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The death toll from the battle in the southern Syrian governorate of al-Suwayda has exceeded 1,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on July 23.
The battle broke out in the southern governorate on July 13 with limited clashes between Druze fighters and Sunni bedouins. Syria’s Islamist-led government sided with the Bedouins and attacked the governorate on July 14. Nevertheless, Israel backed the Druze, whom it promised to protect after the fall of the Assad regime last year, and used its airpower to force government forces to withdraw by July 16.
The battle reignited on July 17 after the withdrawal of the government with Syrian tribes announcing a general mobilization to fight the Druze.
The United States announced a ceasefire after talks with Israel and Syria on July 18, but the attack went on and tribal forces managed to storm the city of al-Suwayda. The forces were pushed out by the Druze by late July 19, with no support from Israel. Since then, sporadic clashes have been ongoing in the northern countryside of al-Suwayda.
The SOHR, which is based in London, said that the battle has so far claimed the lives of 1,339 people, including 196 Druze civilians who were executed by government forces.
The real death toll is expected to be much higher. Government and tribal forces were blamed for a wide range of war crimes against the Druze, from setting buildings on fire, to looting, abductions and summary executions. Videos of these crimes continue to surface online.
Currently, both sides are working on evacuating remaining bedouins from al-Suwayda in exchange for the release of an unknown number of Druze abductees.
The battle is not over yet, as many issues remain unsolved. The government claims that it has the right to deploy its security forces in al-Suwayda under the U.S.-brokered agreement. However, the Druze demand the complete withdrawal of all government and tribal forces from the entirety of the governorate.
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the chosen-ite cult believes it needs these druze ands to attack iran . so they use the genocide card to set up empire
au contraire silly sausage there’s never been a jewish empire. what school did you attend, the hitlerite jnr high for drop outs? there’s been persian greek roman british chinese german austrian french chinese japanese mongolian, prussian etc but no jewish empire. nice try though from you and the gang.
au contraire, you are the one who needs to back to school. as in jewish empires include the historical kingdoms of israel and judah, the hasmonean and herodian dynasties, the kharza khaganate in ukraine.
“israel backed the druze, whom it promised to protect”
symbolic rhetoric is not protection. zionist, turkic leadership could care less about “the druze”.
thank you isreali and western asshole terrorists.
jihadi’s gonna jihadi, israeli’s the same. it’ll all be over soon (isaiah 17:1 “damascus a ruinous heap,” starts it all off).
brian berletic said something to the effect of, many sunnis believe shias, iran, yemen are really pro israel and these sunnis countries are the real resistance to the zios.
but it was harder to con them after they saw iranian missiles smash israel. so now the sunnis are staging this as, look we’re anti-israel, we’re fighting those pro zionest druze.
this spin on events would be comical if the carnage weren’t so gruesome.
it’s all just contrived to expand the globalists new world order. it’s very obvious.
one cannot fail to be struck by the extreme, crude, blatant brutality and barbarism of late stage monopoly capitalism. all pretence of civilised standards has been cast aside. brutal, reckless wars of aggression on absurd pretexts, promoted relentlessly by a lying corporate media, normalising genocide and war crimes and atrocities of a brazenly nazi character committed on a nazi scale. draconian repression of all dissent, shredding of civil liberties and blanket surveillance.
this is just the latest stage of a descent into the abyss. imperialist economies based on primitive, rapacious grab-the-oil type exploitation, weaponisation of capitalist monopoly restrictions with sanctions, tariffs, looting and theft of state and privately held assets. suppression of all opposition based on state terror with austerity at home. fascism at home and abroad. the drive to war with russia/ china/ iran is well advanced and can no longer be avoided.
yes its a land grab. real estate, the only real estate. not money land and the waters it collects and the foods it grows.
absolutely but here’s the tip the world’s run by organised crime. its not a nice thing.
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traitorous russia will be dismembered and bombed with atomic bombs.
lol, and assad was supposed to be the bad guy.
great job julani your terrorist savages have wrecked syria.