The Syrian government has confirmed the high fire in the dream of Sueida and the deployment of its security forces to preserve the cessation of hostilities in this province of the southwest of the country, marked by a week of fighting between Bedouins related to the Damascus authorities against militias of the Drusa minority, that have already left more than 700 dead, including almost 250 civilians.
“With the aim of avoiding the shedding of the blood of the Syrians, preserving the unity of the Syrian territory and the security of its people, and in response to national and humanitarian responsibility, the presidency of the Arab Republic Syria declares a high immediate and complete fire,” said the office of the Syrian President and former jihadist leader Ahmed al Shara.
(To) avoid spilling of the blood of the Syrians, preserve the unity of the Syrian territory and the security of its people, and in response to national and humanitarian responsibility, the Presidency […] declares a high immediate and complete fire
The office of the Syrian President and former jihadist leader Ahmed al Shara.
“The Presidency urges all parties, without exception, to adhere fully to this resolution, immediately cease all combat operations in all areas, guarantee the protection of the civilian population and ensure access without obstacles to humanitarian aid,” he adds, before confirming the deployment of their security forces “to guarantee the application of the high fire, maintain public order and guarantee the protection of citizenship and their property.”
The confirmation of the high fire and the deployment have taken place hours after the US envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, announced that Israel had agreed to put an end To his bombings against the forces of the Syrian authorities, in an operation that the Israeli army defended as a maneuver to protect the Druzos, a community that also resides in Israeli territory.
After contradictory information this last Friday about the presence of Syrian government forces in Sueida, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, Noureddin al Baba, was the first to advance, through a message published his account of the social network X that, “after the bloody events caused by groups out of the law, and under direct orders of the presidency, the internal security forces began to deploy in the government protect civilians and stop chaos. “
“The State, with all its political and security institutions, continues its efforts to restore the safety and stability in Sueda. Security forces will mobilize all their efforts to stop the internal attacks and struggles and restore stability in the province,” he concluded.
More than 700 dead in a week
The last balance of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that 718 people have died during fighting, including 245 civilians, of them 165 “Summary executed” For forces related to the Syrian government, which for now has not spoken about this aspect. Among the dead there are 146 Druzos fighters, 287 troops from the Syrian government and 18 Bedouin combatants, three of them “executed” by the Druss militias.
Local sources have informed the Suwayda24 portal that the intensity of the clashes “It has decreased in the last hours”in particular from the announcement of Barrack, after the sides returned to star in intense fighting throughout Friday afternoon, especially on the outskirts of the west of the city.
The presidency of Syria, in a statement published late yesterday, reiterated its call to order and its request to all communities in the country to integrate into a unified state, an enormously difficult initiative given the plurality of groups that integrate the country, especially in regard to the Kurds of the Northeast and the Drusa community of Sueida, traditionally contrary to Damascus, as demonstrated innumerable protests during last years of the now deposed regime of former Syrian president Bashar al Assad.
“The Syrian Arab Republic demonstrates again and again that it is a state for all its citizens, regardless of its affiliations and components, from the Drusa sect to the Beduine tribes, and not for any sect or group in particular,” he made known.
