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They gathered all the men on the roof and opened fire on them,
Haidar said
There are six of us in the house, with my parents and my brothers. There’s been no electricity for four days, no water. We have nothing to eat and we do not dare go out,
he said on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safetyThere are houses with four or five dead bodies in them,
Haidar saidGod willing, we will be able to live together in this country,
he said at a mosque in DamascusIf I had been five minutes late, I would have been killed.”
He managed to escape with his wife and two children to a Sunni neighbourhood, but saidWe turned off the lights and hid. When we were able to flee our neighbourhood of Al Qusour, we found the roads full of corpses,
Kamel, a 35-year-old mother, told AFPMore than 50 people from among my family and friends have been killed,
he addedWhat crime did the children commit? Are they also supporters of the (toppled) regime?”
she saidWe have appealed to be able to bury our dead,
he saidThey entered the building and killed my only neighbour,
he saidI've lost seven friends since yesterday. My aunt was killed today near the city of Jableh; she was 78. Please protect us from this holocaust. We are pleading for help,
wrote a desperate Syrian citizen to Haaretz on Saturday
As I’m talking to you now, the corpse of my niece’s husband is in her home. They executed him in front of the family and no one can come to even console her,
said Adnan, whose family members reside in the Qusoor neighborhood and who said that all Alawite residents in the building were killed by government-affiliated gunmen
After they shot my sister, I heard them loading up the fridge and washing machine from her home and driving away,
Abu Ali saidRemnants of the former regime sought to test the new Syria,
Al-Sharaa said in a televised address Friday, calling on the gunmen to lay down their armsThose who bet on chaos do not yet realize that the era of tyranny has ended,
said a statement from the Syrian Ministry of Defense on SaturdayIsrael will defend itself against any threat from Syria,
he saidThe only reason I escaped was I managed to convince them I was Sunni and not an Alawite,
he said