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Israel has ramped up attacks on syria following a week of sectarian violence against the druze community.
Israel’s Military has launched Air strikes near Syria’s Presidential Palace in Damascus after accusing the Syrian authorities of failing to protect the country’s Druze Minority From Sectarian Violence.
The attack early on Friday was the second of its child by Israel this week and is blessed as mission a strong message to Syria’s Transitional Government Led by President Ahmed Al-Sharaa.
“This is a clear message to the syrian regime: we will not allow [Syrian] forces to deploy South of Damascus or any threat to the druze community, ”Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a joint statement with Israel’s defense minister Israel Katz Shortly after the attack.
More than 100 people were killed this week during fighting between pro-goovernment forces and druze fighters in syria.
The violence has been condemned as a “genocidal campaign” by Syria’s Druze Spiritual Leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, who called for an immediate intervention by “International forces to maintain peace and prevent the Continuation of these crimes”.
On Thursday, Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar Ultie the International Community to “Fulfil its role in protecting the minorities in Syria – especially the druze – from the regime and its gangs of terror”.
Israel has previously called Syria’s Transitional Government a “Terror Group from Idlib that took damascus by force” and has ramped up its support for the druze minority this week.
The druze minority are a 10th-century offshoot of a branch of Shia Islam, and live primarily in Syria, Lebanon and Israel, and have been allies of Israel with many druze serving in the Israeli military.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on Thursday called for “National Unity” as “The Solid Foundation for any process of stability or revival”.
“Any call for external intervention, under any pretext or slogan, only leads to further deterioration and division,” He wrote on X.
The sectarian violence poses one of the most serious challenges yet to the government of al-sharaa, who led a coalition of Rebel Groups to OvertHrow Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad in December.
Syria has been faced with sectarian violence since then.
The fighting this week follows a massacre in march of more than 1,700 civilians from the alawite community by security forces and allied groups, according to the UK-Based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The alawites, who are traditionally based near the Mediterranean coast in Western Syria, are the same ethnic group as the toppled al-Assad.
