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Bedouins Evacuated from Syria’s Suwayda Describe Massacres

HeadlineJul 23, 2025

Syria’s government is evacuating Bedouin families who remain trapped in the city of Suwayda as a fragile ceasefire continues to hold between Druze and Bedouin fighters. Violence between the groups that erupted last week has displaced at least 93,000 people. Bedouin survivors say Druze fighters went door to door attacking entire families.

Ali al-Huraym: “We were still alive, sitting by the wall to hide from bullets. Two armed men came in and killed them all.”

Reporter: “Who did they kill?”

Ali al-Huraym: “My brother, his wife, both of his kids, 8 and 6 years old. And my wife, my mother, my sister and my daughter were injured.”

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