Violence in Syria: more than a thousand dead and 128,000 displaced

Violence in the Bastion Druze

More than a thousand dead and 128,000 displaced in Syria

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More than 128,000 people were moved by A week of violence Community in the Bastion Druze in southern Syria, the International Organization for Migration (OIM) said on Sunday.

“To date, a total of 128,571 people have been moved since the start of hostilities,” said an IOM report, adding that the trips of the province of Soueida “strongly increased on July 19, with more than 43,000 people displaced in a single day”.

Violence in southern Syria made more than 1000 dead in a week, according to a new assessment provided by the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH).

“Compared summary”

According to the OSDH, this assessment, established since last Sunday, includes 336 Druzes fighters and 298 Druzes civilians, including 194 “executed summarily by members of the Ministries of Defense and the Interior”.

Also among the dead 342 members of the government security forces and 21 Bedouins, including three civilians “summarized by Druzes fighters”, according to the same source. In addition, fifteen members of government forces were killed during Israeli strikes, said the OSDH.

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