The calls for an independent investigation into the attacks that took place in July in Sweida came after footage was published on Sunday showing government forces executing a volunteer health worker inside a hospital.
On 13 July, clashes that began between Druze and Bedouin tribes backed by the interim government in Damascus escalated into a massacre when troops sent by the Damascus administration intervened.
Around 1,400 people, most of them Druze civilians, were killed. The actual toll is believed to be higher.
Witnesses, Druze groups, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) accused interim government forces of supporting the Bedouins and committing serious violations, including executions targeting Druze.
Security camera footage published by local media outlet Suwayda 24 shows a group of healthcare workers kneeling on the floor inside Sweida’s main hospital on 16 July. A brief exchange occurs between a volunteer medic and an armed man wearing military fatigues and a Ministry of Interior uniform. Moments later, the medic is shot, and his lifeless body is dragged away, leaving a trail of blood.
SOHR described the footage as “a shocking execution carried out by forces affiliated with the Ministries of Defense and Interior” and called for the establishment of an independent, impartial international commission of inquiry.
Fadel Abdul Ghany, head of the Syrian Network for Human Rights, also urged the UN-affiliated international commission to investigate violations committed by all parties in Sweida, saying that the inquiry committee set up last month by the Damascus government was “not credible.”
Source: ANF News
