Bedouins tell the BBC that they can return to the fight with Druz

The Budouin fighters, located outside the southern Syrian city of Suwis, told the BBC that they would monitor the ceasefire with the Druza community there, but did not rule out the resumption of hostilities.

The Bedouin fighters have withdrawn from the city to the surrounding villages in the countryside after a week of deadly sectarian clashes between fighters of Drui, Bedouin and Government forces, with Israel making air strikes in support of Druza.

On Sunday, the observation group based in the UK said there was “cautious tranquility” in the region – but later stated that the tribal fighters had attacked villages.

From the city of Al -Mazaraa – the city of Druz until last week, when it was conquered by Bedouin and now under Syrian state control – smoke could be seen through the fields rising from the city of Subita.

At the nearby control and a mound of dirt, cut along the way. Dozens of State Security staff stood on it, all highly armed and blocked the Bedouin from re -entering the city.

Hundreds of Bedouin fighters, many rifles in the air, overflowed the road.

They want the release of injured Bedouin people who are still in the city of Suwaida, who call hostages. Otherwise, they say, they will make their way past the checkpoint and head back to the city.

“We have done what the government has ordered and we are engaged in the agreement. The words of the government and we have returned, Suvida is 35 km away,” an elder told the BBC.

“At the moment, our hostages and injured are there, they refuse to give us anyone … If they do not commit to the agreement we will re -enter, even if Suweida will become our cemetery.”

The long -standing tension between the tribes of Druz and Bedouin broke out in deadly sectarian clashes a week ago, after the kidnapping of a Druz merchant on the way to the capital Damascus.

The government of temporary President Ahmed al -Sharaa responded by deploying forces in the city. Druze residents of Suweida They told the BBC that they were witnessing “barbaric actions” As artillerymen – government forces and foreign fighters – people attacked. Israel focused on these forces, stating that they were acting to protect Druza.

Subsequently, the government forces withdrew and encountered Drui and Bedouin. Both Druzi and Budwin have been accused of atrocities for the last seven days, as well as members of the Security Force and the Provisional Government.

On Saturday, Al Sharaa announced the cessation of fire and sent security forces to Suweida to end the fighting.

Druza’s local fighters again control the city. But more than 1120 people were killed, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in the United Kingdom (SOHR).

The dead included 427 Druza fighters and 298 civilians of a friend, 194 of whom were “summarized by the staff of the Ministry of Defense and Interior,” the monitor said.

Meanwhile, 354 security security officials and 21 Sunni Bedouin were also killed, three of them civilians, which she said were “executed by Druze Fighters”. Another 15 government troops were killed in Israeli strike, the statement said.

At least 128,000 people have been displaced by violence, UN Migration Agency reported on Sunday. Suweida City has a severe lack of medical supply, SOHR said.

It is reported that the first humanitarian convoy of the Syrian red crescent has reached the city. Israel’s public operator has announced that Israel has sent medical assistance to Druza.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked the government to “be held responsible and to lead to justice of any guilty of atrocities, including those in its own ranks,” to maintain the possibility of united and Mirna Syria.

In Mia’rba, southwest of Suvida, the Bedouin refugees gathered at what was previously school. The village still wore the marks for years of the Civil War, with the buildings lying in ruins and covered with bullets.

At the centers for the distribution of the elderly, Bedouin women were collecting water from a reservoir on the back of the truck. Most of the people there were women and children.

Asked if he believed that Bedouin and Druz could live together, a woman displaced from the city of Subitida said it would depend on the government in Damascus.

“They can live together if the government will take and rule, and if the government will provide peace and security,” she said.

In the absence of state power, she said she believed that Bedouin could not trust the friend.

“They are traitors, without peace and security we cannot live with them,” she said.

Additional reporting by Jack Burgess