📍 During the bloody events that struck Suwayda Governorate, three young men from the Druze (al-Muwahhidun) community were subjected to a mass execution by members of the General Security apparatus and the Ministry of Defense of the de facto authorities, with the participation of loyal tribal militias. The executions took place on the first day of the attack near Cleopatra Hall in the city of Suwayda.

🔻 The victims are:
• Nihad Ziad Saeed – from Ariqa village
• Alaa Bassam Sanjad – from Ariqa village
• Yamen Badawi – from Malah village (Nihad’s brother-in-law)

✒️ This act constitutes a summary execution, amounting to a war crime and a grave violation of international humanitarian law.

According to Soldiers of Christ, photos were published showing the body of martyr Milad Al-Farakh, a resident of Kafra village. The images revealed severe contusions, lacerations, and hematomas, consistent with systematic torture that directly resulted in his death at the hands of the General Security apparatus of the de facto authorities.
⚠️ The source stated it refrained from publishing further images due to their graphic and inhumane nature.

🔺 The victim was coerced under torture into making fabricated confessions, in violation of the prohibition of torture under the UN Convention Against Torture (CAT) and Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which guarantee protection from cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

🔻 Practices such as arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, and extrajudicial execution constitute grave breaches of international humanitarian law and amount to crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). These acts demand urgent international investigation and accountability mechanisms.

In a new crime against humanity, part of the ongoing pattern of systematic persecution and ethnic cleansing targeting residents of predominantly Alawite areas, elements of the de facto authorities executed the young man Abdul Hadi al-Mahmoud, a resident of al-‘Aziziyah – al-Ghab, in cold blood inside his own home, in front of his wife and children. This occurred less than 24 hours after his picture was circulated on inciting social media pages that openly called for the killing and forcible displacement of Alawites and other Syrian communities.

🔺 Only about ten days earlier, the same village witnessed another atrocity, when a grenade was thrown at the home of the Mukhtar of al-‘Aziziyah, killing his wife and leaving him with severe injuries requiring hospitalization.

🔻 These crimes fall within a coordinated and deliberate plan orchestrated by the so-called “General Security” apparatus, along with armed groups from the villages of al-Tamane‘a and al-Huweiz. The aim is to depopulate the villages of al-‘Aziziyah, al-Rasif, and Kafr ‘Aqid of their few remaining residents through extrajudicial killings, forced displacement, intimidation, and deliberate starvation, constituting grave breaches of international humanitarian law.