{"id":761,"date":"2018-09-19T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:52:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T21:00:00","slug":"761","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stj-sy.org\/en\/761\/","title":{"rendered":"Idlib: Storming the Local Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Local council of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%A7%E2%80%AD\/@31.8594675,35.4995274,13z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x151ccc61e6ff8567:0x811428a4685668bb!8m2!3d31.8611058!4d35.4617583\">Ariha<\/a> town, filed a lawsuit against Suqour al-Sham militants being raided by them on Monday Sep. 17, 2018 because of an earlier misunderstanding.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An eyewitness<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\"><sup><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> testified to STJ on Sep. 18, 2018:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;\"><strong>&quot;Members of the council were meeting humanitarian organizations delegates when an armed man called M.H accompanied by four other heavily armed men, stormed the building at 1:00 pm. They asked the attendants to leave in order to shut down the and when we refused the insulted us and drew their guns and forced us out.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The militants stayed about an hour in the council&rsquo;s building during which they seized equipment, tore some printings and confiscated the official stamp seal. A dignitary was called to solve the problem, but the aggressor M.H overreacted and left with the militants without giving the stamp seal back, the eyewitness added<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In turn, the legal office of the local council filed a lawsuit against M.H, and the council resumed its work waiting the stamp seal to be restored.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;\"><strong>It is an individual assault from M.H side, known as Abu al-Muthanna, whose relatives went to the council, under his mediation, to win one of the small projects it offers, but they couldn&rsquo;t register because of the crowds, however he<\/strong> <strong>thought that it was intentional which led him to <\/strong><strong>storm the council. As the <\/strong>local activists reported<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, M.H had broken into the municipality building and the real state building and seized sums of money.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>STJ had already reported armed aggression and abductions against civilians and medical facilities in Idlib province. <a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\" title=\"\"><sup><strong><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a> His identity concealed for security purposes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ftn2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\" title=\"\">[2]<\/a> &quot;Idlib: Assaulting Medical Personnel Becomes More Frequent&quot;, STJ, June 25, 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">https:\/\/www.stj-sy.org\/en\/view\/610<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&quot;Armed men Kidnap Dr. Khali Agha and Hospitals Suspend Work in Protest&quot;, STJ, Aug. 9, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stj-sy.org\/en\/view\/666\">https:\/\/www.stj-sy.org\/en\/view\/666<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&quot;A Remarkable Increase in Killings and Abductions of Civilians Due to Insecurity- Idlib province&quot;, STJ, July 5, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stj-sy.org\/en\/view\/618\">https:\/\/www.stj-sy.org\/en\/view\/618<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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