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US says ‘specific steps’ agreed to end Syria violence after Israeli strikes hit Damascus

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Israel’s army hit the Syrian Defense Ministry in Damascus in Southern Syria on Wednesday, because the Fourth War in Drze, mostly in Suweida, continued on the fourth day.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said their forces “to save our Drze brothers and to eliminate the gangs of the regime.” The Syrian Foreign Ministry accused Israel of “treacherous aggression”.

It has been reported that more than 300 people have been killed since Sunday, the clashes between Draze Militias and Bedouin tribes exploded.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was “very anxious” about violence in the South, but believes it will end in hours.

He wrote to X on Wednesday evening. “We agreed on certain steps that will end this disturbing and terrible situation tonight.”

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the country’s “US and Arab sides’ efforts to” resolve the current crisis “peacefully.

Israel has not yet commented on the cease -fire offer.

According to Syria’s state news agency Sana, Syrian troops began to withdraw from Suweida.

The army says that he left the city as a part of an agreement between the Syrian government and Suweida’s religious leaders, followed by the army’s “pursuit of the army’s law groups”.

The Israeli army began to hit the Syrian security forces and weapons on Monday after the first deployment of the rebels under the Sunni -Islamic leadership to the city of Suweida for the first time in December.

Syria, Israel, occupied Golan Hills and a BBC map showing the City of Suweida

Syria’s temporary President Ahmed Al-Sharaa promised to hold the responsible ones at an address held on a television on Thursday.

Uz We reject the attempt to drag you into the hands of an external party, and he called his protection “our priority”.

“We are not among those who are afraid of the war. We spent our lives to face difficulties and to defend our people, but we put the interests of the Syrians before chaos and destruction.” He said.

The minority groups, including the Drze, a branch of Shiite Islam with its own unique identity and beliefs, suspect the provisional president Ahmed Al -sharaa and its government despite the savagery of protecting them.

It has been reported that it has been killed in clashes between Drauze, Security Forces and allied Islamist warriors in Damascus and Suweida, including one in May, in May, has increased with epidemics of several sectarian violence in the last eight months.

Following this struggle, the government reached an agreement with Duze Militias to hire local security forces in Suweida.

Netanyahu, Israel and Israel’s occupied Golan hills and deep ties because of the deep ties in Syria is determined to prevent damage to Drze, he said.

Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz Wednesday afternoon “Warnings in Damascus” in the afternoon “warnings” and the Israeli army “until the completely withdrawal of the forces that attack Draze’ye forces in Suweida will continue to work violently,” he wrote.

Later on a video clip “painful blows started” A TV server that dives under a live table on the camera as Israel air strike hit the nearby entrance of the Syrian Ministry of Defense Umayyad Square, in the center of Damascus.

Fadi Al Halabi, a London -based Syrian filmmaker who visited Damascus, said he was close when he heard the Israeli fighter -plane approach.

“People’s faces were very scared. Everyone started running [in] street. Nobody knew where to go. Sudden air kick[s] In his statement to the BBC, he started to target some of the most crowded areas, including the Ministry of Defense.

The Israeli Army said that he fired a “military target in the region of the Presidential Palace in the capital and on his way to Suweida and heavier armored vehicles full of heavy machine guns and weapons and pole and weapons storage facilities in Southern Syria.

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that strikes target government institutions and civil facilities in Damascus and Suweida and killed “a few innocent civilians”.

“This ugly attack, which constitutes a part of a deliberate policy in exacerbating, spreading chaos and weakening security and stability in Syria, this ugly attack constitutes a clear violation of the United Nations charter and international human law.”

Meanwhile, the UK -based monitoring group, Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR), reported that the humanitarian situation in Suweida was rapidly worsening.

His sources said that there were clashes in various parts of the city and that tanks attacked the national hospital and caused panic among the scores of the losses caused by the fights treated there. They also said that there was a shortage of acute water and medical equipment.

Later, the Syrian Ministry of Health, according to the official news agency, said the government forces entered the hospital and found “dozens of corpses” after the law withdrawing “illegal groups”.

A man named Hosam told BBC that he was in the center of Suweida and witnessed civilians from artillery and snipers under fire.

“Today I lost my neighbor on the street. One of the snipers shot him. [get an] ambulance [to take] He said to the hospital, but we couldn’t, “he said.

Sohr says more than 300 people have been killed in Suweida since Sunday.

According to the group, there are 69 DRUZE fighters and 40 civilians who were killed by the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defense.

At least 165 members of the government forces and 18 Bedouin tribal fighters were killed in clashes, while 10 government forces were killed in Israeli strikes.

BBC cannot verify Sohr’s injured figures.

Reuters Celebrates the Syrian Security Forces, Suweida City, raising their rifles during clashes with DRUze fighters in Southern Syria (16 July 2025)Reuters

The Syrian Interior Ministry said that a ceasefire was accepted to end the fight in Suweida on Wednesday night

It is said that the struggle between Bedouin tribes in Suweida and the Draze militias was fired with the abduction of a droute merchant on the highway to Damascus last Friday.

On Sunday, armed Duze fighters were besieged and later seized a neighborhood of the city of Suweida by Bedouin. The clashes soon spread to other parts of Suweida province and the tribes reportedly launched attacks on nearby Drauze towns and villages.

Syria’s Ministry of Interior later announced that the forces and the forces of the Ministry of Defense would intervene and give orders and said that “the dangerous rise is light from the absence of the relevant official institutions”.

Earlier this year, he demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Suweida and the other two southern states be completely militaryized. Israel said that President Sharaa saw the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) as a threat. HTS is still a former al -Qaeda member by the UN and the UK as a terrorist organization, but no longer by the United States.

The Israeli army has carried out hundreds of strikes throughout Syria to destroy the country’s military assets since the fall of the Assad regime.

And the occupied Goyle Heights and Syria sent unity to the summit of the Hermon Mountain, as well as a few adjacent areas as well as troops, as well as troops.

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