Bahrain’s main opposition bloc, al-Wefaq, said in a statement on Saturday that regime forces have attacked over 50 houses in Sitra’s Mahaze in the past four days.
Al-Wefaq said masked men have attacked civilian houses in the early hours of the day when all family members were asleep, causing panic among the women and children. According to al-Wefaq, the attacks were carried out without government license.
The statement added that security forces have laid siege to the entire neighborhood and blocked all roads leading to it before storming homes violently. The report also contains the number of people arrested in the attacks.
In July, Sayed Hadi al-Mousawi, the head of al-Wefaq’s Department of Human Rights and Civil Liberties, said regime forces had attacked over 311 homes across the country during a two-month period.
Bahrain, which is home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, has been the scene of anti-regime protests since February 2011 and scores of people have been killed and hundreds more injured in the regime crackdown.
On October 30, the Manama regime imposed a ban on all public gatherings across the country.
The protesters, however, say they will continue holding demonstrations against the Al Khalifa regime until their demands for the establishment of a democratically elected government and an end to rights violations are met.
