Jableh

From March 6 to 11, 2025, Jableh and its surrounding countryside were subjected to a sustained campaign of killings, displacement, and destruction targeting its Alawite inhabitants. The ancient port city, whose stone streets and Ottoman-era buildings had drawn visitors from across the region for generations, became one of the focal points of the March massacres. Al-Amara neighbourhood bore the worst of it. In a single day of coordinated attacks, 65 civilians were killed as armed factions moved methodically through its alleys and apartment blocks. Survivors described screams that went unanswered, neighbours shot in stairwells, bodies left in the street for hours while families stayed barricaded indoors. Armed groups also raided local hospitals and clinics, stealing medical equipment and burning supplies stockpiled for the displaced. The wounded had nowhere to go. In the countryside around Jableh, villages already emptied by flight were looted and in some cases burned. Thousands of families abandoned everything — homes, livelihoods, their dead — and fled toward the Lattakia mountains and toward Russian military outposts, the only places offering any physical safety. The total martyr count across the Jableh area reached an estimated 650.