Overview

• Security camera footage dated July 16 at Sweida National Hospital shows men in military and Internal Security uniforms executing a volunteer medic at point-blank range.
• Syria’s Interior Ministry appointed Maj Gen Abdul Qader Al-Tahhan to lead an internal probe and has vowed to identify and arrest the perpetrators swiftly.
• The Syrian Network for Human Rights and other advocates have called for an impartial international commission of inquiry into alleged abuses by defence and interior ministry personnel.
• Government troops continue to encircle Sweida city and restrict humanitarian convoys, contributing to the displacement of more than 130,000 residents in southern Syria.
• The execution video has deepened sectarian divisions between the Druze minority and Syria’s interim government under President Ahmad al-Sharaa.