Sunday News Bulletin from Hizb ut-Tahrir Radio, Syria Province
2025/07/20M
Headlines:
- Relative calm, and deployment of public security: The Ministry of Interior announces the evacuation of the city of Sweida from tribal fighters.
- Thomas Barak discusses with Mazloum Abdi the steps of integration into the Syrian state.
- Dozens of settlers storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the occupation police, and the war of extermination on Gaza continues with bombing and starvation.
Details:
The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced, on Saturday evening, the evacuation of the city of Sweida from all tribal fighters, and the cessation of clashes within the city's neighborhoods. The announcement came through the "SANA" agency, which quoted the spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Nour al-Din al-Baba, as saying that "the Ministry has made diligent efforts to implement the ceasefire agreement, and after the deployment of the Internal Security Forces in the northern and western regions of the Sweida Governorate, the city was completely evacuated from tribal fighters, and the clashes within its neighborhoods were stopped." This comes hours after the Presidency of the Republic announced the reaching of a new agreement with the Druze factions, which includes a comprehensive and immediate ceasefire in Sweida. The site reported a gradual withdrawal of tribal fighters from the countryside of the Sweida Governorate, towards the eastern countryside of the Daraa Governorate, amid a relative calm prevailing in the region after four days of violent clashes. He explained that the Public Security Forces began to deploy in the northern and western countryside of Sweida, where they set up barriers to prevent tribal fighters from entering the city again, while allowing them to exit through specific corridors. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health announced the dispatch of an "urgent" medical convoy to the Sweida Governorate. The Ministry said that the convoy includes 20 ambulances "fully equipped", accompanied by "specialized and highly prepared" medical teams, in addition to large quantities of medicines and first aid supplies.
The Hebrew Broadcasting Corporation published, yesterday, Saturday, that the Ministry of Health in the Jewish entity is preparing to send medical equipment and medicines to Sweida, southern Syria.
The Prime Minister of the Jewish entity, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Thursday that he had defined what he described as a clear policy towards Syria, which is the disarmament of southern Damascus from the Golan to Jabal al-Druze. This is a comment written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir Radio by Nabil Abdel Karim: (Comment)
The US envoy to Syria and Washington's ambassador to Turkey, Thomas Barak, met with the commander of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, and discussed with him the steps of integration into the Syrian state. The US Embassy in Damascus said in a post on its Facebook account that the US Special Envoy to Syria met on Saturday with Mazloum Abdi "to discuss the current situation in Syria and the need to take urgent steps to restore calm and stability." The embassy added that they "discussed practical steps towards integration into a unified Syria for a peaceful, prosperous, inclusive and stable future for all Syrians." It concluded its post by saying that the two sides "agreed that the time for unity is now. Barak also expressed his thanks to Abdi for his leadership, and for the continued partnership of the Syrian Democratic Forces in fighting the Islamic State organization in Syria." For his part, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on the Syrian government on Saturday to prevent the "Islamic State" organization from reaching the south of the country. Rubio said in a post on the platform, "If the authorities in Damascus want to maintain any chance of achieving a unified, inclusive and peaceful Syria free from the Islamic State and Iranian control, they must use their security forces to prevent the Islamic State and any other violent jihadists from entering the region and carrying out massacres. They must hold accountable anyone guilty of committing atrocities and bring them to justice, including those in their ranks. Furthermore, the fighting between Druze and Bedouin groups within the perimeter must stop immediately."
Dozens of settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning, Sunday, from the "Al-Maghariba Gate", under heavy protection from the occupation police. The "Islamic Endowments Department" (affiliated with Jordan) in occupied Jerusalem reported that dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa, roamed its courtyards, and performed Talmudic rituals in the eastern region of it. Al-Aqsa Mosque is subjected daily to a series of violations and raids by settlers, under the protection of the occupation police, in an attempt to impose full control over the mosque, and divide it temporally and spatially.
While the occupation army continues its war of extermination against the besieged Gaza Strip, committing massacre after massacre, especially against aid seekers in the Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza rang the alarm bell on Saturday, renewing its warning of the repercussions of the catastrophic famine that is hitting the Strip as a result of the strict closure of the crossings since the beginning of last March. The ministry confirmed a significant increase in mortality rates due to hunger. For its part, the Hamas movement called on Saturday for a global movement to save the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip from death by bombing, starvation and thirst. The movement added in a statement: "Let Sunday and the coming days be an overwhelming cry of anger in the face of the Zionist occupation and against the systematic starvation in the Gaza Strip." In the statement, the movement renewed its call to "the Arab and Islamic nation and the free people in the whole world for a global movement in all forms of massive popular marches and solidarity activities, by raising the voice high, and exerting all political, diplomatic, parliamentary, labor and student pressures, in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, in support of their steadfastness, and against the war of extermination and starvation, until the brutal aggression is stopped and the unjust siege is ended."
