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Israel says that his fighter jets beside the presidential palace in the capital of Syria, Damascus, have bombed, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to protect the Druzen religious minority after days of deadly sectarian violence.
Netanyahu said that the strike “was a clear message to the Syrian regime” that Israel “would not allow the use of troops south of Damascus or any threat to the Druze community”.
There was no immediate response from the Syrian government.
However, it rejected “foreign intervention” when Israel performed strikes south of Damascus on Wednesday during collisions between Druze Gunmen, Safety forces and Allied Sunni Islamic fighters.
The spiritual leader of Syria’s Druze, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, has condemned the violence as an “unjustified genocidal campaign” against his community and called for intervention by “international forces to retain peace”.
The Syrian government has said that it has used security forces to carry out areas to combat “outlaw groups” that she has accused of encouraging the collisions.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad Al-Shaibani has also warned that “every call for external intervention, under some pretext or slogan, only leads to further deterioration and division”.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Sohr), a monitoring group, based in the VK, were killed at least 102 people this week in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, a city in the southern edge of Damascus, the mainly Druzen suburb of Jaramana and the southern province of Suweida.
It says that this includes 10 Druze burgers and 21 Druze hunters, as well as another 35 Druze hunters who were shot in a “ambush” by security forces while traveling from Suwida to Damascus on Wednesday. Thirty members of the General Security Service and Allied hunters were also killed, says it.
The violence broke out in Jaramana on Monday evening after an audio clip from a man who insulted the prophet Mohammed, writhed on social media and angry Sunni Muslims. It was attributed to a Druze -Spiritual, but he denied any responsibility. The Ministry of the Interior also said that a preliminary investigation had made him clear.
The Druzen belief is a spur of the Shia -Islam with its own unique identity and beliefs. Half of his about a million followers live in Syria, where they make up about 3% of the population, while there are smaller communities in Lebanon, Israel and the occupied Golan Heights.
The transition President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has promised to protect the many religious and ethnic minorities of the country since his Sunni Islamic group led the rebel offensive that the regime of Bashar al-Assad was destroying civil war in December.
The massive murders of hundreds of citizens from Assad’s Minority Alawite -sekt in the western coastal region in March, during collisions between the new security forces and Assad -Loyalists, paved fears among minority communities.
In February, the Israeli Prime Minister warned that he would “not tolerate any threat to the Druze community in South Syria” of the new security forces of the country.
Netanyahu also demanded the full demilitarization of Suweida and two other southern provinces, and said that Israel Sharaa’s Sunni Islamic group, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), saw as a threat. HTS is a former al-Qaeda branch that is still designated as a terrorist organization by the UN, the US, the EU and the UK.
The Israeli army has already performed hundreds of strikes in Syria over the past four months to destroy the country’s military assets. It also sent troops in non-monitoring-demilitarized buffer zone between the Golan Heights and Syria occupied by Israel, as well as various adjacent areas and the top of Mount Hmon.
