Israel has attacked goals near the Syrian Presidential Palace in Damascus. Fighter planes had hit the area around the palace, the Israeli army said on Friday. “This is a clear message to the Syrian regime. We will not allow troops to be sent south of Damascus or that the Drianian community is threatened,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Israel Katz.
The Druses are a religious minority whose members mainly live in Syria, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. In Israel, many Druses voluntarily serve in the army – the Jewish state sees it as an ally.
More than a hundred dead within two days
In the night of Tuesday, fighting between government forces and Drusian hunters started in a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus after activists, according to activists, was published in online networks, “attributed to a Druze” audio recording. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than a hundred people were killed within two days.
The religious leader of the Syrian Druses spoke on Thursday about a “nurse campaign”. This is “not to be justified by anything,” said Scheich Hikamt Al-Hidschri. He shouted “international armed forces” to intervene to “retain peace and prevent the progress of these crimes”.
Katz threatened with “considerable violence”
About 700,000 Druses live in Syria. The religious minority, which emerged from Islam, accounts for around three percent of the Syrian population. The new Syrian leadership has repeatedly assured that he wants to protect the minorities in the country. Transitional chairman Ahmed al-Sharaa has been moderated by his Islamist HTS militia since the fall of the old ruler Bashar al-Assad in December. In March there were slaughtering among citizens, mainly by members of the religious minority of the Alawites.
Source: Krone
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