Of Athena Papakosta

“I would not describe the ceasefire of fire in other words beyond the fact that it is fragile,” said Sky News journalist Alx Crawford yesterday.

Yesterday, the Bedouin armed tribes announced that they were withdrawing from the city -strong Drouz, after a week of deadly conflict, which threatened to fire in a country in which unity and thus peace hang from a thread.

In just one week of chaos and bloodshed in the Syrian south, the dead reached more than 1,000. Of these, 336 are Druze Fighters, the 298 Druzo civilians of whom almost 200 “were executed by summary procedures by Islamists affiliated with Damascus”, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At the same time, according to the same source, in the opponent camp, the Syrian government forces are counting 342 dead, while the Bedouins are only 21.

Currently the suede needs urgent medicines, water, food and fuel, and electricity and water supply has been discontinued. Supply has reached the outskirts but, according to reports, the Drouzes do not let her pass into fear that helping aid can be a potential threat to the city. As it is known, they are demanding that all the forces, naughty, regular army and police officers who are in the Damascus government be left.

During the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the humanitarian situation in the suede is getting worse at a time due to lack of drugs and as hospitals have been shut down. At the same time, more than 128,000 people have left the area.

Early on Sunday morning, the United States had intensified calls to end the battles.

US Special Envoy, Tom Barack, had called, through his post on the X platform, all the factions “to deposit, immediately, to stop hostilities and abandon racial revenge cycles”. As he emphasized, “Syria is at a critical juncture”, and added that “peace and dialogue must prevail now.”

It was preceded by the intervention by US diplomat leader Marco Rubio, who – also by posting – called on Syrian government forces to prevent the Islamic State and other violent jihadists to enter the southern part of the country, if – as it was – free from the Islamic State and Iranian control.

The European Union, on Saturday, was shocked by the hundreds of victims of recent days, “and in particular by violence that was committed by various armed groups against unarmed citizens.” At the same time, he urged “all the places to stop all acts of violence immediately”, while calling on Israel and all other foreign actors to fully respect Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

However, Israel held Sunday afternoon – warning – air raid on the outskirts of the sue, fleeing the naughty Islamist forces. As it became known, the Chief of the Israeli Army General Staff, Eyal Zamir, said that “the slaughter of the Drussians in the suea proves once again that in the Middle East, those who cannot defend themselves cannot live safely. Terrorist organizations and jihadist elements are a danger everywhere and must be fought. “

In the meantime, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Syria has addressed an urgent appeal for immediate international intervention in order to stop the Islamic attacks on the Drussians and the Christian communities in the sue. Describing violence as a “war of extermination”, the Church calls on the UN and world leaders to act quickly to prevent further massacres.