BEIT JINN, Syria: Whenever Fatima Al-Safadi hears a knock at the door, she imagines it might be her sons – among dozens of people Zionist entity has seized from southern Syria and whose fate remains unknown months later. Mohammed, 40, and Ahmed, 36, were among seven people seized in a nighttime Zionist army incursion into the village of Beit Jinn, southwest of Damascus, in June last year.<\/p>\n
Zionist entity\u2019s army said it apprehended several alleged members of Palestinian militant group Hamas accused of planning attacks on Zionist civilians and troops, and transferred them to Zionist territory \u201cfor further interrogation\u201d. Syria said a civilian was killed in the incident. Safadi, 57, has not seen her two sons since.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I hear a knock at the door and I rush to open it, but there is nobody there,\u201d she said, holding a picture of her sons close. \u201cI\u2019m afraid about what has happened… and that they won\u2019t be released,\u201d she told AFP. Beit Jinn is located near the Zionist-annexed Syrian Golan Heights and at the foot of Mount Hermon, known in Arabic as Jabal Al-Sheikh. Zionist entity moved its forces into a UN-patrolled demilitarized zone on the Golan after the December 2024 ousting of longtime Syrian ruler Bashar Al-Assad and now controls a permanent position at the summit of Mount Hermon. It has also launched hundreds of strikes on Syria and carries out regular incursions into the country\u2019s south, where it demands a demilitarized zone. Safadi said her joy at Assad\u2019s overthrow was overtaken by suffering after her sons were taken.<\/p>\n
Along the road leading from Damascus to Beit Jinn, Syrian soldiers with light weapons man checkpoints, while heavy army vehicles previously stationed near Jabal Al-Sheikh are gone. Another resident, Aisha Al-Safadi, 53, fought back tears as she spoke of her son Hassane who was among those seized in Beit Jinn last June. \u201cIt\u2019s hard because we don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened to him,\u201d she said, kissing one of his photographs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been counting the days and nights\u201d since he was taken, she said, his three children gathered around her. \u201cEvery day, I say to myself, he\u2019ll be released.\u201d She pleaded for the Syrian government to \u201chelp in every way possible to get our people released from Zionist entity\u201d. In a report this week, Human Rights Watch said that since Assad\u2019s fall, Zionist forces have \u201ccarried out frequent ground raids, airstrikes, and other operations in Quneitra, Daraa, and Sweida\u201d provinces in the country\u2019s south.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cZionist forces have also arbitrarily detained Syrian civilians and transferred them into Zionist entity, where they are held without charge and incommunicado,\u201d it added. Last November, the Zionist army said it carried out an operation in Beit Jinn to apprehend suspects from Lebanese Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, a Hamas ally which denied having any activity outside Lebanon. The operation left 13 Syrians dead and six Zionist entityi soldiers wounded. \u2013 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIT JINN, Syria: Whenever Fatima Al-Safadi hears a knock at the door, she imagines it might be her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[24923,29361,17989,33363,33364,33365,95,33366],"class_list":{"0":"post-94662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-families","9":"tag-fear","10":"tag-kuwait-news","11":"tag-kuwait-times","12":"tag-relatives","13":"tag-seized","14":"tag-syria","15":"tag-zionists"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116506684473842093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}