Syria’s Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Hind Kabawat, speaking from outside Suwayda while accompanying a major aid convoy with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), addressed the media as efforts to deliver humanitarian assistance remain blocked by Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri and the Suwayda Military Council (SMC). “Let me be very clear: the people of Suwayda are our people—they are our children, our families,” said Minister Kabawat. “And we are deeply disheartened to be standing here, unable to enter and help them.”