The balkanization of Syria is underway, they are trying to purge all the ethnic minorities that until now had somehow coexisted under the name Syria regardless of who governed the Assad family.
We can find three areas of open conflict with daily deaths. We have the SDF side that is constantly in the sights of the Turks, as Kurds who literally sit on Syrian black gold and who try to resist the Turks.
In the deep south there is Israel that taking advantage of the clashes on the coast is expanding in a post it reads: “After all the terrorist groups HTS (al Jawlani/al Shara government) moved to kill the Syrian people on the coast and left Daraa exposed to Israel, the inhabitants of the city of Harrah, in the countryside of Daraa, are on maximum alert in anticipation of any Israeli incursion. In particular, Israel is interested in the Golan Heights that they have already taken and are interested in creating a thunder government to give into the hands of the Druze who live there. This is in function anti-revolutionary Shiites and anti-revolutionary Sunnis who could threaten Israel. In some photos you can see “the Syrians of the countryside of al-Qunaitra, in southern Syria, who live under Israeli control, protesting against the pro-Assad cells and against the Coastal Shield”.
During the night Israel launched 4 flares in the countryside of al-Qunaitra, in southern Syria. Israeli forces fired machine guns near the towns of Suwaysa and Kodna in the southern Syrian countryside of al-Qunaitra, warning residents to stay inside. Israeli reinforcements have arrived in Jabah, also in the southern Syrian countryside of al-Qunaitra.
Meanwhile, in the only cities not affected by the Syrian revolution because they are predominantly Alawite, civil war has begun: Tartus and Latakia. Again according to pro-Alawite Syrian accounts: “The incumbent government has begun distributing free weapons to civilians loyal to them, a move that signals catastrophic consequences and reveals premeditated intentions to drag the region into further chaos and violence.” Let us remember that the same thing happened in 2011 by the Alawites in an anti-Sunni function.
On March 7, the Operations Command of the Supreme Defense Council of the new Syrian government posted the following message: “The beginning of the battle of Tartus. We ask all our people in Tartus to stay home.” Seventy confirmed deaths on the first night of battle. Idlib mosques call for a general mobilization against pro-Assad cells in Syria.
HTS (Jawlani/al Shara government) affiliated groups now sell photos of beheaded Alawites on Telegram. The slogan circulating among Jawlani fighters in the social sphere is “Either Syria will be ours, or we will burn it from top to bottom”.
In the late morning of March 7, the Syrian Alawite factions (Coastal Shield Brigade) announced the control of the Mi’ar Shaker bridge in Tartous and also the port, and Istamo airbase. In the house-to-house clashes, men, women, and children are killed indiscriminately.
Ghiath Suleiman Dalla, Commander of the Alwaite Military Council for the Liberation of Syria (against al Jawlani) said: “We are working to negotiate with Jabhat al-Nusra (HTS) for the release of our prisoners and soldiers held in gang prisons, in exchange for their complete withdrawal from the Syrian coast. We treat the prisoners well and guarantee their safety. The Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists should pay attention: we have hundreds of their prisoners and our conditions are simple, not complicated. They must expel foreign terrorists from the coast immediately.
Commander of Coastal Shield operations Muqdad Fatiha also called on Druze, Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis to fight “against the terrorist gangs of Jawlani”. Meanwhile, from Lebanon, armed Lebanese Sunnis from Wadi Khaled expressed their support and announced that they are ready to support the Syrian government to attack Alawites in Syria.
Furthermore, clashes are reported along the Hermel-Homs border (Lebanese-Syrian border), between pro-Hezbollah Lebanese clans and Syrian government forces. In the late morning of March 7, violent clashes broke out again between Lebanese clans and Syrian government forces along the Syrian-Lebanon border, in the Hermel-Homs regions.
Ambushes are reported in Aleppo against government convoys. Meanwhile, Turkey is sending convoys to support al Jawlani.
Antonio Albanese e Graziella Giangiulio
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