{"id":126163,"date":"2025-04-29T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/fourteen-dead-in-the-druze-suburbs-of-jaramana-in-damascus\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:00:28","slug":"fourteen-dead-in-the-druze-suburbs-of-jaramana-in-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/fourteen-dead-in-the-druze-suburbs-of-jaramana-in-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen dead in the Druze suburbs of Jaramana in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\"><source srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/04\/29\/0\/0\/6850\/4567\/556\/0\/75\/0\/ea4ace0_ftp-import-images-1-pvmnujgivqky-5752198-01-06.jpg 556w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/04\/29\/0\/0\/6850\/4567\/600\/0\/75\/0\/ea4ace0_ftp-import-images-1-pvmnujgivqky-5752198-01-06.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/04\/29\/0\/0\/6850\/4567\/664\/0\/75\/0\/ea4ace0_ftp-import-images-1-pvmnujgivqky-5752198-01-06.jpg 664w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/04\/29\/0\/0\/6850\/4567\/700\/0\/75\/0\/ea4ace0_ftp-import-images-1-pvmnujgivqky-5752198-01-06.jpg 700w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/04\/29\/0\/0\/6850\/4567\/800\/0\/75\/0\/ea4ace0_ftp-import-images-1-pvmnujgivqky-5752198-01-06.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw\" alt=\"Un membre des forces de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 druzes monte la garde \u00e0 Jaramana, dans la banlieue de Damas, le 29\u00a0avril 2025.\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\"><\/source><\/picture> <noscript> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/04\/29\/0\/0\/6850\/4567\/664\/0\/75\/0\/ea4ace0_ftp-import-images-1-pvmnujgivqky-5752198-01-06.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the Druzes security forces was custody of Jaramana, in the suburbs of Damascus on April 29, 2025.\"\/> <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">A member of the Druzes security forces was custody of Jaramana, in the suburbs of Damascus on April 29, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Rami Al Sayed \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Fourteen people were killed in confessional clashes in the suburbs of Jaramana, an NGO announced on Tuesday, April 29. The authorities promise to continue the people involved in these clashes. Jaramana is a majority of Druze, which also has Christian families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Representatives of the Syrian government and Jaramana Druzes concluded an agreement after the fact, aimed at putting an end to the clashes and to court the people who launched the assault against this district of the suburbs of Damascus. The text, consulted by the France-Presse (AFP) agency, provides in particular that <em>&#8220;The attacks of the attack are prosecuted and translated to justice&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">These violence awakens the specter of denominational clashes, one month after massacres which targeted the Alaouite minority, from which the fallen president Bashar al-Assad came, overthrown in December by the Islamist coalition in power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), <em>&#8220;The security forces have launched an assault&#8221;<\/em> Against Jaramana, in the south-east of the agglomeration of Damascus, after the publication on the social networks of a vocal message attributed to a Druze and deemed blasphemous towards Islam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The OSDH said that the results of the clashes in the night from Monday to Tuesday <em>&#8220;Had climbed to fourteen dead: seven Druzes fighters from the city, as well as seven members of the security forces and affiliated groups&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">AFP could not verify the authenticity of the message, but a journalist attended the funeral of two members of the security forces killed.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__sub-title\">Local Druzes religious authorities condemn &#8220;any damage to the prophet Muhammad&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The Islamist coalition in power since December, by the voice of its interior ministry, said that the clashes had opposed <em>&#8220;Armed groups&#8221;<\/em> before the intervention of the security forces, which, according to the ministry, deployed <em>&#8220;To protect residents&#8221;<\/em>. The ministry also undertook to <em>&#8221; pursue &#8220;<\/em> armed men involved in these clashes, confirming without giving figures that there was <em>&#8220;Dead and wounded&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"inread  js-services-inread\">\n<p> <span class=\"sr-only\">The memorable world<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Test your general culture with the writing of the &#8220;world&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Test your general culture with the writing of the &#8220;world&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Discover<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">An AFP correspondent saw local fighters strongly deployed to all the access leading to Jaramana. For their part, forces dependent on the ministries of defense and the interior were sent on the road to the nearby Damascus airport with armored vehicles and machine guns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">In a press release, local religious authorities have <em>&#8220;Strongly denounced the unjustified armed attack on Jaramana <\/em>(\u2026)<em> \u00bb\u00bb<\/em>while condemning <em>&#8220;Any attack on the prophet Muhammad&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__sub-title\">Open survey<\/h2>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The Ministry of the Interior also announced that an investigation was opened to identify the author of the message and translate it into justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The Ministry of Justice said that it <em>&#8220;Would not tolerate any attack on the prophet&#8221;<\/em> Muhammad, but stressed that the use of justice was <em>&#8220;The only legitimate means&#8221;<\/em> and called the inhabitants to <em>&#8220;Refrain from any hate speech&#8221;<\/em>under penalty of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The highest dignitaries Druzes called for calm, one of them, the influential Cheikh Hikmat al-Hajri, denouncing <em>&#8220;Terrorist attacks&#8221;<\/em> against <em>&#8220;Innocents&#8221;<\/em>. 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Rami Al Sayed \/ AFP Fourteen people were killed in confessional clashes in the suburbs of Jaramana, an NGO announced on Tuesday, April 29. The authorities promise to continue the people involved in these clashes. 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