In a public address broadcast by media outlets affiliated with the de facto authority, defected Air Force Brigadier Asaad Awad Al‑Zoubi appeared from the Saudi capital Riyadh, issuing statements that constitute explicit incitement to mass killing against Kurdish civilians in the Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods of Aleppo.

Personal details:
• Name: Asaad Awad Al‑Zoubi
• Rank: Air Force Brigadier (defected)
• Place of birth: Daraa Governorate
• Current residence: Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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🗣️ Content of the Incitement
• A public call to kill civilians en masse, describing the opening of humanitarian corridors as “the biggest mistake,” explicitly stating: “The biggest mistake was opening humanitarian corridors… they must all be killed.”
• Dehumanizing Kurdish victims by using demeaning and degrading language, referring to them as “vermin,” “not worthy of mourning or mercy,” and labeling them as “viruses” and “deadly poison that must be eliminated.”
• A complete denial of the victims’ humanity and any entitlement to compassion or protection.

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⚖️ Legal and Rights-Based Assessment

The statements aired on “Syrian News Channel” constitute:
• Open and direct incitement to genocide under international legal standards.
• Systematic hate speech targeting a specific group based on ethnicity and identity.
• Media preparation for atrocity crimes, normalizing and pre‑justifying bloodshed.

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📺 Role of Incendiary Media

This discourse bears no relation to journalism or the role of the “fourth estate,” nor does it fall under freedom of expression. Rather, it:
• Functions as a tool of systematic demonization.
• Justifies the targeting of civilians and reframes massacres as a so‑called “national duty.”

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🔍 A Revealing Admission

The sole accurate statement made by Al‑Zoubi was his acknowledgment that the Ministry of Defense “accurately identifies its targets.”
Indeed, documented evidence shows that these “targets” were:
• Residential neighborhoods
• Hospitals
• Civilian service institutions

📌 This confirms the deliberate targeting of civilians, not military objectives.

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❗ Conclusion

Any state that considers the existence of one of its societal components a crime, and its continued presence a threat, is a state that:
• Is governed by exclusionary logic
• Is built on hatred
• Is actively paving the way for its own collapse

History is unequivocal: states constructed on incitement and hatred ultimately fall by the very hatred they propagate—no matter how long it takes.

Jihadists members of the 60th Division, an armed terrorist faction affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the Damascus government under the de facto authority, carried out acts of dragging, abuse, and mutilation of the body of a Kurdish martyr after killing him.
The victim’s body was dragged along the stairs of a residential building in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo.

📹 Visual Documentation:
The incident is accompanied by video footage showing the same perpetrators recording the crime themselves, openly boasting and expressing pride in their actions. The footage constitutes clear and complete evidence of a war crime.

🗣️ Hate Speech Accompanying the Crime:
During the mutilation of the body, Takbir chants were heard alongside deeply degrading and dehumanizing language, including:
• “A pig has been trampled”
• “Allahu Akbar… carcasses”

These acts constitute a serious violation of human dignity and represent grave breaches of international humanitarian law, including the prohibition of mutilation and degrading treatment of the dead.

Documented footage shows terrorist factions affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the Damascus government under the de facto authority carrying out the arrest and arbitrary detention of Kurdish civilians in the Al-Ashrafieh neighborhood of Aleppo.

📹 Visual documentation details:
The footage shows several civilians being forced to kneel on the ground, before being restrained and detained under degrading conditions, in a clear violation of the fundamental rights of civilians.

🗣️ Hate speech accompanying the violation:
The arrests are accompanied by verbal abuse and dehumanizing language, with victims being subjected to racist and degrading slurs, including:
• “Pigs”
• “Straps”

These acts constitute arbitrary detention, degrading treatment, and serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.

Reliable field evidence — documented and recorded by the de facto authority’s own forces, specifically the 90th Division of the Syrian Ministry of Defense — indicates that the massacres and systematic campaign of genocide committed against unarmed civilians, particularly Kurds in Aleppo governorate, were carried out in a coordinated and deliberate manner by the terrorist elements of the Ministry of Defense under the de facto authority, under the direct supervision of their top leadership.

📌 Chain of Command and Direct Responsibility:
This documentation reveals that the field executions and mutilation of bodies carried out by the 60th Division were conducted under the direct supervision of a senior terrorist leader within “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham”, known as the “Shadow Man”, a brigadier in the 60th Division named Awad Al-Jassim (Abu Qutaiba Al-Manbiji).

The evidence shows that video footage was broadcast immediately and directly to the high command centers of the de facto authority during the commission of the crimes, enabling the leadership to receive live recordings as the events unfolded, which allowed for the issuance of urgent operational orders for extermination and direct oversight of their execution.

These facts constitute strong indicators of ethnosectarian genocide and war crimes, with clear documentation of command responsibility in accordance with the principle of the chain of command and control recognized under international humanitarian law.