The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented human losses due to attacks from the remnants of the Assad regime in the Syrian coast, and the counter-offensive by government forces in the region.
Armed gangs kill 100 security personnel
The director of the SNHR, Fadel Abdul Ghani, stated that armed gangs outside the state authority attacked the General Security Forces yesterday and today, killing about 100 of them.
Abdul Ghani explained to Enab Baladi that the attacks were organized and coordinated, carried out through ambushes and traps.
The gangs also killed 15 civilians in Jableh, according to Abdul Ghani, leading security forces to intervene against these gangs, which they labeled as “remnants of the regime.”
125 civilians killed at the hands of government-supported forces
However, the security campaign witnessed violations against civilians during the ongoing operations in the coast, with civilians being executed who did not carry weapons.
Abdul Ghani believes that elements from northern factions, along with others coming after security courses and untrained individuals, and civilians who took up arms and fought alongside the General Security, are responsible for these violations.
He clarified that the initial death toll among civilians over the past 48 hours is around 125.
Incidents that resulted in civilian deaths occurred in the villages of al-Mukhtariya, al-Haffa, Arza, Qamhana, al-Fandara, Baniyas, and the western countryside of Hama, with corpses left untransferred to hospitals.
Call for investigation and apology
Fadel Abdul Ghani called on the Ministry of Interior to open an investigation into the matter since the operations to liberate Syrian provinces before the fall of the Assad regime did not result in a single civilian death.
He stressed the necessity for an apology to the families of the victims, providing compensation, and holding the perpetrators of the violations accountable, as the lack of such actions would open the door to retaliatory operations and sectarian violence, noting that the Alawite community largely does not support these gangs.
In recent hours, activists circulated on social media video recordings showing corpses in the streets, which Enab Baladi could not verify in terms of identity and distinguishing between civilians and military personnel among them.
Obituaries have spread detailing the deaths of civilians who had no connection to the attacks by the regime’s remnants.
The forces of the Ministries of Interior and Defense continue security sweeps in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus since Thursday, following attacks carried out by the remnants of Assad’s regime, targeting security convoys in the rural areas of Latakia, resulting in casualties and injuries.
In a comment on these events, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani stated that Syria has been facing, since the first day of the fall of the ousted regime, a covert and open war to break the will of the Syrian people and to defeat them in security, politics, and governance by spreading chaos on one hand, and attempts at political closure abroad on the other.