Syrian south .. Escalation of assassinations and actor unknown

Ammar Khasawneh - Al Jazeera Net

The scene of the assassination has never disappeared from the Syrian south for more than two years. But before the July settlement, most of the assassinations targeted leaders in the opposition. Today, the so-called settlement leaders and heads of municipalities and military leaders in the ranks of the regime's army .

At the beginning of this year, on January 4, the former leader of the Revolutionary Army - the opposition of the Syrian regime - Omar Sharif, and the former leader of the Fluja Hawran Mansour al-Hariri faction were assassinated, according to Abu Mahmoud al-Hourani, spokesman of Ahrar Houran group, Syrian conflict.

Sequential operations
According to al-Hourani, the assassination of Zahir Melhem on January 6 was one of the sons of Da'al.

Al-Hourani added that those operations were preceded by the assassination of the former leader of the opposition, and the former field commander in the ranks of the Revolutionary Army, Yusuf al-Hashish.

This operation was followed by the assassination of the mayor of Al-Yadouda municipality, west of the city of Daraa, on January 9, followed by an assassination attempt on the mayor of Al-Muzayrib, west of Daraa, and a few days ago, The eastern Daraa countryside, according to Hourani.

In this regard, the citizen Mohammed al-Zu'bi said that 'Abd al-Ilah was returning to his house in the evening and near the house he was asked by a person riding a motorbike to stop. Al-Zu'bi stopped and opened the car to hear what the man wanted to say, but the latter shot him directly and hit him in the head and shoulder, He was taken to the hospital and his children tried to ask him about the perpetrator, but his answer was "I did not know" before he was delivered an hour later.

Popular Resistance
Despite the large number of anonymous assassinations in the province of Daraa, there are some operations adopted by the so-called popular resistance, the last of which was the assassination of Lieutenant Nidal Qouja Ali with three members of the regime forces in mid-January, In the western province.

A leader in the ranks of the Popular Resistance, who declined to be named for the sensitivity of the security situation - Al Jazeera Net - The resistance movement formed by some elements of the revolution who refused to settle with the Syrian regime.

According to the leadership, the popular resistance operates according to plans and strategies carefully studied, and its work is not limited to the implementation of assassinations only to those who have made compromises with the system, but they are carrying out attacks on sites and points of military mission to the Syrian regime in all areas of the province, Individual wolves ", depending on the speed of the attack and achieving the desired targets and withdraw quickly.

For his part, the journalist Jawad Masalama, a member of the city of Daraa, said on his Facebook page that the assassinations in Houran - especially for the so-called mayors - are part of the Iranian project based on the demographic change of the region and to enable Tehran to put its men In the institutions of the state until the construction of the Syrian Hezbollah.

There are many questions, and the debate is about the truth of the identity of the perpetrators of these operations, which were and still are ambiguous, and remain conflicting news Lady position in the security and political conditions prevailing in the south of Syria.