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Activists: More than 200 deaths in violence in southern Syria
Violence in Syria escalates: more than 200 people, including many drouses, have been killed. Activists report arbitrary executions. Israel intervenes.
According to activists, there are already more than 200 deaths in the escalating conflict between different ethnic groups and government forces in Syria. At least 203 people have been killed since Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday evening. There are 92 members of the religious minority of the Drusen, including 21 arbitrarily executed civilians, as well as 18 Bedouins and 93 members of the state security apparatus.
The observation center based in Great Britain draws your information from a network of activists on site. Your information can often not be checked independently.
In the southern province of Suwaida, fighting broke out between the religious minority of the Drusen and Sunni Bedouins on Sunday. The Islamist government in Damascus then sent soldiers to the province of Suwaida on Monday. On Tuesday morning, the government troops moved to the provincial capital of the same name, including fighters dressed in civilian. Shortly afterwards, violence escalated.
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The observation center accuses the government troops “executions” of civilians. A resident of Suwaida also spoke of executions as well as burned houses and shops on a phone call to the AFP news agency. The editor -in -chief of the local news website “Suwayda 24”, Rayan Maaruf, assumed “dozens of” killed civilians.
There have been conflicts between Sunni Bedouins and the minority of the Drusen in Suweida for a long time that repeatedly result in violence. According to the observational site, members of the Sunni Bedouin tribes had fought on the side of the Syrian security forces in previous disputes.
The neighboring country of Israel, which occurs as a protective power of the Druze, has also been involved in the current conflict. On Tuesday, the Israeli army attacked military vehicles from Syrian government troops in the city of Suwaida.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Israel Katz stated in a joint statement that this should protect the druses from attacks by the “Syrian regime”. It is also about “ensuring demilitarization of the area on our border with Syria”.
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Source: Stern
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