Israel attacks Syrian military amid deadly clashes between Druze and Bedouin clans | Syria

The Israeli army said that the government forces and Bedouin tribes had made military tanks in Southern Syria, where they clashed with Draze militias on the last rise in the struggle for stability after a 13 -year civil war.

In the war between local militias and clans in Sweida, Syria, dozens of people were killed. The state security forces sent to restore the order on Monday also clashed with local armed groups.

Syria’s internal ministry said that more than 30 people were killed and about 100 people were injured. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory, a UK -based war monitor, reported at least 99 dead, including two children, two women and 14 members of the security forces.

As violence increased, Israel, who had attacked Syria in the defense that Draze was defended before, said that he shot a few tanks in the region as a “warning” to Damascus.

The observatory said that the clashes in Syria were initially exploded between Duze and Sunni Bedouin clans.

Syrian Interior Ministry spokesman Nouleddine Al-Baba said that government forces entered Sweida early on Monday.

Al-Ohbariya TV, operated by the state, said, “Some conflicts have occurred with illegal armed groups, but our forces are doing their best to prevent any civilian losses.”

Al-Baba told Associated Press, “conflicts are not basically sectarian sects”.

“The real conflict is not between the state and bandits and criminals, between the state and any Syrian community,” he said. “On the contrary, the state sees the Drze community in Sweida as a partner in advanced the national unity project.”

Bassem Fakhr, a spokesman for the Dignity Men of Dignity Movement, one of the biggest droulet fractions in Sweida, said that AFP talks continued among the important and general security representatives of the city of Sweida. [forces] and the Ministry of Defense to reach a solution ”.

Draze religious officials called on the ceasefire in the region, saying that they were not against the Syrian central government on Monday evening.

However, Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri, one of the three drill spiritual leaders in Sweida, said that the general security forces “rejected the entrance” and “international protection” demanding “entry”.

Rami Abdurrahman, who chaired the observatory, said that he started a drouled vegetable seller with the kidnapping and robbery of a Drazy vegetable seller and caused them to be abducted for taste by members of a Bedouin tribe who founded a checkpoint of the conflict.

Syrian Ministry of Interior described it as a dangerous rise in the absence of the relevant official institutions that led to the exacerbation of chaos, the deterioration of the security situation and the inability of the local society to involve the situation ”.

Najat Rochdi, the UN Special Ambassador of Syria, expressed a “deep concern ve in violence and called on the government and local groups to örmek taking urgent steps to protect civilians, to regain calm and prevent them from provoking”.

The authority said that the clashes are urgent need for real inclusion, trust and meaningful dialogue to advance a reliable and inclusive political transition in Syria ”.

Israel, a population of Duze, reported that he had hit several tanks going to Sweida on Monday.

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In December, the Israeli forces seized a boss -free buffer zone on the Syrian territory on the Golan Hills border and launched hundreds of air strikes in military areas in Syria.

Although many drouys in Syria say that they do not want to intervene in Israel, the fractions from the Draze Minority, former President Bashar al -Assad, suspects new officials in Damascus after escaping from the country during the rebellious attack of the Sunni Islamist groups. Several times, Draze groups clashed with security forces from the new government or allied groups.

In May, the Israeli forces hit a place seen as a warning to Syrian temporary President Ahmad al-Sharaa near the presidential palace in Damascus. The strike came to the stage after he was killed by the pro -government armed men in the town and Drze Majority Damascus suburbs to fight between Jaramana suburb.

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called “all countries and organizations to respect the authority of the Syrian Arab Republic and to avoid supporting any separatist rebel movement”. In a statement, the Syrians called to örmek to stop violence actions, to surrender illegal weapons and to prevent those who want to dismantle the Syrian social texture and to prevent those who want to doom and division ”.

With Associated Press and Agency France-Presse