A total of 480 air raids were carried out by Israel on military targets in the last 48 hours in Syria, including anti-aircraft batteries, airports, weapons production sites, weapons depots and military facilities. The IDF reports this, adding: having destroyed “most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria”. The Israeli Navy also targeted two Syrian Navy facilities, “destroying 15 ships,” the Israeli army added in a statement on Telegram.
It’s time for a showdown in Syria. The Assad regime has dissolved but the civil war continues more violent than ever, with the fury unleashed against the tormentors of the deposed rais. They went to get them from their homes, pulled down from their improvised hiding places. Dragged into the street, in Latakia, a north-western Syrian port for decades described as the stronghold of the Alawite clans associated with the Assad power. Members of what until a few days ago were the fearsome mukhabarat, the government control and repression services, were executed with gunshots to the temple or bursts of machine gun fire all over their bodies. A similar but bloodier fate befell other members of the regime’s security apparatus: killed and their corpses dragged for a long time through the streets of Idlib, a stronghold of the jihadists now in government in Damascus, while the angry crowd kicked them. There were dozens of summary executions carried out today in various regions of Syria, in particular in the areas of Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs and Damascus. A violence that comes from afar and is re-emerging with all its poisons in these frenetic hours of revenge, following the euphoria of the “liberation” of the last 48 hours. At least 40 corpses piled up with evident signs of torture and with fresh traces of blood they were found in Damascus in the Harasta military hospital. «I opened the morgue door with my own hands and it was a horrible sight: about forty bodies were piled up, with signs of terrible torture”, said one of the first Hayat Tahrir ash Sham militiamen who arrived in the infamous Harasta hospital-slaughterhouse. It is also the day in which shocking testimonies of the torture carried out for decades by the regime’s torturers continue to re-emerge. of political prisoners in Saydnaya prison. In the prison-hell, one of the torture rooms was found: a series of hanging ropes red with dried blood, a mechanical press for “crushing”. the lifeless bodies, which were then moved to the “acid and salt room”, where “they were dissolved”. On the wave of an ancient and encysted anger in the folds of a society raped for too long, the leader of the jihadist militiamen Ahmad Sharaa (Jolani) in the morning had announced his intention to publish a list of the “names of the most senior officers involved in the torture of the Syrian people.” “We will offer rewards to anyone who provides information on senior military and security officials involved in war crimes”Sharaa’s announcement read. While the prime minister in charge, Muhammad Bashir, promised that his new government will “disband the security services” of the dissolved regime. But if the most senior officers of the mukhabarat are those who have the greatest resources to escape abroad or to hide better, the fury has fallen on the middle-lower managers of the repression system. «He is an accomplice of the Tadamon massacres», states a militiaman in one of the videos that ANSA was able to view, indicating an alleged government soldier, stopped by the insurgents. The Damascene neighborhood of Tadamon saw the killing of 41 civilians by Assad’s soldiers in April 2013. As emerged at the time from a series of videos, confirmed by international investigators, the victims had been invited to run towards a pit and as they ran they were mowed down by bursts of machine gun fire, falling dead into the pit. In another video, shot in the town of Rabia, west of Hama, two men, accused of having committed crimes “against Syrians”, are surrounded by armed men in uniform. They shout at the two, accusing them of being “pigs Alawites.” The shots followed. Other bursts of automatic rifles exploded against an open-backed truck carrying pro-Kurdish militiamen captured on the eastern front of Dayr az Zor.