A Day in Syria: May 5th 2018
By Caroline Pearse & Ziad Arbaji
- A regulation was issued by the Syrian regime imposing on imams of Eastern Ghouta mosques to respect prescriptions in their speeches and to make invocations for Bashar al-Assad.
- The bombing of the Al-Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus by the regime and its militias resumed on Saturday morning.
- Two children died because of the explosion of a mine left by a cluster bomb previously dropped by the regime in Hayan locality in Aleppo province.
- Air raids, the night of Friday to Saturday, on the village of Al-Naqeer in province of Idlib, led to four victims, all civilians, and several injured.
- The Head of Defence of the French armies, General François Lecointre, « can not imagine » that American troops withdraw from Syria before the eradication of Daesh. He would suggest the withdrawal of French allied troops.
- Following the arrest of the doctor Mahmoud Al-Sayeh at the Al-Bab hospital in northern Syria, by a group of the FSA (Free Syrian Army), the coordination of the city called for a general strike today. Al-Hamzat’s group had entered the hospitals several times. The group also arrested a nurse at Al-Salam hospital and fired shots in the air inside the hospital compound. Surveillance videos were published in support.
- A demonstration took place this Saturday in the city of Al-Bab, northern Syria, against the aggression and arrest of hospital staff. Al-Hamzat’s group dismissed the fighters responsible for these acts, without further details regarding possible judiciary intervention.
- According to Jan Egeland, a UN adviser, « the war in Syria is still going on among the civilian population, the conflict is not over, it just moved from one area to another. «
