Syria: Live switching show force of Israel’s attack on Damascus (video)

Because of her approach to the minority of the Drusen in southern Syria, Israel has expanded his attacks on the Syrian government troops. Among other things, a “military goal” was shot at in the Zone of the Presidential Palace in Damascus on Wednesday, the Israeli army said. The United States and the Federal Government commented. After the Syrian army intervened in a conflict between Drusen and Bedouins in southern Syria, activists have already counted more than 300 deaths.

The Israeli army said that it continued her attacks on military facilities “of the Syrian regime”. Eyewitnesses told the AFP news agency that they had heard an explosion in part of the building complex that Syria’s temporary president Ahmed al-Sharaa used for the reception of visitors. Syrian state television reported two deaths in the attack in Damascus.

Previously, Israel had already attacked the headquarters of the Syrian army in the capital of Damascus due to the attack on the minority of the Drusen in southern Syria. According to the Syrian Ministry of Health, a person was killed and 18 more injured. Part of the building that borders on the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense was destroyed, as AFP correspondents reported. On Sunday, fights between Drusen and Sunni Bedouins broke out in the southern Syrian province of Suwaida. On Monday, the Islamist government in Damascus sent soldiers to the region. On Tuesday, the government troops moved to the provincial capital of the same name, which was previously held by Drusian fights.

The Syrian government announced a new ceasefire on Wednesday after a fire break had breaked the previous day. The new agreement for Suwaida includes the “establishment of security checkpoints in the city”, reported the state news agency Sana, citing a source in the Interior Ministry.

Sheikh Jussef Al-Jharbuh, one of the three most important religious leaders of the Syrian Drusen, read the ten points of the ceasefire agreement on state television. Accordingly, “the complete integration of the province” Suwaida in “The Syrian State” is planned. Israel demands the withdrawal of the Syrian government troops from the Drusen region near the border with Israel. Since Monday, it has been conflicting with air strikes in government troops in the province of Suwaida. On Wednesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz Syria threatened to attack “with all hardness” if Damascus should not call back his soldiers.

The Israeli army announced that they will send further soldiers to the ceasefire line between the occupied Golan heights and the territory controlled by Syria. Among other things, a division from the Gaza Strip should be moved there, said a army spokesman. Israel appears as a protective power of the Drusen. Relatives of the religious minority live not only in Syria – especially in the province of Suwaida – but also in other countries, including Israel. There they also serve in the army, unlike other Arab Israelis.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the fights in Suwaida have been killed in the fights in the province of Suwaida since Sunday. According to the observation center based in Great Britain, there were 109 Drusen, including 40 civilians. 27 of these civilians were “executed” by government troops. In addition, 18 Bedouin fighters and 165 government forces were killed, ten of them in Israeli attacks.

The observation center receives its information from a network of activists on site. Your information can often not be checked independently.

Internationally, the escalating conflict triggers concern. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “very concerned” about the conflict between Syria and Israel and demanded an end to the fights. After talks with the Israeli and Syrian government, however, he expressed the hope that “we are on the way to a real de -escalation”. He was confident that “we will see real progress in the next few hours”. A spokesman for the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin said Berlin was following the outbreak of violence in Suwaida “with great concern”. Abuses to the civilian population would have to be examined, punished and informed.

The EU sharply condemned the alleged violence against civilians and at the same time called “all external actors to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria” with a view to Israel’s attacks in Syria. In turn, the Syrian transitional government must “de -escalate” and “ensure the persecution of all crimes”.

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs described Israel’s attacks in Damascus as “act of sabotage against Syria’s efforts for peace, stability and security”. Syria’s temporary president Ahmed al-Sharaa announced on Wednesday penalties for those who had assassinated attacks on residents of Suwaida. He condemned the “hideous deeds”.

Since the fall of the long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad in December in December, concern for the rights and security of minorities in Syria has increased. Already in April and May there were clashes in Suwaida and near Damascus between government troops and drusian fighters, in which more than a hundred people had been killed. In March, more than 1,700 people were killed in massacres in the regions in western Syria, which were mainly inhabited by the Alawites.