Israel reportedly targets Bedouin convoy in Syria in wake of strikes

Qatar’s emir has condemned Israel’s days of attacks connected Syria successful a telephone speech with Syria’s president.

Syrian information forces are preparing to redeploy to Suwayda to quell warring betwixt the Druze and Bedouin tribes, the Syrian Interior Ministry spokesperson has said.

Israel has antecedently warned the Syrian authorities to retreat from the southbound and its forces carried retired an onslaught Friday connected Syria’s Palmyra-Homs highway, targeting a convoy of Bedouin fighters who were reportedly making their mode towards restive Suwayda successful the southbound of the country, according to Israel’s nationalist broadcaster Kan News.

This comes conscionable 2 days aft Israel carried retired dense attacks connected Damascus.

Bedouin fighters successful Syria said they launched a caller offensive against Druze fighters precocious connected Thursday, contempt the withdrawal of Syrian authorities forces from the southwestern state of Suwayda, and an effort by the Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to gully a enactment nether a caller eruption of deadly unit that killed hundreds.

A Bedouin subject commandant told the Reuters quality bureau that the truce lone applied to authorities forces and not to them, adding that the fighters were seeking to escaped Bedouins whom Druze equipped groups had detained successful caller days.

Bedouin fighters person managed to scope the Suwayda country successful the past fewer hours, the Kan study said, confirming earlier reports from Arabic-language quality media.

Syria’s enactment has condemned Israel’s attacks arsenic a usurpation of its sovereignty amid attempts to cement a ceasefire betwixt Bedouin and Druze fighters.

Israel has justified its latest bombing of Syria nether the pretext that it is protecting the Druze minority. But the state has much self-serving reasons.

Israel has agelong attacked Syria, adjacent earlier the latest outbreak of unit involving the Druze successful Suwayda.

Since the removal of longtime person Bashar al-Assad aft a devastating 14-year war, Israel has struck Syria hundreds of times and invaded and occupied astir 400sq km (155sq miles) of its territory, excluding the occidental Golan Heights, which it has occupied since 1967.

Leading analysts wrong Israel suggest that these latest attacks whitethorn not person been wholly motivated by interest for the payment of the Druze, truthful overmuch arsenic the idiosyncratic and governmental aims of the Israeli authorities and its embattled premier minister.

The latest reports of unit travel contempt a ceasefire agreed connected Wednesday, aft Israel had conducted its ain attacks connected Syria, striking the Ministry of Defence and adjacent the statesmanlike palace successful Damascus.

Al-Sharaa said successful a televised code connected Thursday that protecting the country’s Druze citizens and their rights was a precedence arsenic helium announced that section leaders would instrumentality power of information successful Suwayda successful a bid to extremity sectarian unit successful the southbound and halt Israel from attacking.

Sheikh Hikmat Al Hijri, 1 of the spiritual leaders of the Syrian Druze assemblage said, ” We are not sectarian, and we person ne'er wanted to origin division. We clasp afloat work for anyone who tampers with information and stability. We affirm that whoever engages successful sabotage oregon incitement represents lone himself, and we cull that his actions beryllium attributed to immoderate sect oregon region.”

Condemnation from Qatar, Turkiye; US ‘did not enactment Israeli strikes’

In the meantime, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has condemned Israel’s days of attacks connected Syria successful a telephone speech with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

The emir described Israel’s bombing of Syria arsenic a “flagrant violation” of the country’s sovereignty, planetary law, the United Nations Charter, “and a menace to determination stability”, according to a connection from Sheikh Tamim’s bureau connected Friday.

President Tayyip Erdogan said connected Thursday that Turkiye would not let Syria to beryllium divided oregon its multicultural operation and territorial integrity harmed, aft Israel’s actions sought to “sabotage” a ceasefire successful the country.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian person al-Sharaa discussed Israel’s attacks connected Damascus successful a telephone telephone connected Thursday, the presidency said, adding Erdogan had voiced enactment for Damascus.

Turkiye played a important relation successful securing a ceasefire successful Syria pursuing Israeli aerial attacks connected Damascus. Turkish quality officials held talks with Syria’s Druze leader, a Turkish information root said connected Thursday.

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce has said the United States condemns unit successful Syria and called connected the Syrian authorities to pb the way forward.

“We are engaging diplomatically with Israel and Syria astatine the highest levels, some to code the contiguous situation and scope a lasting statement betwixt the 2 sovereign states,” she said connected Thursday.

Bruce continued that “regarding Israel’s intervention and activity” successful Syria, the US “did not enactment caller Israeli strikes”.

It was unclear if Bruce’s comments referred to conscionable US logistical enactment for the Israeli military’s attacks against Syria.

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