‘Tense calm’ returns to Syria’s Sweida province after week of deadly violence | Syria

After a week of violence, which was estimated to have killed more than 1000 people by fighters, he returned to Sweida, southern Syria on Sunday after withdrawing.

Local people, news agencies, Syria’s Islamist leadership of the government of the Bedouin warriors of the city of Draze, the city was quiet, he said.

London -based Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR), Sweida’nın “Early Calm Calm since the early hours of the Sunday morning”, but the basic medical equipment, including the shortage of “humanitarian situation” warned.

Sohr said on Sunday that more than 1000 people have been killed in armed clashes, bombing, unjustified executions and Israeli air strikes since the violence in Sweida began a week ago. The United Nations Migration Agency said that the number of people displaced by violence increased over 128,000.

Dentist Kenan Azzam, a local resident, told Reuters that the situation was “tense calm ve on Sunday morning, but people were still struggling with a lack of water and electricity. “Hospitals are a disaster and out of service, and there are still too many dead and injured,” he said.

Agent France-Presse reporters Sweida City on the outskirts reporters, human convoys are preparing to enter the town of Drze-Majority, adding that there was no fighting sound.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent Humanitarian Relief Organization announced that the war has sent 32 trucks to Sweida full of food, medicine, water, fuel and other aids after leaving the war with power outages and famine. The Syrian Arab News Agency, operated by the state, said that the Ministry of Health sent a truck convoy.

Violence was triggered by a Bedouin tribe and Drze’s wider minority in Syria and encouraging government forces to intervene. Draze fighters resisted their entrance to the state and violence increased and turned into terror for days for the local people. On the other hand, Israel, who promised to protect the Draze community, launched air strikes on the Damascus Ministry of Defense in Damascus and dozens of military targets in the south of the country.

The US ceasefire agreement was announced by the United States on Saturday to prevent Israel’s military intervention further.

Early on Sunday, the US accelerated calls to end the war. Tom Barrack said, “All factions should leave their arms immediately, stop their hostility and leave the tribal revenge cycles,” Syria’s special ambassador Tom Barrack said, “Syria stands at a critical point – peace and dialogue must be dominant and now judge.”

A few hours ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a warning to Syria’s new government, accused of processing abuse, including executions when they entered Sweida by DRUze factions at the beginning of the week.

He wrote about Rubio X: “If the authorities in Damascus want to protect a united, inclusive and peaceful Syria from ISIS, [Islamic State] And they should help the termination of this disaster by using the security forces to prevent Iran’s control from entering and massacring the ISIS and other violent jihadists. And they should hold responsible and bring everyone who is guilty of savagery, including what is on their ranks, to justice. “

According to the private social media seen by Guardian’s reporter in Beirut, he made sectarian hate speech against two members of the government forces Drze.

One of them, as he said, “We are on the way to help,” while making a machete on the camera, published the video of the other two soldiers passing Sweida. In a house in Sweida, Draze broke a picture of his spiritual leaders from a wall from a wall and chewed with his boots.

Last week, the worst epidemic of violence since March, when 1,500 Alawite citizens, the disabled dictator Bashar al -Assad’s supporters from the sect, have been massacred to revenge on a failed attack.

The second round of sectarian violence, after the sudden fall of the Assad regime, the new Syrian government came to power last December. The Western governments abolished sanctions by the Assad regime, which killed more than half a million people and left 90% of the population in poverty, to help Syria’s battered economy and economic restructuring.

The EU said on Saturday that the latest violence, including a few armed groups against unarmed civilians, was terrified by hundreds of victims ”. In a statement that the EU Foreign Affairs said, “All parties to stop all violence actions immediately, to protect all civilians without discrimination and to take urgent steps to prevent incentives and sectarian discourse”.

The EU also called for “Israel and all other foreign actors to fully respect Syria’s sovereignty and regional integrity”.

Syrian temporary president Ahmed Al-Sharaa announced the ceasefire in Sweida on Saturday and renewed the promise of protecting Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities.

Sharaa, who was more sympathetic to the Bedouins, tried to address the Draze community while criticizing the militias. The authority then called on the Bedouins to leave the city and said that the state cannot change the role of the country in addressing the country and they cannot recover security ”.

The Ministry of Interior said that the city of Sweida was “evacuated from all tribal fighters and the conflicts in the city’s neighborhoods were stopped”.

Syria’s Tribal and Clan Council spokesman, Al Jazeera’ya late hours on Saturday, the warriors “in response to the call of the presidency and the conditions of the agreement” said the city left.