Fighting with Assad supporters: Apparently more than a thousand dead in Syria

According to activists, more than 1,000 people have already fallen victim to the outbreak of violence in Syria between followers of the fallen long-term ruler Bashar al-Assad and the new rulers. Security forces of the Islamist transitional government have caused real “massacres” among members of the religious minority of the Alawites, which also includes ex-President Al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in the evening among the killed are 745 civilians.

The bloodshed had started on Thursday. According to the new rulers, armed supporters of the fallen Assad government had attacked security forces near the coastal city of Dschabla in the province of Latakia, who is mostly inhabited by Alawites. The Institute for War Studies (ISW) in Washington wrote to be coordinated by the insurgents. On Friday, the transitional government moved larger troops to the region. The government troops used artillery guns, tanks and rocket launchers, it said.

A residents said that fear and horrors are widespread, especially among the Alawites. “There are many attacks and killings due to religious affiliation. Thefts also come, ”he said. Among the fatalities are also women and children, reported the Observatory for Human Rights, based in Great Britain, who pursues the conflict on a network of informants. She spoke of massacres in 29 locations of the Latakia, Tartus, Hama and Homs governments and accused the Islamist transitional government of war crimes.

The supporters of the fallen al-Assad would try to use this murders to mobilize minority groups, according to a report by the ISW. Especially among the Alawites, the feeling that the interim government of the new Islamist rulers suppresses and excludes them. For temporary president Ahmed al-Sharaa, the arguments are the first big exam. The former rebel chief had contacted the population on Friday evening and declared that the ex-government remains with their attacks to “test the new Syria”.

The observation center in Great Britain called on the international community for urgent action and called for the sending of experts to document human rights violations. In addition, she appealed to the Syrian authorities in the capital Damascus to be responsible for the reported executions. In Latakia there were also failures in electricity and water supply. Bakeries would have stopped production and markets were closed, which made it more and more difficult for the population to take care of, it said.

In the meantime, Israel will send a delegation to the Gulfemirate of Qatar on Monday to advance the negotiations on the negotiations on a continuation of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of the remaining hostages in the violence of Islamist Hamas. This was announced by the Israeli head of government Benjamin Netanyahu in the evening. According to information on the US news page “Axios”, the US specialist Steve Witkoff is expected to add on Tuesday evening.

A Hamas spokesman said there were “positive signs” that negotiations on the second phase of the originally agreed agreement could begin. However, an Israeli civil servant told the newspaper “Times of Israel” that he did not know about progress regarding discussions about the second phase. This provides for the end of the war and the withdrawal of the Israeli troops from Gaza. Israel's government wants the Hamas to agree to an extension of the first phase of ceasefire – and threatens to start the war without releasing further hostages.

The government of US President Donald Trump urges an agreement that would lead to the release of all hostages and an extension of the ceasefire until after mid-April and possibly a long-term ceasefire, wrote “Axios”. According to Israeli information, 24 living hostages and 35 corpses of abducted people are recorded in Gaza. Since Israel does not talk directly to Hamas, Egypt, Qatar and the United States act as an intermediary between the two sides.