An Islamic Army offers to exchange some female detainees for a military commander

SOHR received a copy of a footage shows a journalist in an Islamic front with 4 old women and a girl. The journalist said that they were brought them from other factions in order to swap them with a commander of a group in an Islamic faction who was arrested by the pro- regime militiamen in the towns of Nobbol and al- Zahraa, where the journalist said that the regime forces had arrested some fighters of the rebel and Islamic battalions and that they have tried to communicate through negotiations to exchange bodies and detainees between the regime forces and the rebel and Islamic factions.

 

“We have some sisters who are not detainees or Sabaya (women as spoils of war) but they are honorable guests bringing them to swap them for an brother in the factions”, the journalist added.

 

“ We offered this request to whom it may concern from the pro- regime forces in Nobbol and al- Zahraa but they refused it, noting that those sisters existed with us, and that we offered the request through negotiators more than one time but they refused to exchange them for one person who is “Yousef Zaw’ah”, the journalist continued.

 

The journalist confirmed that the factions, which sent the sisters, gave them a deadline of 72 hours in order to exchange them with Yousef Zaw’ah “The military commander in an Islamic army” otherwise the factions will take them back after the expiry of the deadline.

 

 

40 women from the towns of Nobbol and al- Zahraa, which are inhabited by Shia people, have been detained since more than a year. Local resources informed SOHR that negotiations are taking places in order to exchange 6 of them for Yousef Zaw’ah who was arrested a year ago.