Daraa witnesses more assassinations along with the continued failures at reaching an agreement about the situation of the Syrian South
Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces opened fire of their heavy machineguns, targeting areas in Daraa Al-Balad in Daraa city, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, while the body of an unidentified person was found on the road to Sayda town, without information about the reasons and circumstances of his death so far, thus, it rose to at least 27, the number of people who were assassinated by unidentified gunmen whether by abductions and murders, shooting or detonating IEDs.
Where the Syrian Observatory published on the 10th of June 2018, that the countryside of Daraa is still witnessing continued failures at reaching an agreement about the situation in the Syrian South, where it still witnessing a continued state of security chaos, either by the abductions which are carried out almost daily, or the assassinations which are carried out at similar periods of time, and since the start to pay attention to the file of the Syrian South, after the presence of the organization in the south of the capital Damascus was completely finished and its departure from the capital on the 22nd of May 2018, and after spotting the lights and moving towards the file of the Syrian South, in order to reach a local – regional – international solution about it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented escalated assassinations which targeted the members of the “reconciliation” committees, which work with the regime in both Daraa and Al-Quneitra countryside, in order to reach local “reconciliations” inside the Syrian South, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored assassinations which targeted and killed 11 members of the reconciliation committees, in Daraa countryside, where they were targeted by unidentified gunmen, either by shooting them or detonating IEDs in their vehicles, also failed assassination attempts were carried out against a number of members of the “reconciliation” committees, within the assassinations which reached 25 assassinations in Daraa countryside, since they started to be escalated along with the start of the regime’s mobilizations and its threats of the military operation that is being prepared for, in the Syrian South, since the regime forces dropped leaflets calling for “reconciliation, drop of weapons, and, cooperation to stop the bloodshed” on the 25th of May, where this assassination and the other ongoing assassinations come after the start of mobilization by the regime forces and their allies in the Syrian South in preparations for a military operation in the case of the failure of the negotiations which are underway between regional and international parties about the situation in the Syrian South.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received information reporting that negotiations are underway between regional and international parties about the current and future situation of the military forces operating in the countryside of Daraa and Quneitra, and the information reported that Jordanian – American – Russian consultations are taking place about several points concerning the stay of the rebel and Islamic factions operating in Daraa; in exchange for handing over their medium and heavy weapons, and the entry of Russian military police, and that any force or members belong to the Iranian forces, the Lebanese Hezbollah and their affiliated militia will not enter, and the border points will be handed over to regime’s police and its border guards, and also the area will be managed by local councils that will be formed from residents of the area, while the SOHR has monitored the inability of the factions who are in control of the area, to control the security situation and prevent the repetition of such incidents, where the unidentified gunmen carry out abductions, murders, shooting and planting IEDs on the ways of civilian and military cars and vehicles.