Overview

• Verified CCTV from Sweida National Hospital shows four men in camouflage and one in an Internal Security Forces uniform ordering medical staff to kneel before shooting volunteer Muhammad Bahsas at point-blank range
• Syria’s Interior Ministry publicly condemned the footage as “disturbing” and assigned Deputy Minister for Security Affairs Maj. Gen. Abdul Qader Al-Tahhan to lead the investigation
• Local rights monitors and Druze community leaders labeled the killing an extrajudicial execution and called on the United Nations to establish an independent international commission
• The hospital execution occurred after July clashes between Druze militias, Bedouin tribes and government forces that rights groups report left over 1,000 people dead in Sweida province
• Humanitarian conditions in Sweida remain fragile with widespread displacement, restricted aid access and deepening mistrust of security forces