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Following their warning to Palestinian officials regarding actions towards settlements populated by a minority religion in southern Syria, Israel conducted an strike close to Syria’s political house on Friday.
Following a number of violent contacts between pro-government forces and Druze majority fighters near Damascus, which left many people injured and casual. After religious clashes resulted in the deaths of 102 people, Syria’s Druze religious leader has condemned a “genocidal strategy” against his neighborhood.
Israel has warned the fresh forces in Syria to safeguard the Druze minority, with defense minister Israel Katz claiming that his nation could then act” with considerable force.” The Islamists in Syria, which ousted Bashar al-Assad in December, are in severe trouble due to the violence.
The attack on Friday, which was the second Israeli attack on Syria this week, targeted a neighborhood close to the presidential palace, presumably sending a sharp message to Syria’s fresh Islamist leadership, which is generally led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
The Druze religious leader, Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri, on Thursday harshly condemned the Syrian government for what he called an “unjustified murderous assault” on their community.
Without providing further details, the Israeli military claimed that their fighter jet targeted an location close to President Hussein al-Sharaa’s Palace in Damascus.
Arab pro-government media reported that the attack struck a hills overlooking Damascus close to the Women’s Palace.
A Druze cleric’s acoustic recording that was posted on social media and criticized Islam’s Prophet Muhammad sparked a conflict that erupted at nightfall on Monday. But, Marwan Kiwan, a priest, denied being responsible for the contentious music in a social media movie.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported 56 mortality in Sahnaya and Jaramana, including native soldiers and security forces, while Syria’s data department confirmed 11 security officers murders in two separate incidents.
About one million people worldwide are members of the Syrian religious community, which first developed as an offshoot of Ismailism in Shiite Islam in the 10th century, with the majority of them residing in Syria, mainly in Sweida province and suburbs of Damascus.
Lebanon and Israel divide the remaining Druze community, including the Golan Heights, which Israel annexed in 1981 after capturing it from Syria during the 1967 Mideast War.
