Overview

• Journalists were allowed into Sweida for the first time since July 13 and reported on widespread destruction and piled corpses in the city’s main hospital.
• The Syrian Red Crescent has organized bus convoys to evacuate hundreds of Druze, Bedouin and Christian civilians to safer areas.
• The United Nations estimates over 130,000 people have been displaced and essential services have collapsed under the city’s shattered infrastructure.
• Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has pledged to hold security forces accountable for civilian abuses, but no investigations have been announced.
• Local Druze leaders, citing deep distrust of the interim government, continue to refuse disarmament orders and maintain their weapons for self-defense.