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Druze Teen Details Rape by Syrian Jihadists
(Ynet News) Lior Ben Ari - Israel's Druze spiritual leader, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, presented new testimony describing rape, torture, executions and kidnappings carried out against Druze residents in Syria's Sweida province last July. He spoke at a UN event in Geneva on Tuesday that enables survivors of conflict-related sexual violence to share their accounts safely. The testimonies included the recorded account of a 14-year-old Druze girl who said she was raped by three jihadists - two wearing Syrian army uniforms and one identified as an Islamic State fighter. Tarif called on the world to recognize the Sweida killings as a war crime carried out by the regime of Ahmad al-Sharaa, calling it "a deliberate attempt to erase the Druze community." He urged the creation of a humanitarian corridor into Druze areas in southern Syria, an end to the siege on its villages, and the release of hundreds of Druze hostages. Footage shown at the event included scenes of executions carried out by al-Sharaa's forces inside a Sweida hospital.