Syrian Druze leader condemns the government on sectarian violence news

The Syrian Druze leader condemns the “genocide campaign” after dozens of people were killed in clashes south of Damascus.

The leader of the Syrian minority condemned the attacks against his community after dozens of people were killed within two days of sectarianism Clashes south of Damascus.

On Thursday, Sheikh Hekimat Stone condemned violence in Jaramana and Sahnaya near Damascus earlier this week as a “group extermination campaign” against the Druze community in Syria.

The Syrian Ministry of Information said that 11 members of the country’s security forces were killed in two separate attacks.

The Syrian Observatory in the United Kingdom of Human Rights (Sohr), a war observer, said at least 101 people were killed in the fighting between the security forces, allied fighters and local Druze groups.

Sohr, who relies on a network of sources in Syria, said that the number of deaths included 30 government loyalists, 21 Druze fighters and 10 civilians, including the former mayor of Sahnaya, Husam Warwar.

In the southern province of Sweden, the heart of the Druze minority, she said that 40 Druze fighters were killed, 35 in an “ambush” on the Swedish Damaskus road on Wednesday.

The clashes erupted around midnight on Monday, after an audio clip was distributed on a social media to a man criticizing the Prophet of Islam Muhammad. The sound is due to the Draz researcher. But the researcher, Marwan Kiwan, said in a video posted on social media that he was not responsible for the sound, which angered many Sunni Muslims.

Wednesday afternoon, Syrian government He said a deal was reached between senior officials and official actors, after which the security forces and pro -government fighters entered in Sortaya, and the militants withdrew from the streets.

Social media videos showed what appears to be in pro -government armed groups and hit the men who seized him in Sahnaya and made offensive sectarian notes.

“This mass killing is systematic, clear, visible and reliable.” “We no longer trust a group that calls itself the government, because the government does not kill its people through the extremist gangs loyal to it, and after the massacre claims that they are loose forces.”

Violence is a dangerous challenge for the new authorities in the country, which has long been overthrown by the ruler, Bashar al -Assad. This comes after a wave of massacres in March in Harts, Syria on the Mediterranean coast, where security forces and allied groups killed more than 1700 civilians, most of whom were from alleite, according to a wall.

Syrian authorities refuse foreign interference

Israeli officials have expressed his support for the Druze, as Defense Minister Israel Katz warns his country “with great strength” if the new authorities in Syria fail to protect the minority society.

In a later statement, Katz said: “If the attacks are on the CV and the Syrian regime fails to prevent them, then Israel will respond with great force.”

On Thursday, Foreign Minister Assad Al -Shaybani repeated Syria’s rejection of the demands of international intervention, as it was published on X that “national unity is the strong basis for any stability or revival.”

He added: “Any invitation to external intervention, under any pretext or slogan, only leads to more deterioration and division.”

Most of the leaders and spiritual factions who spread their grievances in closed communication with the new government have chosen, but the concerns increased after a campaign of Assad loyalists in the Syrian coastal province to a series of targeted revenge attacks against the Supreme Minority Group.

The widely circulated videos of burning houses and blood -stained bodies on the streets. Tens of thousands of Alert fled in the south to the neighboring Lebanon, and many of them are afraid of returning.

The Druze has become since then He hesitates to put their armsAnd that they say they need protection.