
The Syrian government forces were accused of carrying out a massacre in a hospital during the sectarian clashes that erupted slightly more than a week ago.
BBC visited the National Hospital of Sweden, where employees claim that patients were killed inside wings.
Warning: This story contains a description of violence
The bad smell hit me before anything else.
At the parking lot at the main hospital in the city of Sweden, dozens of decomposing bodies in the white plastic bags are lined up.
Some are open to the elements, and reveal exhausted and distorted residues for those who were killed here.
The runway under my feet is greasy and slipped in the blood.
In the hanging sun, the smell is overwhelming.
“It was a massacre,” Dr. Wesam Masoud tells me, a hospital neurosurgeon.
“The soldiers came here, saying they wanted to bring peace, but they killed dozens of patients from young to the old.”
Earlier this week, Dr. Masoud sent me a video that he said in the wake of the government’s raid.
In it, a woman appears around the hospital. On the floor in the wings, dozens of dead patients are still in blood -stained bed sheets.

Everyone is here, doctors, nurses, volunteers say the same.
Last Wednesday evening, the Syrian government forces were targeting the Druze community that came to the hospital and carried out killings.
“What is their crime? Only because they are a minority in a democratic country?” Said Abu Moutab, a volunteer in the hospital.
“They are criminals. They are monsters. We are not trusting them at all,” Osama Malak, an English teacher in the city outside the hospital doors.
“They shot an eight -year -old disabled boy,” he said.
“According to international law, hospitals must be protected. But they attacked even in hospitals.
“They entered the hospital. They started shooting at everyone. They shot patients in their family while sleeping.”
All parties in this conflict accused each other of atrocities.
Both Bedouins and Druze fighters, as well as the Syrian army, were accused of killing civilians and additional judicial killing.
There is no clear picture of what happened in the hospital. Some people here estimate the number of people who will be killed last Wednesday at more than 300, but this number cannot be verified.
On Tuesday night, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that it was familiar with reports of “shocking violations” by people wearing military fatigue in the city of Suwaida in the country.
Earlier this week, Raed Saleh, the Syrian Minister of Disaster Management and Response of Emergency Cases, told me that all allegations of the atrocities committed by all parties will be completely investigated.
Access to the city of Suwaida is largely restricted, which means that collecting direct evidence was difficult.
The city is valid under siege with the Syrian government forces that restrict those who allow the interior and exit.
To enter, we had to pass through many checkpoints.
When we entered the city, we passed the shops and burned buildings, and cars that were crushed by my tanks.
The city of Suwaida clearly witnessed a dangerous battle between the Druze fighters and the Bedouin militants.
At that stage, the Syrian government intervened for the first time to try to impose a ceasefire.
Although many Druze villages in Suwaida Province have been restored by government forces, the city of Sweden, has been home to more than 70,000 people, is still under the full control of the Druze.
Before we left the hospital, we found Hala Al -Khatib, who is eight -year -old sitting on a seat with her aunt.
Hala stained with blood and bandages. It seems that she lost the eye.
She told us that the gunmen came and shot her in her head, who were hiding in a wardrobe in her home.
She does not know that, but my father, Hala, died.
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2025-07-22 19:02:00