UNIFIL convoy enters rural Sweida

ANHS's correspondent confirmed that a column of UNIFIL vehicles entered rural Sweida via the Izraʿ–Busra al-Harir–Sweida road. The convoy toured several villages and sites accompanied by local Druze military forces before reaching the village of al-Dur, the first settlement in northern rural Sweida. 

The entry comes a day after a humanitarian aid convoy crossed at the same point, only hours ahead of the Paris meetings that brought together officials from the Syrian transitional government, Israel, the United States, and France.

In parallel, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights indicated that engineering groups from Druze factions entered the al-Suwaymara area in rural Sweida following the withdrawal of transitional government forces from the Ministries of Defense and Interior. During their presence, four bodies of Druze civilians were discovered in the village.

According to the Observatory, the total death toll since the morning of Sunday, July 13, resulting from clashes, summary executions, and Israeli bombardments, has reached 1,779. Among them are 554 individuals, the overwhelming majority Druze civilians, including 51 women and 15 children and elderly people.

The toll also includes 20 members of the medical staff of Sweida National Hospital, who were executed on the spot by personnel from the Defense and Interior Ministries.

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