Minibus bombing in Jaramana leaves two dead

Shopkeeper Samer Abbas was working just meters away when the force of the explosion sent shrapnel tearing into his storefront. The sound, he described, was entirely unnatural, prompting a frantic search for his son who had been sitting outside. His relief came only after hearing his son’s voice, a small mercy in an otherwise chaotic scene of carnage.

At the Mujtahid Hospital, Bassel Imad waited for updates on his cousin, Safouh, who had been driving the targeted vehicle when the bomb detonated. Imad described the attack as a sadistic act against a narrow, bustling street filled with vendors and civilians. The bombing arrives amid heightened tensions for the Druze community, which has previously faced deadly violence, including a mass killing in Sweida province last July that resulted in over 1,700 deaths. A United Nations investigation into that earlier atrocity suggested that government forces, tribal fighters, and local armed groups may have committed war crimes during the conflict.