Escalation in Sweida Simultaneous attacks on   National Guard leaders

During the past hours, the governorate of Sweida witnessed a series of simultaneous attacks targeting leaders of the "National Guard" militia, which reflects a security escalation in the area, amid data that suggests that there are internal tensions behind these developments.

  At dawn on Tuesday, the car of the commander of the "111th Brigade" in the "National Guard", Farouk al-Naddaf, was targeted with an explosive device planted inside it while it was parked in front of his house at the Tarabieh junction in the city, according to the local "Al-Rased" page.

It added that engineering teams inspected the site as soon as they arrived, stressing that investigations are still underway to find out the circumstances of the incident.

In the same context, the house of the commander of the "Rapid Intervention Battalion" in the "National Guard", Rawad Abdel Khaleq, came under direct fire at  dawn on Tuesday, according to a video published by the "Sweida 24" page.

These attacks come a day after a similar targeting of the car of National Guard commander Bassel al-Shaer, with an explosive device that exploded in front of his house, and the damage was limited to material, according to Al-Rased.

Demonstration in Support of Hijri Decisions

A few days ago, a number of people of Sweida demonstrated in Al-Karama Square in the center of Sweida city, and the call for the demonstration came under the title of supporting the decisions of "His Eminence Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri".

The organizers hung pictures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with a picture of Al-Hijri and Sheikh Muwaffaq Tarif and raised the Israeli flag.

According to local pages in Sweida, "the demonstrators demanded the right to self-determination, the return of occupied villages, and the disclosure of the fate of the missing and forcibly disappeared."

Sweida Media Center: A plan to assassinate 77 anti-Hijri figures

In a statement published on its Facebook page,  the "Sweida Media Center" quoted a former officer, who preferred to remain anonymous and only used the symbol "S.W.", as saying: "There is information that there is an assassination unit linked to a security office affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard Command, and that there is a plan under preparation to assassinate about 77 people, according to him."

The source added that these moves may be part of an attempt to create a state of security chaos by carrying out sporadic targeting operations that pave the way for a phase of organized assassinations, and opening the door to kidnappings and physical liquidations targeting activists and local figures.

The same  source described the military scene in Sweida as "on the verge of collapse", as a result of the conflict of interest between the armed factions, the lack of discipline, and the escalation of mutual discourse of betrayal.

The center said that the recent developments in Sweida reflect a complex reality in which security and political overlap, amid growing fears that the province will enter a new phase of escalation. Between the conflicting narratives and the lack of confirmed information, civilians remain the weakest link in a dangerous equation open to multiple possibilities, the most prominent of which may be an internal revolution that deepens the division and rift between families and those with social and religious power.

Hijri decisions. 'Internal disagreements'

Earlier this month, al-Hijri announced the dissolution of the so-called "legal committee", which was formerly formed following the events in the governorate last July.

The decision came according to a statement published by the page of the spiritual presidency of the Hijri group, which included the assignment of Judge Shadi Fayez Murshed to form an alternative entity under the name of "The Board of Directors in Jabal Bashan", in a step he said aims to bypass quotas and adopt scientific competencies in the management of local affairs.