Last Remaining Bedouin Tribes Evacuated from Outside Al-Suwayda to Daraa

The last families of the Al-Suwayda tribes in the province left yesterday evening, Thursday, via buses to shelters in Daraa.

According to the official SANA agency, 8 buses evacuated 248 individuals who were detained from the village of Rima Al-Lahf in the countryside of Al-Suwayda, the majority of whom were women and children.

Official sources in the province of Al-Suwayda also reported that the fourth and final batch of tribal families arrived at shelters in the cities of Da'el, Nawaimeh, Yabroudah, and Al-Mazirib in the countryside of Daraa.

A Syria TV correspondent mentioned yesterday that buses entered the western countryside of Al-Suwayda in preparation for evacuating the fourth batch of tribal families.

The evacuation operations came after the announcement of a ceasefire agreement in Al-Suwayda following bloody clashes between tribal forces and local factions in the province.

The third batch of civilians, consisting of 500 individuals from the Al-Suwayda tribes, mostly women and children, left the day before yesterday, Wednesday.

On Tuesday, teams from the Syrian Red Crescent evacuated the second batch of civilians outside the province of Al-Suwayda, including families from the Christian community and teams affiliated with the United Nations.

Last Monday, the first batch of tribal families left after being held for days in the city of Al-Suwayda to Daraa, including around 300 individuals who were evacuated by buses to the town of Basr Al-Harir in the eastern countryside of Daraa.