Israel went to a wave of sectarian violence in Syria, launching air attacks on Wednesday and threatening to hit the forces of the Syrian government if the clashes persist with the combatants of the country’s druse minority.
The Israeli army said that his plane had hit a group of “agents” to the south of Damascus and accused them of “attacked Drouse’s civilians.” He did not identify the operations. But before, the Israeli government said the attack directed members of an unidentified “extremist group.”
At least 37 people, 28 of them on Wednesday, have been killed in two days of clashes among Syrians on the outskirts of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a group of war monitoring based in Great Britain.
Israeli air attacks occurred on Wednesday after violent clashes broke out between pro -global and militia fighters from Duse from near the city of Ashrafieh Sahnaya, an area in large part of Duse to the south of Damascus.
The attacks against Damascus with great populations of Duse begged during the night from Monday to Tuesday after an audio clip circulated on social networks that intend to be a clergy of Duse insulting the prophet Muhammad. The cleric denied the accusation, and the Interior Ministry of Syria said that his initial findings showed that he was not the person in the clip.
Violence is fanning the fears between the various ethnic and religious minorities of Syria, which grew more and more concerned about persecution under the government of the new Islamist leadership of Syria, which overthrew the dictator Bashar al-Assad in December.
The confrontations were in the predominantly Druse of Jaramana. At the end of the day on Tuesday, 11 people were dead.
The riots extended during the night until Wednesday to Ashrafieh Sahnaya, where Druse’s militia fighters fought against “affiliated forces to the Ministries of Defense and Interior and other proxy forces of the Government, according to the Observatory group.
The news agency of the Syrian state, healthy, said that the armed gunmen attacked the control points and vehicles that belong to government forces in Ashrafieh Sahnaya. The agency did not say who the armed gunmen were, but apparently it was making a reference to the Druse fighters.
An official of the Syrian Interior Ministry called the gunmen who attacked the “criminals” government forces and said that the government would go back “with an iron fist,” according to healthy.
Israel’s first aerial attack on Wednesday was described as a warning against what he called “an extremist group” that is said to be prepared to attack the members of the Religious minority Duse, chording to a joint statement of the Israeli prime minister.
Israel is home to a substantial community of Duse, many of whom look like loyal citizens and serve in the army. Israel has offered to protect Druse in Syria if they are attacked in the midst of the tumultuous transition of power in the country recently.
Many Syrian druses have rejected that sacrifice.
Syria is a predominantly Sunnite Muslim nation, while Druse is a religious group that practices a secret religion rooted in Islam. The rebels who led the overthrow of former dictator Bashar al-Assad belonged to a Sunni Islamist group that was once linked to Al Qaeda. Now they direct the Government and the National Army.
Since Mr. Al-Assad was expelled, Israel has carried out numerous incursions in Syria, attacking villages, launching hundreds of air attacks and destroying military advanced positions. Israel says that it wants to prevent weapons from falling into hostile groups and that it does not want enemy forces to be entrenched in areas near their borders.
The new Syrian leaders have fought to integrate the complex network of armed groups operating throughout the country in the new state apparatus. Several of the strongest Drouse militias are in conversations with the government about their conditions to integrate into the army.
Sectarian violence has affected Syria several times since the expulsion of Mr. Assad, fueling fears among many minority groups that the new leaders of the country will marginalize or even go to them.
Last month, a wave of Syria’s Syria’s Syrian Murders Coastal Region, home of the country’s Alawwites, the minority group to which the Assad family belongs.
