After over a decade of brutal combating, the Fee Chair, Paulo Pinheiro, stated that lethal dynamics are inflicting new waves of hostilities.
“The latest direct combating in northeast Syria round Deir-ez-Zor between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the one hand and Arab tribes, Authorities forces and Iran-backed militia on the opposite, evokes the deeply entrenched grievances among the many inhabitants on this a part of northeast Syria,” he stated.
Regional tensions develop
The report hyperlinks rising regional tensions stemming from the Gaza struggle, elevated Israeli assaults towards Iranian officers and Iranian-backed forces throughout Syria, which resulted in at the very least three civilian casualties.
The Syria Fee says they’re investigating these assaults and famous that Iranian-affiliated teams have additionally focused US bases in jap Syria over 100 instances, prompting US counter-attacks.
In line with information reviews, an alleged Israeli strike on a facility that the West alleges produced chemical weapons on Sunday, left at the very least 18 useless.
Cluster munitions
Primarily based on investigations by the Fee, elevated violence in northwest Syria, together with Syrian Authorities forces’ use of cluster munitions in densely populated areas of Idlib, has killed or injured over 150 civilians, half of them ladies and youngsters. These assaults, together with Russian airstrikes inflicting civilian casualties, could quantity to struggle crimes, the report stated.
One other investigation was launched following a bloodbath in Dara’a by a pro-Authorities militia which brutally executed 10 folks, together with two kids, by knives or gunshots. These assaults might quantity to “struggle crimes of homicide and outrages on private dignity.”
“The occasions in Daraa bore the hallmarks of a number of the most heinous atrocities dedicated throughout greater than a decade of battle in Syria,” Commissioner Hanny Megally stated.
“Authorities forces stationed simply metres from the bloodbath didn’t intervene and defend civilians, displaying how Syria is descending deeper into lawlessness.”
Acts of torture
The report stated the Fee believes the Syrian authorities has continued to torture individuals in State custody by means of sexual and gender-based violence – together with different varieties – regardless of an International Court of Justice (ICJ) order to stop these practices.
Deaths in State custody have been documented, and Syrian authorities impeded households’ efforts to find their arbitrarily detained family members, usually demanding bribes for info or visits. In some instances, households solely obtained official notifications of deaths after a ten-year delay, leaving them in limbo for a decade.
These detention practices confirmed ongoing struggle crimes by numerous actors and, in State custody, crimes towards humanity.
Primarily based on the report’s findings, the Fee says “Syria is falling deeper into an alarming humanitarian disaster that threatens to spiral uncontrolled.”
It was additional famous that solely 1 / 4 of the humanitarian wants for 2024 are funded whereas 13,000 civilians face acute meals insecurity and greater than 650,000 kids present indicators of stunting from extreme malnutrition.
