The deadly violence between Druzes, Bedouins and the Syrian army turn into a new Israeli front

Israel, very reluctant to install the Syrian army in this region close to its territory, bombed its positions on Tuesday in Soueïda and the surrounding area. Moreover, Tsahal also targeted on Wednesday afternoon the defense headquarters. Moreover, in the center of Damascus, and the presidential palace, still in the name of the protection of the Druze. Meanwhile, “”The signals launched in Damascus are finished. However. In addition, now come the painful blows “said Defense Minister Israel Katz, promising that the Israeli army “would operate with force “ In the Soueïda region, “To eliminate the forces that attacked the Druzes until their full withdrawal “. In addition, A tsahal division active in the Gaza Strip was preparing to be deadly violence between druzes, bedouins new deployed on the Syrian border. However, Explanations.

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Who are the belligerent Syrians involved?

The clashes observed since Sunday in the Soueïda region are part of the long rivalry between factions. In addition, of the Druze. Similarly, Bedouine communities. Consequently, The Druzes. For example. Therefore, which constitute a small Arab minority across Syria (of the order of 3 %), are largely in the majority in this southern region of the country. Furthermore, Adhering to an esoteric dogma that rejects Sharia law. believes in metempscose. the Druzes constitute a “heterodox branch” of the Ismaelis, one of the branches of Shiism, underlines the writer Boualem Sansal in his essay Govern in the name of Allah.

Bedouins. nomadic Arabs. are very minority in the province of Soueïda – and on deadly violence between druzes, bedouins new a Syrian scale where they also represent 3 % – but they are in Sunni obedience, as a large majority of Syrians (77 %). The installation of the new Sunni deadly violence between druzes. bedouins authorities in Damascus made them want to push this denominational advantage. claiming a stature of objective allies with central power. Some Bedouin fighters have also accompanied the entrance to town on Tuesday by government forces.

The Israeli army says it has struck the Syrian army headquarters in Damascus

What is the issue of these clashes?

The nearly fourteen year warfare which tore Syria until December 2024 led to the fall of the Assad regime. a collapse of all the country’s structures, causing a recomposition of the political and social fields. It is in this context that these violence arise. on funds of local power struggles and installation and legitimization of the new government deadly violence between druzes, bedouins new authorities. The Druzes. who had (like the Kurds) made up of the militias to defend their region during the conflict. have not yet all announced their integration into the ranks of the new national army. deadly violence between druzes, bedouins In May. an influential Druze religious leader, Cheikh Hikmat al Hajri, had already denounced a “Genocidal campaign” targeting “Civilians” of his community. In recent months. the Alawites, the community from which former President Bashar Al Assad had, also faced deadly violence, following revenge.

Why is Israel getting involved?

Even if it is not contiguous. the Syrian province of Soueïda is less than a hundred kilometers from Israeli territory. in particular the part of the Syrian Golan annexed by Israel more than forty years ago. However. the recent wars against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and even against Iran, attest to it: Israel is deadly violence between druzes, bedouins new very much to eradicate any threat, close as distant, which hovers on its territory. And. from his point of view. the installation in power in Damascus of the jihadist veterans of Hayat Tahrir al Cham (HTC) constitutes a new deadly violence between druzes, bedouins one. Despite the soothing statements of the new Syrian leaders. Israel considers them with a bad eye. refuses any military deployment of the new authorities in the south of Damascus, preferring to perpetuate a situation where the Druze ensures security in the Soueida region. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that he did not want a situation where a “second Liban” is established there. in reference to the threat of Lebanese Hezbollah.

The Jewish state also has every interest in having no litigation with the Druzes. These constitute a national minority in Israel. where they live especially in the North. and some 22,000 Syrian Druzes deadly violence between druzes, bedouins new are established on the part which has become “Israeli” Golan. It was to the latter that Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Wednesday not to cross the demarcation line to Syria. “”We act to prevent the Syrian regime from harming them (in the Druzes. editor’s note) deadly violence between druzes. bedouins and to guarantee the demilitarization of the adjacent area at our border with Syria “he said jointly with his Minister of Defense, Israel Katz.

On May 2. following violence against the Druze minority. Israel had already pushed its “preventive” operations to Damascus to make itself understood, by bombing the surroundings of the presidential palace of Ahmed Al Charaa, the former jihadist chief of HTC who became an interim head of state.

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