On November 8, 2025, in Suwayda Governorate, the bodies of five people arrived at the National Hospital in Suwayda, southern Syria, more than one hundred days after the invasion of the governorate by the forces of the interim authority, “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.”
Among the bodies identified in the town of Tha‘la, whose residents had been forcibly displaced during the invasion, were three women and one man: “Hasiba al-Ali, Hindiyya Dhib, Shukriyya al-Hamoud, and Khalid al-Shahin,” while efforts are still ongoing to identify the fifth body.
This incident came in the context of the violent clashes that erupted in Suwayda on July 12, 2025, between Bedouin tribes and the forces of the interim authority on one side, and armed Druze factions on the other, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds—most of them Druze civilians—and during which grave crimes were committed, including sexual assaults, acts of looting and burning of homes, sectarian attacks, and summary executions that included women and children.
