Dābiq: How did the people of the camp receive
the soldiers of the Islamic State?
Yarmūk: Due to the major propaganda war and
the deceitful media claims, there was great fear
from the Muslims of the camp, as the image
conveyed about the Islamic State was that they
love killing and slaughter and that they kill people
based on suspicions. They even claimed that the
Islamic State would cut off the fingers of those
who smoked. Many other older fabrications were
also spread by the new enemies of the Islamic
State. We witnessed more than one touching
event in the first days of the liberation of the
camp. Once, a Muslim woman came out to us
with her children and requested us to kill her
and not to take her as a slave! Hasbiyallāhu wa
ni’malwakīl! Thereupon we offered her bread and
aid and clarified things to her. After some days,
she returned and defended the Islamic State and
said, “By Allah, I did not see anything but good
from them and what they have brought forth for
the people of the camp within days hasn’t been
provided to us by the factions over years!”
Dābiq: How is the condition now in the camp?
The Yarmūk camp after being
liberated by the Islamic State
Yarmūk: The situation now in the camp is
good, and to Allah belongs all praise. Now the
camp lives in the shade of the Khilāfah. The
food situation improved, first by the grace of
Allah (‘azza wa jall), and second by the Khilāfah
soldiers entering the camp. But this situation
doesn’t suit the Nusayrī regime and its agents
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in the region, so the regime started pounding
the camp with hundreds of explosive barrels and
rockets and inciting some people to support the
shuyūkh of evil to expel the Islamic State from the
camp. They exerted various forms of pressure from
outside and inside. One form of pressure was the
deployment of checkpoints between the regions of
“reconciliation” and the camp as well as blocking
any food supplies for the inhabitants of the camp
and al-Hajar al-Aswad from coming in. They
started arresting any youth who belonged to alHajar al-Aswad or to the camp. As I mentioned to
you before, they also exclusively distributed food
aid to the regions of “reconciliation.” This was
accomplished through the “General Command”
militia, as this militia is loyal to the regime.
Dābiq: Many of the Muslims are hopeful that
the liberation of the camp is a step towards the
liberation of Dimashq. How do you see the
future of the battle against the Nusayrī regime
after the liberation of the camp?
Yarmūk: Our first and fundamental goal is the
liberation of Dimashq and the liberation of the
Yarmūk Camp is the first step for the realization
of this aim. However, the matter is not easy, we ask
Allah to strengthen us so that we liberate Dimashq,
al-Quds, and Rome. But there is a matter that
needs to be mentioned and it is that many of the
factions in the region were found and created for
the protection of regime-controlled Dimashq and
to thwart any of our attempts to enter Dimashq.
The Islamic State waged war against these factions
and uncovered their plans, including those of the
“Guards of Dimashq” 4th Division. The Islamic
State rose to destroy this division and terminate
its leadership, but Allah decreed that the division’s
commander, an individual referred to as “Bayān
Maz’al,” escaped. He now works in one of the
regime intelligence departments. The second
faction that was founded as an alternative to the 4th
Division was Aknāf and they have been destroyed,
by Allah’s grace. The new alternative which has
appeared now is Liwā’ Shām ar-Rasūl and Zahrān
‘Allūsh’s militia and with Allah’s permission their
purge from the region is going on now, as well as
the preparations for the battle of Dimashq.