With the return of calm to al-Lajat area, assassinations return and leave a new victim raising the death toll to 30 since the beginning of escalation in Daraa province

Daraa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: as soon as the calm returned to al-Lajat area in the northeastern sector of the countryside of Daraa, after violent clashes in the area between the regime forces and their allies against fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions; the assassinations returned to target fighters in Daraa province, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the find of the body of a fighter of a faction working in the area, who was assassinated by killing him and throwing his body in al-Lajat area, but no information about the party that killed him.
The assassinations returned to Daraa again after days of absence; due to the preparations that are taking place for a large-scale military operation, which is expected to be carried out if the regional and international parties announce the failure of reaching an agreement about the status of the Syrian south.

Raising to at least 30, the number of people who were assassinated by unidentified gunmen either by kidnappings, murders, shooting, and IED detonations, and among them there are 12 of the “reconciliation committees members”, since the 25th of May 2018, the date of dropping leaflets by regime’s helicopters on the area calling to “stop the bloodshed and return to the bosom of the homeland and handing over the weapons”

The Syrian Observatory published on the 10th of June 2018 that 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, while 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.