{"id":22439,"date":"2025-05-01T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/amid-sectarian-violence-in-a-syrian-city-even-the-funerals-are-armed\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:10:15","slug":"amid-sectarian-violence-in-a-syrian-city-even-the-funerals-are-armed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/amid-sectarian-violence-in-a-syrian-city-even-the-funerals-are-armed\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Sectarian Violence in a Syrian City, Even the Funerals Are Armed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Everywhere in the Syrian city of Jaramana on Wednesday, there were armed men, their movements staccato with tension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There were men in jeans or the black baggy pants traditionally worn by the Druse sect, rifles slung across their chests; men of no particular uniform blocking the roads into town; men with vests full of ammunition motioning tersely to one another. They were too preoccupied even to smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reason lay inside a Druse religious hall: seven velvet-draped coffins, surrounded by hundreds of sobbing women in white shawls. They held aloft the photos of seven men killed when assailants believed to be Islamist extremists <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/world\/middleeast\/syria-clashes-damascus-druse.html\" title=\"\">attacked Jaramana<\/a> with gunfire and shelling on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even as the funeral processions got underway, the men guarding them were receiving messages about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/30\/world\/europe\/syria-sectarian-fighting-druse.html\" title=\"\">spreading clashes<\/a> and rising death tolls in a largely Druse town nearby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While a few trucks bearing the logo of the Syrian security forces circulated in the city and community leaders said government forces had formed a cordon around Jaramana, most of the men with guns \u2014 including most of those killed \u2014 were residents who had organized to defend themselves, locals said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re not seeing anything from the government,\u201d said Ghassan Azzam, who was standing in the crowd outside the cemetery. \u201cWe\u2019re just protecting ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The clashes in Jaramana and Ashrafieh Sahnaya, both south of Damascus, the capital, were the latest surge in violence against Syrian religious minorities since the half-century-old regime of Bashar al-Assad and his family <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/21\/world\/middleeast\/assad-regime-syria-final-days.html\" title=\"\">collapsed<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new government, dominated by Syria\u2019s Sunni Muslim majority, has promised inclusivity for the country\u2019s minority groups and has at times stepped up security for them. But many minority Syrians say the government has squandered much of its credibility amid repeated attacks on minority areas, including the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/20\/world\/middleeast\/syria-alawite-massacre.html\" title=\"\">massacres<\/a> in March of civilians in Syria\u2019s coastal region, the heartland of the Alawite minority, by extremist fighters affiliated with the rebel coalition that seized power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEither the government is turning a blind eye, or it doesn\u2019t have the capacity to control anyone,\u201d said Rabee Mounzer, a Druse community leader in Jaramana, after the funerals on Wednesday. \u201cEither way, the government is responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He, like many others, feared a repeat of the coastal killings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This week\u2019s violence erupted early Tuesday after an audio clip circulated on social media purporting to be of a Druse cleric insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The cleric, who was later cleared by Syria\u2019s Interior Ministry, denied involvement \u2014 but not before incensed Muslims began threatening the Druse, who practice <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/30\/world\/middleeast\/druse-golan-heights-israel.html\" title=\"\">a secretive offshoot of Islam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBecause of one voice message, a voice message we don\u2019t even know from whom, all of Syria came to attack,\u201d Mr. Mounzer said. \u201cThis is unbelievable. It shows you how people are divided.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Armed men on motorbikes opened fire on a checkpoint run by government security forces on the eastern side of town at 2 a.m. Tuesday, killing two Jaramana residents, said Ahmed Dawoud, 52, who later joined the fray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At 5:30 a.m. that same day, after more civilians from Jaramana arrived to defend the checkpoint, dozens of armed men shouting, \u201cGod is great\u201d and wearing Islamic patches attacked, according to Mr. Dawoud and another resident, Mazen Ghazzar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Seven Jaramana men were killed, along with eight attackers, they said. When they searched the attackers\u2019 bodies, they said, they found an identity card, dated September 2023, with an administrative stamp from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that led the rebellion that captured Damascus in December. It was not clear whether the attacker was part of the government\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/world\/middleeast\/syria-president-ahmed-al-shara.html\" title=\"\">evolved from a group<\/a> once affiliated with Al Qaeda, has been absorbed into the new government\u2019s security forces. Not all of its fighters have joined, and an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/01\/world\/middleeast\/syria-israel-border.html\" title=\"\">array of other former rebels<\/a>, some with more openly extremist ideology, remain outside government control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even during Syria\u2019s 14-year civil war, residents said, there had never been sectarian violence in Jaramana, where Druse live alongside Christians and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Syria\u2019s longstanding taboo against discussing sectarian identity now seemed to be fading every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know why they did this to us; we\u2019ve all coexisted for decades,\u201d said Laureen al-Halabi, one of the hundreds of Druse women gathered in the religious hall to mourn on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Jaramana, many seemed determined to work across sectarian lines to defend the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s not about being a Druse or not,\u201d said Issam al-Mortada, a Christian, outside the cemetery, where men waved colorful Druse striped silk flags and chanted slogans in support of Jaramana. \u201cGuns don\u2019t distinguish between us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A Sunni Muslim woman was killed on Tuesday inside her home by a gunshot that residents said came from outside Jaramana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday, many residents said they had not slept from fear or had taken shelter with relatives or friends. Most shops and schools were closed. As night fell, a curfew took effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials say the initial attackers had been religiously motivated fighters unaffiliated with the government. Community leaders said government representatives had told them the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Government officials were \u201cvery respectful and positive,\u201d said Majed Salloum, another community leader. \u201cBut we want action.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/01\/world\/middleeast\/syria-sectarian-attack-druse.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere in the Syrian city of Jaramana on Wednesday, there were armed men, their movements staccato with tension. 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