Al-Tuweim

The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organisation carried out a massacre in Al-Tuweim, a village in the western Hama countryside, killing 31 people. Among them: 9 children and 4 women. A large number of additional civilians were wounded. Nine children who had been alive that morning — who had eaten breakfast, who had perhaps played in the streets of a village their families had lived in for generations — were killed in a coordinated armed assault. The village sits in the predominantly Alawite areas of western Hama, far from any front line. Its location offered no insulation. The assault was coordinated, organised, and deliberate — not a spillover from elsewhere. The large number of wounded alongside the dead meant Al-Tuweim's suffering did not end with the massacre. Families with injured members in an attacked village, with medical access cut off or compromised, faced watching people they loved suffer without adequate care. The full weight of what March 2025 meant for Alawite communities across Syria is visible in Al-Tuweim.