Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the other armed groups that have swept Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from power are "sending good messages" of "unity, of inclusiveness" to Syrians, says Geir Pedersen, the UN special envoy for Syria. At a press conference in Geneva, he also adds that Israeli bombardments into Syrian territory need "to stop".
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00:00The realities so far is that the HDS and also the other armed groups have been sending good messages
00:10to the Syrian people. They have been sending messages of unity, of inclusiveness. And
00:19frankly speaking, also, we have seen in Aleppo, and in Hama, we have also seen, you know,
00:27reassuring things on the ground. And then a very troubling development.
00:34We are continuing to see Israeli movements and bombardments into Syrian territory.
00:43This needs to stop.