RootsThe Israeli military attacked the Syrian Ministry of Defense and government forces in southern Syria, as Suvida mainly continued to be a deadly communal battle in the Drews province.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that its army was “working to save our drama brothers and end the gang of governance”. The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned Israel’s “trusted aggression”.
The Syrian Interior Ministry and a Druz leader said that a ceasefire was agreed on Wednesday night. But another druz leader rejected it.
More than 300 people have been reported killed in Suveda since Sunday, when clashes arose between the Drews militia and the Bedouin tribes.
The Israeli army on Monday started strikes by the Syrian security forces and their weapons when they were first deployed in Suvida city, as Sunni Islamist-led rebels overthrown President Bashar al-Assad in December.
Minority groups, including drews – whose religion is a crime with Shia Islam’s own unique identity and beliefs – interim President Ahmed Al -Shara and his government suspects that despite the vows to protect them.
In the last eight months, many outbreaks of deadly communal violence have been extended to their fear, including one in May, including dozens of people allegedly killed in clashes between Damascus and Suveda in Damascus and Suveda.
In view of that fight, the government arrived on an agreement with Drews militia to appoint local security forces in Suveda province from her ranks.
Netanyahu has said that he is committed to prevent damage to the dreus in Syria as he has deep relations for people living in Israeli and Israeli Golan heights.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katj wrote on X on Wednesday afternoon that “the warning in Damascus” ended and that the Israeli army “would continue to work strictly in Suveda, until they do not completely move back to destroy the forces attacking the drinks”.
He later posted that “painful explosion has started” over showing a video clip. A TV presenter is being forced to dive into the air under a desk live because an Israeli missile hit the entrance near the Syrian Defense Ministry In Umayyad Square, in Central Damascus.
The Israeli army stated that it also hit the Syrian government’s military headquarters in the capital as well as the “military target in the region of the President’s Mahal”.
It was also stated that the strike hit the armored vehicles, which are filled with heavy machine guns and weapons, which are in the way of Suveda, as well as firing posts and arms storage facilities in the southern Syria.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said the strike targeted government institutions and civil facilities in Damascus and Suveda and killed “many innocent civilians”.
“This major attack, which makes the Israeli unit a part of a policy to incite stress, spread chaos and reduce safety and stability in Syria, a clear violation of the United Nations Charter and International Humanist Law,” he said.
The Syrian Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday evening that it had “reached a ceasefire agreement with Drews” as part of the efforts to restore security and stability. It states that the military campaign will end immediately, the police will establish posts in Suveda city, and that the province will be “fully integrated” in the Syrian state.
Sheikh Yasef Jarbo, a Drews leader, confirmed the agreement. But another one who supports Israel’s intervention, Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hajri asked the drew fighters to fight “the total liberation of our province”.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio said he was “very concerned” about violence in the south, and he was talking to Israel and Syria to calm the situation.
The UK-based monitoring group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Sohr), meanwhile, stated that the human situation in Suveda city deteriorated rapidly.
Citing sources, it said that there were clashes in many areas of the city and the tanks attacked the national hospital, causing panic from the score of casualties. He also said that there was a rapid shortage of water and medical supply.
Sohr says that more than 300 people have died in Suveda province since Sunday.
They include 69 Drews Fighters and 40 citizens, out of which 27 were briefly killed by the Interior Ministry and Ministry of Defense forces, according to the group. At least 165 members of government forces and 18 Bedouin tribal fighters have also been killed in clashes, while 10 members of government forces have been killed in Israeli attacks.
The BBC is not able to verify the casualty data of SOHR.
RootsThe fight between the Bedouin tribes and the Drews Milicia in Suveda is said to have jumped from the kidnapping of a draus merchant on the highway of Damascus last Friday.
On Sunday, the armed draus fighters allegedly surrounded and later seized a neighborhood in Suvida city which is inhabited by Bedouin. The clashes soon spread to other parts of Suveda province, in which the tribes allegedly started attacking nearby drews towns and villages.
The Syrian internal ministry later announced that its force and people of the Ministry of Defense would intervene and order, saying that “dangerous growth comes to light of the absence of relevant official institutions”.
There was a short period of calm on Sunday night before the fighting started, local activists reported that drains in the west of the city were attacked with drones and mortars as government forces were posted nearby.
That afternoon, the Israeli army stated that it had stuck several Syrian government tanks in Suveda, which was aimed at stopping the army moving towards Suveda city.
On Tuesday morning, drew spiritual leaders said they had agreed to allow government forces to enter Suveda province to end bloodshed. But Sheikh Hajri urged the Drews to protest, in which the government accused the city of violating a ceasefire by bombing the city.
Government forces continued the fight as soon as they entered the city. The Defense Minister announced a ceasefire and said that they would only set fire if they would be attacked, but witnesses stated that they joined the Bedouin fighters in attacking drains fighters and citizens.
That afternoon, Netanyahu and Katz ordered the Israeli army to attack government forces and weapons once again in Suveda. They said they were working to prevent the damage from damaging and “to ensure demonetisation” of areas near the Israeli border “.
Earlier this year, the Prime Minister of Israel demanded complete demonetisation of Suveda and two other southern provinces. He said that Israel saw the Sunni Islamist group of President Shara, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a threat. HTS is a pre-al-Qaeda affiliated which is still nominated by the United Nations and the UK as a terrorist organization, but now not by the US.
The Israeli army has carried out hundreds of attacks in Syria to destroy the country’s military property since the collapse of Assad rule.
And it has sent soldiers between the United Nations-monitored demilitized buffer zones and sent to Syria as well as many surrounding areas and Mount Herman’s peaks.
