{"id":15691,"date":"2025-07-22T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/communiques\/%f0%9f%94%b4press-release-serious-abuses-in-southern-syria\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:03:54","slug":"%f0%9f%94%b4press-release-serious-abuses-in-southern-syria","status":"publish","type":"communique","link":"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/en\/communiques\/%f0%9f%94%b4press-release-serious-abuses-in-southern-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd34Press Release: Serious Abuses in Southern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>L\u2019\u0152uvre d\u2019Orient is deeply concerned about the conflict currently affecting southern Syria, which has claimed at least 940 lives\u2014including 262 civilians\u2014and displaced 80,000 people.<\/strong> Homes in several villages with mixed Christian and Druze populations have been looted and then burned.<br> The Melkite church in the village of Sara was set on fire, and several hundred people have now taken refuge in the Melkite parish of Shorba, the Capuchin church, and the Greek Orthodox archbishopric in Sweida\u2014without water, food, or electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L\u2019\u0152uvre d\u2019Orient calls for:<br> \u2013 all parties to respect the ceasefire.<br> \u2013 an independent investigation be conducted into the executions of civilians<br>\u2014and that those responsible for the murder of Pastor Khaled Mazar, leader of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church in Sweida, who was executed along with all the members of his family, be brought to justice and punished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It urges the authorities in Damascus to allow the evacuation of civilians, establish a humanitarian corridor, and protect the population.<br> It calls for the international community to be able to provide emergency aid to the residents of the Sweida region and for support for the new authorities in Damascus to be conditional on respect for human rights and the protection of Syria\u2019s civilian populations, particularly members of the Druze, Alawite, and Christian minorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-15691","communique","type-communique","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\udd34Press Release: Serious Abuses in Southern Syria - \u0152uvre d&#039;orient<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oeuvre-orient.fr\/en\/communiques\/\ud83d\udd34press-release-serious-abuses-in-southern-syria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\ud83d\udd34Press Release: Serious Abuses in Southern Syria - \u0152uvre d&#039;orient\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"L\u2019\u0152uvre d\u2019Orient is deeply concerned about the conflict currently affecting southern Syria, which has claimed at least 940 lives\u2014including 262 civilians\u2014and displaced 80,000 people. 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