(23 Jul 2025)
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Damascus-Daraa road, Syria – 23 July 2025
1. Various drone shots of Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy on road to Sweida ++ MUTE ++
2. Wide of convoy parked on road
3. Mid of Red Crescent vehicle
4. Wide of convoy and personnel
5. Wide of convoy including ambulances driving on road
6. Mid of red crescent vehicle
7. Wide of convoy and personnel
8. Wide of trucks on road
9. Tracking shot of convoy
STORYLINE:
A convoy of 22 aid trucks was on the way to the Syrian city of Sweida on Wednesday.
This was the second aid convoy by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to be sent since clashes erupted between the Druze minority militiamen and Sunni Bedouin tribes backed by security forces.
Wednesday’s trucks contained 4,000 food baskets, 66 tons of flour, 10,000 bottles of drinking water, and humanitarian medical supplies, according to Syrian officials. The first aid convoy entered the city on Sunday.
The clashes that took place in Sweida over the past two weeks broke out between Sunni Muslim Bedouin clans and armed groups of the Druze religious minority, and government security forces who intervened to restore order ended up siding with the Bedouins.
Members of the security forces allegedly killed Druze civilians and looted and burned homes. Druze armed groups launched revenge attacks on Bedouin communities.
Hundreds have been killed, and the U.N. says more than 130,000 people have been displaced. The violence has largely stopped as a ceasefire takes told.
The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Mohammed Hazem Baqleh, told The Associated Press that the situation in the city of Sweida was grim, particularly in the main hospital, where some 300 bodies piled up during the clashes. The city had been almost entirely cut off from supplies during the two-week fighting.
AP video by Ghaith Alsayed.
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