Mass protests | Military formations shoot protesters demanding expelling military formations from Daraa
Daraa province: A mass demonstration has erupted in Daraa Al-Balad, where protesters demanded the end of the fighting and the expulsion of the Fifth Corps military formations and auxiliary forces from Daraa.
The demonstration has set off from Al-Omari mosque, hundreds of civilians and headed towards Al-Hamadin.
Meanwhile, members of the military formations and local factions have fired bullets in the air and over the heads of demonstrators to disperse the protesters.
During the ongoing clashes with groups accused of belonging to ISIS, a member of local factions was killed in Daraa Al-Balad.
SOHR activists have documented the killing of eight people in ongoing clashes that renewed on Saturday, following the end of temporary truce declared by the factions and they are as follows:
• A media activist.
• Four members accused of belonging to ISIS
• Three members of local factions and the 8th Brigade.
Accordingly, the death toll from Daraa clashes in Daraa since Monday, October 31 has jumped to 17, and they are as follows:
• Four civilians, including two children and a media activist.
• Seven ISIS members.
• Five members of local factions, including a leader.
• A member of the 8th Brigade.
The shelling focused and concentrated on three neighbourhoods in Daraa, namely Al-Mohandseen, Tariq Al-Sadd, Al-Hamadin in Daraa and the northern district of Al-Sanamayn city.
Heavy weapons and tank shells were fired by military formations besieging ISIS cells.
Areas, where ISIS members holed up in Daraa, witnessed anti-aircraft shelling and clashes with individual weapons.
On Friday, local factions in Daraa extended the temporary truce, so that civilians could leave for safer areas, until Friday evening.
This decision followed yesterday’s meeting that was held between dignitaries from Daraa and local factions to discuss the ways of ending the ongoing fighting and clashes in Daraa.
Syrian Observatory sources also reported that local factions would resume anti-ISIS operation after the truce deadline expired.
On November 3, SOHR activists reported that dozens of families left Tariq Al-Sadd neighbourhood and Daraa camp to areas far from the confrontations, after local factions in Daraa Al-Balad announced a ceasefire a day earlier in Tariq Al-Sadd neighbourhood and Daraa camp until Thursday evening and called on other trapped and stranded families to get out of the besieged neighbourhoods in the area.
Meanwhile, Moayad Harfoush’s group stated its commitment to a ceasefire, so the civilians can leave safely the area.
Under the humanitarian situation, the Red Crescent Organisation near Saraya building did not provide support to families exiting from the besieged neighbourhoods, nor did they prepare a safe place for these families.
