Over 1,500 Alawite civilians were executed by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists and affiliated gunmen in a series of massacres starting on 7 March.

Germany is pledging an additional €300 million ($326 million) in aid for Syrians through the UN and select organizations, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced on 17 March.

More than half of the funds provided will go towards aiding the people in Syria and will be distributed through NGOs and UN agencies, bypassing the country’s transitional government, Baerbock said at a press conference ahead of an EU-led donor conference in Brussels.

The funding will be used to provide food, health services, emergency shelters, and protective measures for the particularly vulnerable, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkiye will also receive the support, she went on to say.

Baerbock repeated the need for an inclusive political process to ensure a peaceful future for Syria.

“As Europeans, we stand together for the people of Syria, for a free and peaceful Syria,” she declared.

Germany’s stepped-up aid for the Syrian government, led by former Al-Qaeda in Iraq commander Ahmad al-Sharaa (who went by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani), comes in the wake of its genocidal violence targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority.

On 7 March, thousands of armed men affiliated with Sharaa’s security forces descended on villages and towns in the Syrian coastal regions, going door to door and massacring Alawites, including, at times, entire families. The armed forces looted homes of cash and gold before lighting them on fire.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), 1,557 Alawite civilians were killed and executed by members of Syria’s Ministries of Interior and Defense and auxiliary forces.

The Cradle Media report