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The Israeli attacks are involved after the Syrian government and a chief of Druze both said that the truce had been broken.
Israeli forces have launched air strikes on Suwayda in southern Syria, while fighting returned to the city of Druze after the Syrian government after the Syrian government declared a ceasefire.
The Syrian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that armed groups had taken over attacks on Syrian government forces with the support of the Israeli Air Force.
Syria has condemned Israel’s intervention as a violation of international law, while the influential Druze Sheikh Hikmat al-Hajri said in a statement that it was the troops of the Syrian government who violated a truce announced earlier in the day.
Israeli air attacks came after Hikmat al-Hajri urged local fighters to face what he described as a barbaric attack by government forces.
Israel said that its attacks on the Southern Syria Israel Syria are supposed to protect the Druze minority, which it considers potential allies.
In a shared press release on social networks, the Israeli Minister of the Diaspora, Amichai Chikli, said that Israel could not “stay on the move” while the Druze engaged in the fighting.
“We see massacres and insults against the Druze, and we must fight against the terrorism regime in Syria,” said Chikli, saying that it was a “serious mistake” to recognize Syrian president Ahmed Al-Sharaa as a “legitimate leader” of the country.
The fighting between the Bedouin tribes and the local drum combatants would have killed more than 30 people and injured more than 100 since Sunday in Suwayda. The Bedouin and Druze armed factions have a longtime quarrel in Suwayda, with violence that bursts occasionally.
The American envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said Washington was in contact with all the games “to sail towards calm and integration”.
The report of Osama Bin Javaid from Al Jazeera of Damascus said that the situation in Suwayda “also increased, with several Israeli drones and the air strikes they claim are in favor of Druze hunters”.
The Syrian government has declared “full ceasefire”
The latest developments come for hours after the Syrian Minister of Defense Murhaf Abu Qasra declared a truce In an article on social networks, saying: “To all the units operating in the city of Suwayda, we declare a full ceasefire.”
Abu Qasra’s announcement intervened shortly after the ministry deployed Stop the fights Between the Bedouin tribes and the local fighters. Recent fighting has been the first epidemic of fatal violence in the region since fighting between members of the Druze community and security forces killed dozens of people in April and May.
The population of Druze in Syria has around 700,000, Suwayda housing the largest community in the sect. The Druze religious sect is a minority group which comes from the 11th century ramification of a branch of Shiite Islam.
In Syria, the Druze mainly lives in the southern province of Suwayda and certain suburbs of Damascus, mainly in Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya in the south. Since the longtime reversal Syrian sovereign Bashar al-Assad In December, concerns were raised on the rights and security of minorities under the new authorities, which also had trouble restoring security more widely.
In April, hundreds of Allawite civilians have been killed In apparent reprisals after the fight, he broke out between government forces and armed groups loyal to Al-Assad, which belongs to the religious sect of Alawite.
Israel launched Hundreds of air strikes On neighboring Syria since December 2024, on average one every three to four days.
The latest attacks are involved while the government of Netanyahu continues to lead Palestinian war In the Gaza Strip, killing at least 58,479 people since October 2023.
In addition to Gaza and Syria, Israel has also launched attacks on occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen in recent months.
