb” with Israel.

A number of sources told Reuters how Sharaa would react to the use of troops in the south of the country at the beginning of this week, and that the US special ambassador Thomas Barrack should be governed by Syria as the center of Syria.

When Israel targeted Syrian troops and Damascus on Wednesday, he bombed the Syrian government by bombing the headquarters of the Syrian Ministry of Defense and hit the Presidential Palace.

The people of Duze are seen as a loyal minority in Israel, and usually served in the army, and Israeli military spokesman said that the strikes were a message to Syria president about the events in Sweida.

However, the Syrian government, Syrian political and military officials, believed that Israel had a green light from both the US and Israel, despite months of warnings, according to Reuters sources, including two diplomats and regional security sources.

Violence exploded last Sunday after a DRUze vegetable merchant was kidnapped by the local Bedouin.

The government sent it 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 Draze civilians and fighters. The organization reported that 19 civilians were killed in a “terrible massacre” when the Syrian Defense Ministry forces and general security forces entered the town of Sahwat al-Balatah.

After the Israeli bombardment, a ceasefire was negotiated on Wednesday, and drunk groups and clergy allowed the forces of government to protect the security of Sweida as the forces were removed.

In his speech on Thursday, Syrian President Duze groups will be left to manage the security business in the Southern state, which he described as a choice to avoid war.

Sharaa said: ık We tried to avoid dragging the country from a new, wider war that could take off the destructive way of getting rid of the devastating war… We chose the interests of Syrians on chaos and destruction. ”

However, the Syrian State Media Duze Grups reported that it started revenge attacks on Bedouin villages, while the clashes continued on Thursday. The Bedouin tribes fought against the Duze fighters at the beginning of the week with government forces.

On Friday, approximately 200 tribal fighters, an Agency France-Presse correspondent, Sweida’dan armed droust men clashed using machine guns and shells.

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.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk requested “independent, fast and transparent investigations about all violations”.

In the International Red Cross Committee “Health facilities are overwhelmed, medical materials are diminishing and prevents the protection of human residues in the morgues that overflow power cuts”.

Stephan Sakalian, President of ICRC’s Delegation in Syria, said, “The human situation in Sweida is critical. People come out of everything,” he said.

According to Bassam Alahmad, the General Director of the Non -Non -Civil Society Organization and the General Director of Justice, the former president Bashar al -Assad fled to Syria’s minority groups as a representative of the tribute in the temporary government.

“This is a transition period. We must have a dialogue and they [the minorities] Alahmad said that they are a real part of the state, ”said Alahmad. Instead, the attack on Sweida said that the new authorities would use military force to control every part of Syria”.

“Bashar Assad tried this way” and failed, he added.

However, government supporters are afraid that the withdrawal decision may indicate that it is acceptable to demand their own autonomous regions, which they say that they will disintegrate and weaken the country to other minorities.

If Damascus Sweida has a security check for Drze, “Of course everyone will demand the same thing,” said Abdel Hakim, an old official in the Turkish-backed regional government before Assad’s fall.

“This is what we’re afraid of,” Associated Press said to the Associated Press.