The Syrian state media have reported new Israeli attacks near the Syrian city by majority Drusa of Sweidathe first attack in the area after the withdrawal of Syrian government forces following the clashes with local fighters.
The Syrian state press agency Sana said that “Israeli employment planes carried out a raid on the outskirts of the city of Sweida”. The Syrian forces had retired from Sweida this morning after bloody clashes with the Druse fighters, accompanied by Israeli attacks and diplomatic pressure for the collection from the area.
Like an unstoppable train, the war to the bitter end conducted by Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu to remain in power, sheltered even by judicial troubles, runs far and wide throughout the Middle East, from Iran to the Mediterraneanattracting convictions and criticisms since half world. And forcing “the friend” Donald Trump and his special envoys to make extraordinary to try to contain the tightening and enlargement of the confetto.
If the attacks on the Catholic Church of Gaza seem to have shaken some European governments from torpor about the underworld in the strip – a Belgian court stops the sending of weapons to IsraelSlovenia prohibits the entry into ministers of the Israeli ultra -decay – the sensational Israeli aerial raids on the centers of military power to Damascus have delivered to the Netanyahu table to repress them by Russia, China, Emirates: all countries that have more or less close relationships, with the Jewish state. The self -proclaimed Syrian president Ahmad Sharaa, who took power last December after being a militia of qaedist inspiration for a long time, accused Israel of “sowing divisions” in the area and of “causing tensions and chaos”.
Just Sharaa, recently no longer considered “terrorist” by the United States, is in contact, through Washington, with Netanyahu. The White House aims to reach the two sides a normalization agreement, which would be unprecedented given the state of belligerentness that has applied between the two countries since their birth as formally independent states about 80 years ago. Israel has been working on the Syrian hills of Golan since 1967 and has annexed them in 1981, with a move recognized only by the first Trump mandate in 2019.
The same American special envoys in the Middle East, from Steve Witkoff to Thomas Barack, have struggled in the last few hours to keep the Israeli military fury in Syria. Yet, the Israeli premier, who had already given order to bomb Damascus in the spring of 2024 (attack on the Iranian consulate), reiterated his intention to continue with his strategy.
And on Syria, where the Israeli army has been working on the Golan and Damascus for eight months, he raises the mail: we will continue to use military vehicles to enforce our red lines: demilitarizing the area south of Damascus, from the heights of the Golan to the Drusa mountain, and protect the brothers of our brothers, the Druse, “said the premier, referring to the increasingly influential Drusa community of the Drusa. Israeli Galilee.
Galilean’s druses serve in the Israeli army and some high Druse officers are at the forefront of Syria. Netanyahu’s war does not stop even in the nearby Lebanon, where even today Israel led air raids against Hezbollah installations in the South. In recent days, an entire family of Syrians, not linked to Hezbollah, was exterminated together with three Lebanese in an Israeli bombing in the Oriental Valley of Bekaa, on the border with Syria. These attacks take place despite the agreement for the ceased the fire, reached between Israel and Hezbollah through the Beirut government, last November. And despite the presence of a “de-Escalation mechanism” formally chaired in Lebanon by high American and French officers.