Israel and Syria have reached an agreement on the ceasefire, the American envoy to Turkey Tom Barrack, on Friday after days of intensive fighting in the other, which left more than 300 people dead.
Violence escalated when Israel began air strikes on the Syrian capital of Damascus and focused on the Syrian regime forces in the south and insisted on them. Israel said his actions were aimed at protecting the Community of the other, small but influential minorities with populations in Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
Despite the notification of the ceasefire, the clashes were reportedly still in the northern and western parts of the province of Sweid, according to the inhabitants and Ryan Mazza, the head of the independent intelligence outlet Sweida24.
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It is estimated that 700,000 other people live in Syria and about 150,000 in Israel. In Israel, many seconds historically felt a strong sense of loyalty to the state and was considered to be part of the “blood contract” with their Jewish neighbors, which date back to 1948.
Although some of them now feel like citizens of “second -class”, most continue to support the state and participate in military services.
Despite recent demands on the protection of the other in Suway, Israel has a long -term formula of military aggression against Syria. Even before the last violence and even after the removal of Bashar Al-Assad after the 14-year civil war, Israel performed hundreds of strikes.
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Currently, it occupies about 400 square kilometers (155 square miles) of Syrian territory, with the exception of Western Golan Heights, which has been held since 1967.
“It’s pure opportunism,” said Alon Pinkas, former Israeli ambassador and Consul General in New York, in an interview with Al Jazeera.
Pinkas rejected Israeli intentions as honest and added, “Of course it is nice to pretend to help our other friends, in the same way we have never helped our other friends, the Kurds.”
As Al Jazeera states, Pinkas pointed out several of the latest strikes, from the attempt by Prime Minister Netanyahu to bear a war leader and delay his corruption court, to maintaining the “clan” that Israel has successfully changed the region in the last 21 months.
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“In the end, he does not want to see united Syria with a strong central government controlled by Al-Sharaa,” Pinkas said. “He wants a weak central government dealing with areas dominated by Kurds (north) and the second and Bedouin in the south.”
“In principle, if Syria remains continuous, Israel can do what he wants in his south,” he added, as Al Jazeera says.
Previously, in the paper on X, Netanyahu wrote: “My brothers, other citizens of Israel, Suit situation, situation in southwestern Syria, is very serious. IDF works, Air Force work, other forces work.
“And now I have one request: You are Israel citizens. Do not exceed the boundary. You endanger your lives; you can be killed, you could be kidnapped and you can withstand your IDF. That’s why I ask you – again to contact your homes, let IDF work,” he added.
What is so special about the other community?
The Religious Sect of the other, which has now caught up in the increase in retaliation in Syria, was created about 1,000 years ago as a detached movement from Ismailism, in itself an industry in the Shiite Islam. Syria of the other has a long tradition of navigation in their course to survive in the middle of changing power in the country.
Historically, they played an important role in the rebellion against the Ottoman and French colonial rulers in the fight for the formation of a modern Syrian state.
During his reign, Bashar al-Assad adequately granted the kind of peace of autonomy because they tried to stay outside the front line of Syria conflicts. The other men were exempt from compulsory military service and instead created local defensive units composed of farmers and workers to protect their own regions.
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However, the fall of the Syrian Autocrat Bashara Al-Assad in December was largely welcomed by the species community. However, opinions quickly divided over the leadership of the interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, so that the group was politically divided.
We are working on the rescue of our second brothers and to remove the gangs of the regime.
The recent wave of violence has deepened skepticism among others against the new leadership of Syria and disrupted the hope of peaceful coexistence.
(With the entry from agencies)
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