Sheikh Hikmat Salman al-Hijri, the spiritual head of the Almohad Druze, issued a statement from As-Suwayda on August 9, 2025, in which he offered condolences to the souls of the “righteous martyrs of As-Suwayda who fell in defense of land and honor” in the face of terrorist attacks that were described as having “nothing to do with humanity.” He pointed out that As-Suwayda recently witnessed crimes he described as “systematic extermination”, including the slaughter of children, the execution of sheikhs, the burning of houses, the kidnapping of civilians, a suffocating siege that included cutting off water, electricity and food, and indiscriminate shelling with rockets and mortars on safe villages, stressing that “the use of starvation as a means of pressure on civilians is a war crime described” under Article 54 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and Article 14 of Protocol II, and the amendment to Article 8 of the Rome Statute of 2019.
Talib Sheikh Al-Hijri inDescriptionThe United Nations and the Security Council “move immediately to end the deadly silence,” and set out five demands: “open an independent international investigation into the crimes committed in As-Suwayda,” “refer those involved to the International Criminal Court,” “send international monitoring missions to protect civilians,” “stop all forms of political and military support for the terrorist factions surrounding As-Suwayda,” and”put pressure on the de facto government to abide by the ceasefire agreement, and withdraw the militias outside the administrative borders of As-Suwayda to ensure the return of the people to their villages.” He denounced the fake media campaigns that “put the crime in a safety dress,” asking: “How can those who have children’s blood on their hands become advocates of peace?”
Sheikh Al-Hijri also thanked the countries and entities that supported As-Suwayda, including “US President Donald Trump for his clear position in supporting minorities and rejecting tyranny,” “the State of Israel, the government and people for its humanitarian intervention,” “the brotherly Arab Gulf countries,” and “the Autonomous Administration of the North and East of the Euphrates,” calling on the people of As-Suwayda to “unite the ranks and heal the wounds with love, peace and brotherhood,” stressing that “As-Suwayda will remain tall and its people a shield of truth and its mountain is unbreakable.”
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Note: This is a machine translation of the original text in Arabic.اقرأ المزيد