(18 Mar 2025)
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Daraa – 18 March 2025
1. Mourners chanting UPSOUND (Arabic): "Khaybar (referring to a 7th century battle), Khaybar, oh Jews. The army of Muhammad shall return"
2. Mourners gathered
3. Various of mourners chanting in support of the Gaza Strip
4. Deceased Syrian man in casket
5. Syrian security personnel in moving vehicle
6. Funeral, mourners marching
7. Boy holding sign reading (Arabic/English): "Peaceful, but we’re not weak" and another holding a sign reading (Arabic): "300 martyrs in Gaza in one day and nobody is moving against the Zionist crimes in Gaza"
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Islam Darawi, mourner:
"We offer our condolences to the families of the martyrs who were killed by the treacherous Israeli airstrikes. On this same day, March 18 (2011), we mourned the first two martyrs of the Syrian revolution. And today, we are repeating the same history. History is going to be re-written and good tidings have emerged from Horan (region in the Levant). Gaza and Daraa share the same wound against the Jewish occupier."
9. Mourners during burial
10. Rubble and destruction
11. Various of Syrian flag flying on top rubble
12. Workers clearing debris
13. Ambulance outside Daraa hospital
14. Wounded people inside hospital
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mounir Habib, wounded man:
"The Zionist airstrikes hit us. We were six young men, two of us were slightly wounded, two were spared and two were martyred."
16. People entering hospital
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Nizar Rashdan, director of Daraa National Hospital:
"Around 25 wounded people arrived to the hospital, three were martyrs and one was a serious neurological case that will require a surgical procedure due to a skull fracture. The rest of the injuries vary between bone trauma, shrapnel (wounds) in the body, and inhalation issues caused by the explosive substances and the dust."
18. People inside hospital
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of one of the victims of an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian city of Daraa, in which three people were killed.
Many of the mourners were already in the southwestern city on Tuesday to mark the 14th anniversary of a shooting by government forces that sparked the uprising against Bashar Assad’s government.
Syria’s Civil Defense said that three people were killed and 14 injured in the strikes on Monday.
Dr. Nizar Rashdan, director of the Daraa General Hospital, told The Associated Press that the airstrike hit an abandoned army barracks near a residential area killing three and wounding 25.
Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned the airstrikes as a violation of international law.
In 2011, government forces opened fire on a protest in Daraa that left dozens killed or wounded and sparked a deadly civil war.
The commemoration of the shooting was held at the city’s Omari Mosque where hundreds of people marched Tuesday chanting “Oh Gaza, we will support you to death.”
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