DAMASCUS/SWEIDA — Residents reported calm in southern Syria's Sweida on Sunday after interior authorities said the previous night that Bedouin tribal fighters have withdrawn from the city.

The United Nations migration agency said the number of people displaced by the violence has risen to more than 128,000.

On Sunday morning, residents reported no sound of gunfire in the city after the interior ministry announced late on Saturday that Bedouin tribal fighters had left.

Kenan Azzam, a dentist, described the situation on Sunday morning as "a tense calm" but told Reuters that residents were still struggling with a lack of water and electricity.

"The hospitals are a disaster and out of service, and there are still so many dead and wounded," he said.

Interior authorities spokesperson Noureddin al-Baba said in a televised statement: "After intensive efforts … and following the deployment of internal security forces in northern and western Sweida, all tribal fighters have been evacuated from the city and the clashes have ceased inside its neighborhoods."

Bedouin fighters also announced they had withdrawn from Sweida, The Associated Press reported.

Earlier on Saturday, a three-phase ceasefire agreement, brokered by the United States, Turkiye, Jordan, and other regional actors to halt the violence in Sweida since July 13, took effect.

Hours later, fierce fighting erupted in Sweida between Druze armed groups and Bedouin tribal fighters.

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, or SOHR, Druze fighters launched a counteroffensive late on Saturday, reclaiming Sweida city after hours of clashes.

Tribal forces, withdrawing from the city, responded with mortar attacks that caused material damage and possible civilian injuries, said the SOHR.

In a statement released earlier on Saturday evening, Syria's Druze spiritual leadership accused Bedouin tribal militias of violating the newly reached ceasefire in southern Sweida Province and committing "crimes that shame all humanity".

The SOHR said Sweida is facing a looming humanitarian catastrophe, citing widespread infrastructure damage, medical supply shortages, and a complete collapse of the main hospital.

The clashes in Sweida, which prompted fears of a broader regional escalation, started after armed members of a Bedouin tribe in the countryside of Sweida, a predominantly Druze area, reportedly assaulted and robbed a young Druze man near the town of al-Masmiyah, along the Damascus-Sweida highway.

The brutal attack sparked retaliatory kidnappings, spiraling into full-scale clashes between local Druze fighters, government troops, and Bedouin militias.

The SOHR gave an updated toll on Sunday of more than 1,000 killed in the violence.