section_path: Responses/Supranational
section_name: Supranational
paragraph_text: Supranational
  
  According to Thameen Al-Kheetan, the spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "entire families" have been killed, with Alawites targeted, in particular. The Office reported receiving numerous accounts of large-scale killings in Alawite-majority towns and villages, where entire households—including women, children, and individuals not involved in the fighting—were massacred. Witnesses described assailants raiding homes and questioning residents whether they were Alawite or Sunni, deciding whether to kill or spare them based on their Alawite or Sunni identity. Some accounts also spoke of men being shot in front of their families.