Israel launched air attacks on Syria on Wednesday and threatened to hit government forces there if the clashes persisted between the pro -government and the militiamen of the minority of Druse.
In the last eruption of sectarian violence in the country, the Israeli army said that his plane had hit a group of “agents” accused of having “attacked Drouse’s civilians” in Soolence around the outskirts. The Syrian governor of the area, AMR al-Sheikh, said at a press conference on Wednesday night that the air attack had killed a member of the General Security Forces of the Syrian Government and a civil.
The Israeli army did not identify the “operations”, but the forces aligned with the Islamist government have been enclosed in fierce clashes in the area with Druce militiamen for two days. Previously, the Israeli government said their forces had directed members of an “extremist” not identified to the south of Damascus.
Israel is home to a substantial community of Duse, many of whom look like loyal citizens and serve in the army.
At least 39 people who include 22 on Wednesday have been killed in two days of clashes between Syrians on the outskirts of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a group of war monitors based in Great Britain.
Israeli air attacks occurred on Wednesday after violent clashes broke out in the city of Ashrafieh Sahnaya, an area in large part of Duse south of Damascus.
The attacks against Damascus with great populations of Duse begged during the night on Monday until Tuesday after an audio clip circulated on social networks that seek to be a clergyman of Duse that insulted 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 who were increasingly concerned about persecution under the government of the new Islamist leaders of Syria, who overthrew the dictator Bashar al-Assad in December.
The last wave of sectarian violence is found in the predominantly Druse de Jaramana city. At the end of Tuesday, 17 people had killed bones.
The riots extended to Ashrafieh Sahnaya on Wednesday, where Druse’s militia fighters fought for “affiliated forces to the Ministries of Defense and Interior and other power forces” of the Government, according to the war monitoring group.
Mr. Al-Sheikh, the governor of the area, said at the press conference that the members of the “outlaw groups” had attacked the control points attended by the government security forces in Jaramana on Tuesday and in Ashrafiehon’s Tordy, betting the issue of cleft.
He said that 14 were killed in total on both sides on Monday. The clashes exploded twice in Ashrafieh Sahnaya on Wednesday between government forces and outlaws, he said, killing 11 government forces.
Mr. Al-Sheikh did not identify the “outlaw groups.” But in an apparent reference to the militias of Duse that seem linked to Wednesday’s clashes, the three times repeated that “weapons should be in the hands of the State.”
Syrian’s new 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.
Abu Hassan, a commander of the Druse militia in the city of South Sweid Druse Abu Hassan also suggested that the audio clip had one leg a false pretext for violence, saying that this was really solving old scores after the civil war of almost 14 years of Syria.
The state news agency, healthy, said that armed men, an apparent reference to Druse fighters, had attacked control points and vehicles during the night belonging to government forces in Ashrafieh Sahnaya.
An official of the Interior Ministry called the armed men who attacked the “criminals” government forces and promised that the government would return the coup “with an iron fist,” according to healthy.
Israel’s first aerial attack on Wednesday was described as a warning against “an extremist group” that is said to be prepared to attack Duse, according to a joint statement from the office of the Israeli Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense.
Israel has offered to protect the Druse in Syria if they are attacked in the midst of the tumultuous transition of power in the country. Many Syrian druses have rejected that offer, however, denouncing what they consider a potentially destructive foreign interference.
Syria is a predominantly Sunnite Muslim nation, while Druse is a religious group that practices a secret religion rooted in Islam.
The rebels who expelled Mr. Al-Assad were led by a Sunni Islamist group 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 strengthen near their borders.
Sectarian violence has affected Syria several times since the expulsion of Mr. Al-Assad, fueling fears among many minority groups that the new leaders of the country will marginalize or point them out.
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.
