The baby girl Tala Rabi’ Al-Khatib was abducted with her grandmother, sister, and aunts after her parents, Rabi’ and Roua Al-Atrash, were killed. She was later returned with the family in a prisoner exchange.

📹 A perpetrator published a video showing the victims forced to give false statements, clearly trying to distort the truth. It shows the terrified girl Tala in the arms of the same terrorist who appeared in another clip boasting about killing an unarmed Druze civilian on sectarian grounds.

Shahd Marwan al-Khatib (20), daughter of Majda, survived but lost her father, brother, sister-in-law, and home. She was abducted by the same perpetrators — Ministry of Defense (Red Bands), General Security under the de facto authority, and allied tribal militias.

She was threatened with death and forced to give false statements. She and her family were used as bargaining chips before being returned in a prisoner exchange.

The images reveal some of the faces of the perpetrators involved in the Al-Khatib massacre in Radina al-Lawa — faces marked by cruelty and hands stained with blood, gripping weapons aimed at unarmed civilians.

🔹 Perpetrating forces: Ministry of Defense – the Red Brigades (suicide commandos of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham), along with elements from the General Security apparatus and loyal tribal militias.

🔴 A compound crime that includes:
• Genocide against a civilian family.
• Forced displacement and looting of property.
• Manipulating the narrative and exploiting children in propaganda.
• Abduction of women and children to be used as bargaining chips in prisoner exchange deals.
• Deliberate burning of civilian property.
• Severe threats and violations against women and children, including psychological and physical abuse.

🔹 After setting fires in northern Latakia, destroying vast areas, its forces moved to forests between Ain al-Kroum in the Ghab Plain and Jableh countryside toward the Sha’ra Mountains.

🔹 Several fires were recorded this month in the same area. Each time locals extinguished them, the authority’s elements ignited fires elsewhere days later. First near Ain al-Kroum, then Abu Qubais, Bet Yashut road, and two days ago near Faqrou.

🔹 These fires are part of Abu Muhammad al-Julani’s ongoing campaign against the Syrian people, especially Alawites: killing, kidnapping, dismissal from jobs, and looting. Now, they are also burning forests, a source of livelihood for many locals, such as bay leaves and firewood for winter.