Bedouins tell BBC they could return to fighting Druze

The Bedouin fighters, who were placed outside the Southern Syrian city Suweida, told the BBC that they would observe a ceasefire with the Draze community, but they did not refuse to continue hostility.

After a week of deadly sectarian clashes between Bedouin fighters, Duze fighters, Bedouins and government forces, he retreated from the city to the surrounding villages in the province and carried out air strikes to support Israel Drze.

On Sunday, a UK -based monitoring group said it was a “cautious calm” in the region – but then tribal fighters attacked the villages.

Smoke can be seen in the fields rising from the town of Suweida from the town of Suweida, a town of Drze, which was taken over by the Bedouin until last week and is now under the control of the Syrian government.

A dirt mound cut along the road at a nearby checkpoint. Duzin government security personnel were standing next to him, all of the heavy armed and prevented the Bedouin from re -entering the city.

Hundreds of Bedouin fighters, many fire weapons in the air, crowded the road.

They still want the wounded Bedouin people to be released in Suweida. Otherwise, they say they will cross the checkpoint and return to the city.

“We did what the government ordered to us, and we decided to agree, and the government has returned, Suweida is 35 km away from here.” He said.

“Currently, our hostages and the wounded are there, they refuse to give us to anyone … If they do not commit the agreement, Suweida is going to be our cemetery.”

The long -standing tensions between the Duze and Bedouin tribes turned into deadly sectarian conflicts after the abduction of a Draze merchant on the road to the capital Damascus a week ago.

Provisional President Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s government responded to the city using force. DRUze Residents of Suweida He told BBC that they witnessed “barbarian actions” Armed men – government forces and foreign fighters – attacked people. Israel targeted these forces and said they were acting to protect Draze.

Government forces withdrew and Draze and Bedouin fighters later clashed. Both Draze and Bedouin fighters are accused of persecution in the last seven days and members of the security forces and individuals affiliated with the temporary government.

On Saturday, Al-Sharaa declared a ceasefire and sent security forces to Suweida to end the war.

Local Draze fighters are once again under the control of the city. However, the UK -based Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR) said that more than 1,120 people have been killed.

The monitor said the dead contain 427 DRUze fighters and 298 Draze civilians.

Meanwhile, 354 government security personnel and 21 Sunni Bedouin were killed, three of them were executed by Draze Fighters, “he said. In Israeli strikes, 15 more governments were killed.

The UN Migration Agency said on Sunday that at least 128,000 people were displaced by violence. Sohr, Suweida City is a serious shortage of medical supply, he said.

The Syrian Red Crescent reported that a first human convoy reached the city. Israel’s public publisher reported that Israel has sent medical aid to Draze.

In the meantime, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanded that the government should be held responsible for a united and peaceful Syrian possibility, and to bring everyone who is guilty of savagery, including those on their ranks “.

Bedouin refugees gathered in the former school thing in Mia’rbah in southwest of Suweida. Since the years of the civil war, the village was carrying scars, buildings were in ruins and full of bullet holes.

In the aid distribution centers, old Bedouin women gathered water from a tank behind the truck. Most people there were women and children.

When asked if he thought that Bedouin and Draze could live together, a woman displaced from the city of Suweida said that it would be connected to the government in Damascus.

“If the government will take over and manage and the government will provide peace and security, they can live together.”

In the absence of the state official, he said he believed that Bedouin could not trust Draze.

“They can’t live with them without treacherous, peace and security,” he said.

Additional reports by Jack Burgess