The Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has said that protecting the Drusites of the country and their rights is a priority, since he announced that local leaders will take control of security in the city of Suwayda in an attempt to end the sectarian violence in the south and the root of the mortals Israeli Strikes in Damascus.
The Syrian leader made the statements in a televised speech on Thursday, addressing days of fierce clashes between armed Drusos, Beduine tribes and governmental forces in the predominantly Drouse de Suwayda city that have killed more than 360 people, according to the UK -based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
Israel, who sees the Druse as an ally, launched a series of powerful attacks near the presidential palace of Syria and at the military headquarters in the heart of Damascus on Wednesday, warning Syria that would increase Furt and did not do so, he did not realize that he noticed that he did it, the community did it.
“We are interested in responsible for those who transgressed and abused our Druso people, since they are under the protection and response of the state,” Sharaa said in the speech, describing the minority as “a fundamental part of the fabric of this nation.”
“We affirm that the protection of their rights and freedoms is among our main priorities, and we reject any attempt aimed at attracting it towards an outside part.”
Al-Sharaa said that “responsibility” for the security in plagued violence would be given to religious in other places and some local factions “based on the Supreme National Interest.”
The troops withdraw
The comments occurred after the Syrian government and leader Druse Sheikh Yousef Jarbou announced a new high fire in the city, and said the army had begun to withdraw from Suwayda.
But there seems to be no consensus in Suwayda among the Druss, a small but influential minority in both Syria and Israel.
While Sheikh Jarbou told Heyre to the agreement of Alto El Fuego and spoke against Israeli attacks on Syria, Count Al Jazeera Arabic that “any attack against the Syrian state is an attack against the Druce community in the Citye Leefire.”
Sheikh Hikmat al-Ahajari promised to continue fighting until Suwayda was “completely released.”
‘Unknown destiny’ Avoided
In the speech, Al-Sharaa requested the national unity, saying that “the construction of a new Syria requires that we all stop our state, we commit ourselves to its principles and place the nation of the nation above any personal or limited interest.”
Going to the Druse community, he said that the government rejected “any attempt to drag at the hands of an external party,” in a reference to Israel’s intervention in the conflict.
“We are not among those who fear war. We have spent our lives facing challenges and defending our people, but we have the interests of the Syrians before chaos and destruction,” he said.
He added that the extensive strikes of Israel, including those who killed three people and wounded 34 in Damascus on Wednesday, could push “matters to a large scale escalation, if it were not the mediator of Savon, Turkish and Arab.
The United States, which has softened its position towards Syria and tries to re -involve and support the reconstruction of the country after more than a decade of conflict, has a bone anxious to descalize the conflict, which moody the passion are the neighbors Tammy. ”
Actions ‘more noisy than the words’
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Mohamad Elmmasry, a professor of media studies at the Doha Graduate Studies Institute, said that Al-Shara’s speech contained encouraging messages about the place of the Drouse minority in Syrian society.
“He said the Drusos are an essential component,” said Elmasry. “He said it is the responsibility of the Syrian government to protect them and sustain to account for those who have transgressed against them in recent days.”
But, he said, everything would be reduced to how his government’s behavior after speech.
“I think their actions will speak more than the words for those minority groups in Syria.”
He said that the speech also contained a warning note to Israel who did not fear war and that “anyone who begins a war with Syria … would regret it.”
“These were messages addressed to Israel, and marked a very significant deviation of what we have heard from him and sometimes he did not listen to him when Israel has attacked Syria,” Elmasry said.
“I think we are at a potentially dangerous turning point and will really be reduced to the extent that Donald Trump and the United States are willing to rein children in Israel,” he said.
“It is a very different situation in Syria. You are talking about a very multiple society. You have external forces, starting with Israel, trying to basically fragment the country and establish a separatist system, if you want, in Syria,” Elmasry.
Cycle of Violence
The climbing in Syria begged with kidnappings and teta attacks by eye between armed factions and local Sunni tribes in the province of Suwayda.
The government forces that intervened to restore the order faced with the Druze, with reports of Syrian troops committing abuse, according to local monitors and analysts.
The actions committed by the members of the security forces, recognized as “illegal criminal acts” by the Syrian present, have given Israel a pretext to bombard Syria while building Military Forces of Syria Sone.
