Syrian power withdraws its Soueida forces after bloody fights

The majority of Syrian City Druze of Soueida has its dead on Thursday after the withdrawal of government troops. Therefore, decided by interim president Ahmad al-Chareh to avoid an “open war” with Israel.

But the Syrian presidency accused the Druze fighters of Soueida on Thursday of raping the ceasefire. Therefore, She also warned of “flagrant Israeli interference continues in the internal affairs of Syria. Consequently, which leads to more chaos and destruction and further complicates the regional situation”.

Israel threatened on Wednesday to intensify its syrian power withdraws its soueida strikes on Wednesday if the Syrian forces did not leave this province in southern Syria. Furthermore, where the fighting left nearly 600 dead according to an NGO. Meanwhile, Thursday evening, the official Sana agency reported an Israeli raid near Soueida, the first since the Syrian withdrawal. However,

The inhabitants of Soueida have discovered a victimized city. In addition, An AFP correspondent counted 15 corpses lying in the center. Similarly, “It is as if Soueida came out of a natural disaster. a flood,” Hanadi Obeid, a 39 -year -old doctor told AFP.

In front of the main hospital, families are looking for their loved ones in a climate of anger and fear.

The power of Chareh shaken

According to the UN Humanitarian Affairs Bureau (OCHA). “nearly 2,000 families syrian power withdraws its soueida have been moved” due to violence across the province, which broke out on Sunday between Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druzes fighters.

The Syrian power. saying that he wanted to restore order, deployed his forces on Tuesday in Soueida, hitherto controlled by Druzes fighters. The OSDH, Druzes witnesses and groups, however, accused Syrian forces of having fought alongside the tribes and having committed abuses.

This climbing further shares the power of Chareh. who overthrew, at the head of a coalition of Islamist rebel groups President Bashar al-Assad in December, in a country bruised by almost 14 years of civil war.

Members of government forces told AFP that they had been ordered to withdraw from the province of Soueida shortly before midnight on Wednesday. that they had completed their withdrawal at dawn.

Avoid an “open war” with Israel

In a televised speech at night, Mr. Chareh announced the transfer “to local groups” and the Druzes religious dignitaries of responsibility for maintaining security in Soueida. “We have given priority to the interest of Syrians rather than chaos. destruction,” he said, saying that he wanted to avoid “an open war” with Israel whose intervention he condemned.

Wednesday, Israel bombed several targets in the heart of Damascus including the army HQ, killed three according to the authorities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the ceasefire had been obtained “by force”.

Mr. Chareh stressed that “the effective intervention of American, Arab and Turkish mediation, saved the region from an unknown spell”. The United States. allies of Israel and which displayed its support for the syrian power withdraws its soueida new Syrian leader despite its jihadist past, announced on Wednesday an agreement to restore calm in Syria.

The State Department. Tammy Bruce, had at the same time called the Syrian power to withdraw from the conflict zone in order to appease tensions with Israel. Washington “did not support recent Israeli strikes,” said Tammy Bruce on Thursday. The White House has highlighted the role of the United States in de-escalation, which “seems to continue”.

594 dead

According to the OSDH. violence left 594 dead: 300 Druzes de Soueida, including 154 civilians including 83 “executed briefly by members (of the underlying forces) of the Ministries of Defense and the Interior”.

The fighting also cost the life of 257 members of the government. 18 Sunni Bedouin fighters, in addition to three syrian power withdraws its soueida tribes members “carried out summarily by Druzes fighters”, according to this source.

According to Mr. Chareh. the authors of abuses against “our Druze people, who are under the protection and responsibility of the State”, “will report”. He had made the same promise after the massacre of hundreds of members of the Alawite community, from which Mr. Assad came, in early March on the Syrian coast. But a commission of inquiry into these massacres has never rendered its conclusions.

Present mainly in Soueida, the Druze community in Syria had some 700,000 people before the civil war. This esoteric minority from a branch of Islam is also located in Lebanon and Israel.

AFP

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