Published : 30-07-2021
CSOs, activists, and civilians have called on the international community to stop the military escalation on Deraa and lift the blockade slapped on the area since June 24, 2021.
In a joint statement, a number of CSOs denounced the military checkpoints pitched around the area and arbitrary manhunts launched across residential neighborhoods.
They added that nearly 50,000 civilians in Deraa have been grappling with a tension-stricken security situation amid fears of mass-genocides and retaliation.
The CSOs called for international action in order to pressurize the Syrian regime and their allied Russian forces to lift the blockade and refrain from using force against innocent civilians.
Mortar shells reportedly slammed into residential neighborhoods in Deraa at the same time as a number of civilians were fatally gunned down by snipers. Clashes and injuries were also reported.
Deraa’s sole medical site has gone inoperative after the Syrian regime’s Fourth Division attacked it. Ambulances kept circulating in the area.
Over 50,000 civilians sheltered in Deraa, including hundreds of Palestinian refugees, remain under the threat of a mass genocide by the Syrian regime forces and their war partners.
On June 25, the regime forces asked the residents and former opposition forces to lay down all light weapons and allow them to search their homes. However, the Daraa Central Committee, the main reconciliation center in the area, noted that they were only supposed to hand in heavy weapons as part of the Russian-brokered agreement signed in July 2018. The regime then started imposing a blockade on some 40,000 civilians living in the area.
All entrances and exits from the district were blocked, and the transportation of all medical and food assistance, as well as fuel, prohibited.
Daraa-based activists told Anadolu Agency (AA) that another reason for the regime to impose the blockade was because the region’s people had opposed setting up ballot boxes for the regime’s so-called elections.
CSOs, activists, and civilians have called on the international community to stop the military escalation on Deraa and lift the blockade slapped on the area since June 24, 2021.
In a joint statement, a number of CSOs denounced the military checkpoints pitched around the area and arbitrary manhunts launched across residential neighborhoods.
They added that nearly 50,000 civilians in Deraa have been grappling with a tension-stricken security situation amid fears of mass-genocides and retaliation.
The CSOs called for international action in order to pressurize the Syrian regime and their allied Russian forces to lift the blockade and refrain from using force against innocent civilians.
Mortar shells reportedly slammed into residential neighborhoods in Deraa at the same time as a number of civilians were fatally gunned down by snipers. Clashes and injuries were also reported.
Deraa’s sole medical site has gone inoperative after the Syrian regime’s Fourth Division attacked it. Ambulances kept circulating in the area.
Over 50,000 civilians sheltered in Deraa, including hundreds of Palestinian refugees, remain under the threat of a mass genocide by the Syrian regime forces and their war partners.
On June 25, the regime forces asked the residents and former opposition forces to lay down all light weapons and allow them to search their homes. However, the Daraa Central Committee, the main reconciliation center in the area, noted that they were only supposed to hand in heavy weapons as part of the Russian-brokered agreement signed in July 2018. The regime then started imposing a blockade on some 40,000 civilians living in the area.
All entrances and exits from the district were blocked, and the transportation of all medical and food assistance, as well as fuel, prohibited.
Daraa-based activists told Anadolu Agency (AA) that another reason for the regime to impose the blockade was because the region’s people had opposed setting up ballot boxes for the regime’s so-called elections.
