Sectarian clashes spread around the capital of Syria, a drawing in Israel

Israel faced a wave of sectarian violence in Syria, as it fired air strikes on Wednesday and threatens the strike of the Syrian government forces if the clashes continued with fighters from a minority of lessons in the country.

The Israeli army said that its planes struck a group of “activists” south of Damascus and accused them of “attacked civilians.” He did not specify the factors. But earlier, the Israeli government said the attack targeted members of an unidentified “extremist group”.

At least 39 people – 22 of whom were killed on Wednesday – were killed within two days of clashes between the Syrians on the outskirts of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war control group in Britain.

The Israeli air strikes came on Wednesday after the outbreak of violent clashes between the pro -government fighters and the militias near the town of Ashrafa Satnaya, which is a large -scale area south of Damascus.

The attacks on the areas surrounding Damascus with large groups of degrees began overnight from Monday to Tuesday, after an audio clip was circulated on social media claiming to be a cleric who raises the insult of the Prophet Muhammad. The cleric denied this accusation, and the Ministry of Interior in Syria said that its initial results showed that he was not the person in the clip.

Violence raises fears between many various ethnic and religious minorities in Syria, who have become increasingly concerned about persecution under the rule of the new Islamic leadership of Syria that overthrew the dictator Bashar al -Assad in December.

the The clashes started in Mostly, the city of Jaramana. By the end of Tuesday, 17 people died.

The turmoil spread overnight to Wednesday to his Ashraf Satnaya, where the militia fighters fought the “forces of the defense and interior ministries and other agents,” according to the Observatory War Monitoring Group.

The Syrian government news agency, Sana, said that the armed militants attacked the checkpoints and vehicles concerning the government forces in its Ashraf Satnaya. The agency did not say about the armed militants, but it seems to refer to the lessons fighters.

An official in the Syrian Ministry of Interior called on the militants who attacked the government forces “criminals” and said that the government would return “with an iron fist,” according to Long.

The first air strike on Israel was described on Wednesday as a warning against what was called a “extremist group” that was said to be preparing to attack the members of the religious minority in Druze, according to a joint statement issued by the Israeli Prime Minister’s office and the Minister of Defense.

Israel is home to a large lesson community, many of whom see themselves as loyal citizens and serve in the army. Israel offered to protect the Druze in Syria if they were attacked in the middle The loud transition to power In the country recently.

Many Syrian Druze rejected this offer.

Syria is mostly a Sunni Muslim nation, while the Druze is a religious group practiced A secret religion rooted in Islam. The rebels who led The overthrow of the former dictator Bashar al -Assad It belongs to a Sunni Islamic group that was once linked to the base. They are now Government operation And the National Army.

Since Mr. Assad was expelled to Israel Many incursions In Syria, the villages are raided, hundreds of air strikes and the destruction of military outposts. Israel says it wants to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of hostile groups and that it does not want to establish the enemy forces themselves in areas close to its borders.

The new Syrian leaders have struggled to integrate A complex network of armed groups It works throughout the country in the new state apparatus. Many of the strongest tenses of talks with the government about their circumstances to integrate into the army.

Sectarian violence has Syria has multiplied several times Since the overthrow of Mr. Assad, fears between many minority groups have been destroyed that the country’s new leaders will be eager or even targeting.

Last month, a A wave of sectarian killings Throughout the coastal region in Syria, a habitat in the country, a group of minorities to which the Assad family belongs.