📌 Documentation of an Extrajudicial Killing – Suwayda
Date of body documentation: 8/8/2025
Date of crime: July 2025

📍 Village of Lahta – Suwayda Governorate
👤 Victim: Martyr Adnan Youssef Al-Joumani – born April 17, 1954
Retired employee of the Ministry of Agriculture

He was killed inside his guesthouse in Lahta by members of the General Security and Ministry of Defense of the de facto authority, wearing uniforms marked with the logo of the terrorist group ISIS, after he refused to leave his home.

The execution of the Al-Amer family was documented. Their bodies were found in al-Suwaymira, some dismembered, left to decompose before the perpetrators — testimony to the brutality of the de facto authority’s forces, born out of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, today rebranded as “State Army and General Security.”

👤 Victims:
• Bashar Hamad Amer (60) and his sons: Wasim (24) and Omar (36)
• Rifaat Fawzi Amer (50)
• Osama Fadallah Amer (51) – brother-in-law of Rifaat; his body was not found but identified from the execution video

Media outlets of the de facto authority circulated images of the Druze martyrs, falsely claiming they were Bedouin. The bodies were left unburied for 35 days, as perpetrators passed by them before withdrawing from the village.

#Watch: Sheikh Masoud Ahmad al-Jaba’i, a 95-year-old elder from the village of Ta‘ara in the western countryside of As-Suwayda, was kidnapped for an entire month by elements of the General Security and Ministry of Defense of the de facto authority, along with some tribal militias. He was humiliated, beaten, had his mustache forcibly shaved, and was repeatedly threatened with harm to his sons. On several occasions, they placed a sword to his neck.

Upon his return from Daraa, the elder told his son in fear:
“Please, hide me… I am very afraid.”