The Syrian government and Israel were granted on Friday night in a high heat under the auspices of the United States, but the clashes are still opposed to tribal combatants and Druzes at the entrance of Souida, in southern Syria, where violence has already left hundreds of deaths and heels of thousands of people displaced for almost a week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the temporary president Sirio Ahmad al-Chareh “accepted the fire,” said the US emissary for Syria Tom Barrack, two days after Israeli bombings on Damascus.
“We call the Druzes, the Bedouins and the Sunitas to leave their arms and, together, with the other minorities, to build a new and united Syrian identity, in peace and prosperity with their neighbors,” Mr. Barrack wrote in the social network X.
The Syrian presidency said Friday that he worked on Friday to send a “special force” in the region with the majority of Soueida, from where he had retired to his soldiers the previous day under the pressure of Israel.
Since Sunday, clashes between Druzes and local groups of Beduinas tribes, for tense relations for years, have killed at least 638 by the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH).
The Government Hospital of Soueida, the only one in the city that still works, has welcomed “more than 400 bodies since Monday morning”, including “women, children and the elderly,” said the doctor Omar Obeid to the AFP.
“A common well”
“It is no longer a hospital, it is a common well,” he told an AFP correspondent, a hospital staff member who does not want to give his AFP last name.
This violence weakens even more the power of Ahmad al-Chareh, who, at the head of a coalition of Islamist rebel groups, had overthrown President Bashar al-Assad in December, in a country bruised by almost 14 years of civil war.
In a statement on Friday night, the presidency urged “all parties to show restriction and favor of reason”, while claiming to work “to send a special force to end the clashes.”
The Syrian power, which said that he wanted to restore order, had already deployed his forces on Tuesday in Soueida, until now controlled by the Drusos fighters. The OSDH, the witnesses and groups of Druzes, accused the Syrian forces of having fought with the Bedouins and having committed abuse.
The governmental forces had retired from the city on Thursday, after the threats and bombings of Israel, who said he wanted to protect the druff minority, Mr. Chareh affirming his desire to avoid an “open war” with Israel.
The fire between the Syrian parties was completed, but the presidency accused the Druzos fighters on Thursday of having violated it. On Friday morning, the combatants of the Sunni Arab tribes, who came in mass of different Syrian regions to lend a hand to the Bedouin, had massaged around Souid, according to the correspondents of the AFP in the place.
And on Friday night, AFP that exchanged automatic firefire automatically seen about 200 combatants at the western entrance of the city with the groups of druses placed inside.
“More baby milk”
The OSDH confirmed the fight in this sector, adding that “bombings aimed at the city’s districts.” A tribal boss, Anas Al-Enad, told the AFP correspondent near the Druso town of Walgha, who came with his men in the Hama region (center) “in response to calls to the help of the Bedouins.”
The AFP correspondent saw houses, stores and burned cars in Walgha, now under the control of tribal forces and Bedouins. According to the OSDH, “tribal combatants are encouraged and supported by Syrian authorities that can no longer be deployed in Soueida due to Israel’s threats.”
Almost 80,000 people have been transferred due to violence, the International Organization for Migration (IIM). In private water and electricity and where communications are cut, “the situation is catastrophic. There is no longer milk for babies,” said local site editor Suwayda 24, said Rayan Maarouf.
The International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) said it was “deeply concerned about the rapid deterioration of the humanitarian situation” in the region.
“People lack everything. Hospitals find it increasingly difficult to treat wounded and patients,” said Stephan Sakalian, head of the CICR delegation in Syria. Present mainly in Soueida, the Druse community in Syria had about 700,000 people before the civil war. This esoteric minority of a branch of Islam is also found in Lebanon and Israel.
Source: BFM TV
