📌 Documentation of an Extrajudicial Killing – Suwayda
Date of body documentation: 8/8/2025
Date of crime: July 2025

📍 Village of Lahta – Suwayda Governorate
👤 Victim: Martyr Adnan Youssef Al-Joumani – born April 17, 1954
Retired employee of the Ministry of Agriculture

He was killed inside his guesthouse in Lahta by members of the General Security and Ministry of Defense of the de facto authority, wearing uniforms marked with the logo of the terrorist group ISIS, after he refused to leave his home.

The execution of the Al-Amer family was documented. Their bodies were found in al-Suwaymira, some dismembered, left to decompose before the perpetrators — testimony to the brutality of the de facto authority’s forces, born out of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, today rebranded as “State Army and General Security.”

👤 Victims:
• Bashar Hamad Amer (60) and his sons: Wasim (24) and Omar (36)
• Rifaat Fawzi Amer (50)
• Osama Fadallah Amer (51) – brother-in-law of Rifaat; his body was not found but identified from the execution video

Media outlets of the de facto authority circulated images of the Druze martyrs, falsely claiming they were Bedouin. The bodies were left unburied for 35 days, as perpetrators passed by them before withdrawing from the village.

#Watch: Sheikh Masoud Ahmad al-Jaba’i, a 95-year-old elder from the village of Ta‘ara in the western countryside of As-Suwayda, was kidnapped for an entire month by elements of the General Security and Ministry of Defense of the de facto authority, along with some tribal militias. He was humiliated, beaten, had his mustache forcibly shaved, and was repeatedly threatened with harm to his sons. On several occasions, they placed a sword to his neck.

Upon his return from Daraa, the elder told his son in fear:
“Please, hide me… I am very afraid.”

He was a civilian who was subjected to a field execution, followed by the mutilation and burning of his body in Lahtha. The crime was carried out by the General Security and Ministry of Defense forces of the de facto authority, who wore uniforms bearing ISIS insignia to conceal their identities.

His body was discovered on 8 August 2025 after the Syrian Arab Red Crescent entered villages in northern and western Suwayda, which are under the control of the de facto authority. The bodies were found decomposed, burned, disfigured, and mutilated, reflecting the brutal nature of the de facto authority and constituting a flagrant violation of human rights.

These acts constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.