More than 1,000 dead in week of fighting in Syria's Sweida

More than a thousand people are believed to have been killed in a week of fighting in Syria's Sweida, even as an uneasy truce reigned across the governorate on Sunday.

Humanitarian convoys were readying to enter Sweida to ease the impact of days of sectarian violence that broke out last weekend between Syrian Bedouin, Druze and government forces.

Since midnight, "Sweida has been relatively calm", the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights (SOHR) reported, saying more than a thousand people had been killed over the past week.

The deaths included 336 Druze fighters and 298 Druze civilians, 194 of whom were "summarily executed by members of the Defense and Interior Ministries".

Also among the dead were 342 members of government security forces and 21 Bedouin, including three civilians, who were "summarily executed by Druze fighters".

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