(20 Jul 2025)
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Busra al Harir – 20 July 2025
1. Displaced Syrian Bedouin Nour Mohammad washing clothes
2. Close of hands washing
3. Nour’s children
4. Close of clothes and bags
5. Nour’s son
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Mohammad, displaced resident from Al-Dour village:
“We fled due to the shooting. They were firing on houses. Neither side harmed us, but we were scared for our children because the bullets were hitting our houses, so we came here.”
7. Seif Al-Hajj feeding ducks
8. Ducks eating
9. Seif with his children
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Seif Al-Hajj, displaced resident from Al Dour village:
“We left there (Al Dour) due to a bombing. People were killed there but we could not reach them. They (Druze) killed a lot, they did a lot, they did everything, they are not afraid of God. We left because we were scared for ourselves, our children and our girls. You can see by your eyes how is the situation here, now there is no water, if I want to ambulate and pray I cannot, if I want to drink there is not water, the situation is bad but thank God for everything."
11. Various of Seif with his relatives outside building
STORYLINE:
Nour Mohammad, a Syrian Bedouin from Al-Dour village near Sweida in Syria, left with her children to escape shooting targeting her home.
Washing her clothes by hands in a house under construction in Busra Al Harir near Daraa, Nour said: “We were scared for our children because the bullets were hitting our houses, so we came here.”
Nour is living in one room of an unfinished house that is shared with five families.
The clashes between militias of the Druze religious minority and the Sunni Muslim clans killed hundreds and threatened to unravel Syria’s already fragile post-war transition.
According to the United Nations International Organization of Migration, more than 128,000 individuals have been displaced since the clashes began.
The clashes also led to a series of targeted sectarian attacks against the Druze community, followed by revenge attacks against the Bedouins.
A series of tit-for-tat kidnappings sparked the clashes in various towns and villages in the province, which later spread to Sweida city, the provincial capital.
Seif Al-Hajj, another displaced person from Al Dour, came with his family to the same house, carrying only mattresses and his birds.
“People were killed there but we could not reach them. They (Druze) killed a lot, they did a lot, they did everything, they are not afraid of God. We left because we were scared for ourselves, our children and our girls," said Seif Al-Hajj.
“There is no water, if I want to ambulate and pray I cannot, if I want to drink there is not water, the situation is bad,” Al-Hajj added.
Syria’s armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida following week-long clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid convoys started to enter the battered southern city.
AP video by Ghaith Alsayed
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