Even before the sun rises on Thursday, Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sara had already made several announcements on national television.
In a dawn speech, the internal disturbance between Sunni Bedouins and Drews Minorities, resulting in about 360 people killed in the southern province of Sweda, ended. He confirmed that the government forces were not posted in the sector.
Al-Shara then underlined his commitment to protect the rights and freedom of the Drews community and confirmed its place in the Syrian society.
But the main part of his speech was directed to Syria’s neighbor Israel.
This week, Israel started attacks on Syrian soldiers in Syrian government buildings and Swarna region in Damascus, resulting in 20 people.
For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “attacks were necessary to save our drama brothers and eliminate the gang of governance.”
Nevertheless, in the idea of al-shara, Israel was exploiting unrest by targeting only by targeting civil infrastructure and derailing peace and reconstruction in his country.
“We, the people of Syria, know a lot that we are trying to drag us into war and who are working to divide us,” Al-Sara said, “We will not harass them to confuse our people in one who only works to prepare our motherland and work for destruction.”
Expert: Israel’s modus operandi is ‘force’
The latest attacks on the Syrian capital increase Israel’s military operations in the country. Israel started bombing Syria after overthrowing the country’s dictator, Bashar Assad, in early December 2024, to ensure that Asad’s weapons did not fall into the hands of the new government.
According to Charles Lister, the head of the Syrian initiative of the Washington -based Middle East Institute, Israel has done only 1,000 strikes on Syria, and captured 180 square kilometers in the country in December 2025. Lister said that the Syrian government has not retaliated at all.
Officer, the country has been in war since 1967. That year, Israel captured Syria’s Golan heights, a strategic plateau on the border, and then annexed it effectively in 1981. The international community considered Golan Heights as a military business in the Syrian region. America and Israel recognize the region as Israel.
Following the case of Assad, Israeli soldiers have moved beyond a dimilitated zone along the Israeli-Syrian border, monitoring by the United Nations, as a 1974 ceasefire deal placed bets on the two countries.
Ryan Bohl, Senior Middle East and North African analyst at the US -based security intelligence firm Rane Network, is trying to take out an informal buffer zone in Israel southern Syria. ” told This week news agency Bloomberg.
Earlier in March, Netanyahu of Israel said that the south of Syria should be a demarcated area.
Yosi Mekeberg, professor of international relations,, “What is happening in Syria, Israel is a message for the government recently for the government in Damascus.” Regent University of LondonTold DW. “A problem with the current Israeli government is that its only modus is using the operandi force,” he said.
Israeli strike key time
“There is pressure in Israel to protect the drooses, as in Israel, there is a long and deep root aligning between the Drews and the Jews,” said Mekeberg.
In Israel, the drews are a community of about 150,000. Drew men regularly serve in the Israeli army.
In Syria, around 700,000 droves make one of the largest minorities in Syria.
But this is the time of Israel attacks on Syria this week. On Wednesday, Netanyahu had to appear in the court as part of his ongoing corruption test. His coalition government has become fragile after two parties left earlier this month. This can lead to general elections in early 2026.
Netanyahu has faced a bee under increasing pressure by the US and European states to end the war in Gaza and calls for the withdrawal of hostages organized by the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, classified as a terrorist group by the US and Man Oth countries. And Netanyahu is working with domestic and international contractions for humanitarian destruction in Gaza, as there are results of Israeli military operations.
“He can use the situation in view of Netanyahu’s undivided diagnosis and opportunism performance [such as the clashes involving Syria’s Druze minority] To avoid the crisis within his legal matters and their alliance, “Mekeberg said.” On October 7, as a ‘Mr. Security’, at least one front open and depicting Hemelfa, especially when he can consider the early general elections, the way is that hey is always operated. ,
Next week, Israeli’s Parliament goes to a summer break which will break the politics of domestics by October.
Israel wants Syria to be weak
The other objective of Israel is a very weak position for Syria or a broken position, so that it is undone to threaten Israel, Bohl of the night network told Bloomberg.
It seems that Nanar Hawach, a senior Syrian analyst of the Think Tank International Crisis Group, says.
“Damascus recently weakened by clashes, it was forced to retreat the army. [and] This not only lost the trust of the Drews community, but also among the various communities that are not aligning with the state, “he told DW.
In his view, Syria is even more fragile. “Damascus lost so geographically because the government now has a low attendance in the south, especially in Sweda,” Hey said.
Hey that Syrian interim President Ahmed Al-Shra could fulfill his promise and drew could protect the minority.
Hawach said, “This seems to be a political gesture more than a reliable guarantee,”, stating that government forces were seen as a siding with anti-drag militia and there were reliable reports of some misconduct drew citizens.
“As long as Damascus does not improve its safety approach and does not make his forces accountable, he would struggle to explain to dreos, or other minority communities, that it can actually ensure their safety,” he concluded.
Edited by: Cathrin Sherler
