The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

A series of violent explosions rock “Watad” Petroleum Station that is affiliated to the Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham north of Idlib

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: more than 6 violent explosions were heard today evening in Sarmada city at the border with Iskenderun in the southern countryside of Idlib, it turned to be caused by explosions of tanks loaded with fuel in “Watad” Station that is non-publicly affiliated to Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, and the reasons are unknown so far.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 24th of October 2019, that Olive compressors in areas of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib and Aleppo are witnessing the presence of members of the General Authority of Zakat, to apply the decision of collecting olive zakat, where the members are collecting their share by force under security accountable by members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and contrary to the decision issued by Zakat Authority; the members are collecting zakat without achieving the Nisab as stated in the resolution, where zakat collectors in the olive compressors are getting a fixed rate of 5%, whether or not the olives achieved the condition of Nisab or not.

Reliable sources told the “Syrian Observatory” that members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham do not distinguish between poor who doesn’t have more than several trees, and another who has hundreds of trees, where in Armanaz olive compressors a collector took 15 kg of olive oil, Also another collector did not take the zakat share from another person who compressed 13 kg of olive oil, so he was relieved of his work after his colleague told the officials that he was going easy with some people.