Israel Syrian bombs

DAMASCUS:

Israel bombed the Syrian army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after the government’s warning led by the Islamic government to leave the country’s minority only, as authorities announced the ceasefire in the southern heart of the community.

Syria’s government forces entered the Sweida city of the majority-Druze on Tuesday, with the declared goal of overseeing a ceasefire that agreed with Druze Community leaders after days of battle with local tribes of Beduen.

However, witnesses said that government forces were united with Bedouin to attack fighters and citizens of Druze in a bloody dependence on the city.

The Syrian War Monitor Observatory said that violence in Sweida province since Sunday had left more than 300 dead people, including government forces, local fighters and 27 civilians who were killed in “summary executions … by members of the Ministers”. The Syrian Presidency pledged to investigate the “sad acts” in Sweida and to punish “all those who proved to be involved”.

On Wednesday, state media said a new ceasefire had been agreed, announcing the “security control points development” in Sweida. A previous truce that said on Tuesday seemed to have had little effect on the ground.

The battles were the most serious outbreak of violence in Syria, as government forces fought Druze fighters in Sweida province and near Damascus in April and May, leaving more than 100 dead people.

Authorities under the leadership of the Islamic had stretched relations with the patchwork of Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities since overturning the long-term leader Bashar al-Assad in December.

Israel, which has its own Druze community, has been presented as a defender of the team, although some analysts say it is a pretext to pursue its own military aim to maintain the forces of the Syrian government so far from their common borders as possible.