Blood continues to flow into the Damascene agglomeration. In the morning of Wednesday, April 30, fighting against the backdrop of denominational and community violence again took place in the city of Sahnaya, a city with a Druze majority, located twelve kilometers southwest of the Syrian capital. At least eleven people were killed, according to the official Syrian news agency Sana “In the past hours, attacks and clashes have continued, with light and medium -sized weapons, shells, drones and air forces, in Sahnaya and Achrafiyat Sahnaya, where around a million and a half people come from all of Syria”testifies Lama Alhassanieh, journalist and former professor at the University of Damascus, a resident of this suburbs attached by phone. The neighborhood was placed under curfew.
Fighting had already taken place the day before in this city and in another suburbs of the Syrian capital. Jaramana, located southeast of Damascus, woke up on Tuesday, April 29, to the sound of arms. Shortly after midnight, unidentified armed men burst into this neighboring city of Damascus, before opening fire on local security forces. “Minor skirmishes started after midnight, then violent clashes broke out in the early hours of dawn”says Eyad Alsharany, lawyer, resident of Jaramana, joined by phone. The city, where a majority Druze population lives – but also Sunni Christians and Muslims – is controlled by militiamen members of this religious minority, resulting from Shiite Islam, as well as members of the Directorate of General Security of the Ministry of the Interior.
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