(3 Apr 2025)
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Idlib, Syria – 3 April 2025
1. Various of people praying
2. Various of people holding banners that read (Arabic) "Idlib stands with Daraa until death" and "From Idlib to the south, we are all Daraa."
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed al-Mahlool, protester:
"We say to Israel that we are confident in our leadership, in the leadership of our president Ahmad al-Sharaa and we stand behind him in every decision he makes and we are with him without hesitation. We tell Israel, do not play with fire."
4. Various of protest
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed al-Zeer, protester:
"We are not Hezbollah and we are not the al-Baath party. We are the sons of the revolution, we are Muslims who sacrificed a million martyrs and we are ready to sacrifice another million to liberate the rest of our land from the occupation of the zionists."
6. Various of people chanting (Arabic) “Oh zionists, Idlib is not afraid of death,” and “Oh zionists, Syria is not afraid of death.”
7. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Protests were held on the streets of the Syrian city of Idlib on Thursday after Israeli strikes in Syria reportedly killed at least nine people in the southwest of the country.
Syrian state news agency SANA said that those who died in the strikes were civilians, without giving details.
Britain-based war monitor The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that they were armed residents from the Daraa province.
Israel had also struck five cities in Syria late Wednesday, including more than a dozen strikes near a strategic air base in the city of Hama, where Turkey, a key ally of interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, reportedly has interests in having a military presence.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the strikes had resulted in the “near-total destruction of the Hama military airport and the injury of dozens of civilians and military personnel.”
Mohammed al-Zeer, who took part in the protest, said they should not have been targeted as they “are not Hezbollah and we are not al-Baath party, we are the sons of the revolution.”
Meanwhile Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused Turkey of playing a “negative role” in Syria.
There was no immediate response from Turkish officials.
Israel has seized parts of southwestern Syria and created a buffer zone there since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, saying it’s to secure Israel’s safety from armed groups.
But critics say the military operations have created tensions in Syria and aims to prevent any long-term stability and reconstruction for the war-torn country.
AP video shot by Ghaith Alsayed
Production: Malak Harb
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