Amid ongoing clashes between Druze groups and Bedouins in southern Syria’s Sweida province, Arab tribes declared they would stop drinking coffee until state control is restored across the country.
A tribesman symbolically poured out his coffee, saying, “Until all of Syria, especially Sweida, is under state protection, drinking coffee is forbidden to us.” The coffee ban is a traditional Bedouin practice signaling a call for justice or revenge.
Arab tribes also declared a mobilization, condemning the attacks on Bedouins as genocide and urging the Syrian government not to block fighters heading to Sweida.