Syrian Government Officials and Leaders in the Druze Religious Minority Announced a renewed ceasefire wednesday after days Military Intervention by Powerful Neighbor Israel.

Convoys of Government Forces Begin Withdrawing From the City of Sweida, but It was not immedably clear if the agrement, Announced by Syria’s interior and in a video usage. Hold. A Previous Ceasefire Announced Tuesday Quickly Fell Apart, and a Prominent Druze Leader, Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri, Disavowed the New Agreement.

Israeli strkes continued after the ceasefire announcing.

Rare Israeli Airstrikes in the heart of Damascus

The Announcement came after israel launched rare airstrikes in the heart of Damascus, an escalation in a campaign that it said was intended to defender and Push islamic Militants away from. The druze form is a substantial community in israel as well as in syria and is seen in israel as a loyal minority, often serving in the military.

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The escalation in syria began with Tit-for-Tat kidnappings and attacks between Government forces that intervened to restore order classhed with the druze militias, but also in some cases attacked civilians.

The Violence appeared to be the most serious threat yet to education by syria’s new rulers to consolidate control of the country after a rebel official December, ending a nearly 14 -yar civil war.

The new, primarily sunni muslim, authorities have faced from Religious and Ethnic Minorities, especially after classhes Between Government forces and Prime Armed Groups Spirate Self in. Revenge Attacks. Hundreds of civilians from the alawite religious minority, to which assad belongs, were killed.

No official casualty figures have been released for the latest fighting since money, when the interior ministry said 30 people had been killed. The uk-based war monitor syrian observatory for human rights said more than 300 people had been killed as of wednesday morning, including four children, Eight Women and 165 Soldiers and Security Forms.

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Israel threatens Further escalation

Israel has launched dozens of stripes targeting government troops and convoys heading into sweeta, and on Wednesday struck the syrian defense ministry health to a busy square in damascus. Gathering Point After Assad’s Fall.

That Strike Killed Three People and Injured 34, Syrian Officials Said. Another Israeli Strike Hit Near The Presidial Palace in the Hills Outside Damascus.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz Said After the Initial Damascus Airstrike in a post on x that “painful blows have begun.”

Israel has taken an agressive stance toward syria’s new leders, said it didn’t want Islamist militants near its borders. Israeli forces have seized a un-patrolled buffer zone on syrian territory along the border with the golan heights and launched hundreds of airstyhes on airstytes on military sites in syria.

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Kats Said in a statement that israeli army “Will Continue to Attack Regime Forces Until They From The Area – And Will Also Soon Raise The Bar of Responses Against the Regime IF the Mesage Imp.”

An Israeli Military Official WHO SPOKE on Condition of Anonymity in Line With Regulations Said the army was preparing for a “multitude of scenarios” and that a brigade, normally composite Thousing Thouses of Soldiers, Wasout. Gaza and sent to the Golan heighs.

Syria’s defense ministry had earllier blamed militias in the druze-majority area of sweeta for violating the ceasefire agreement reached tuesday.

Druze Fear for the lives of relatives in sweeta

Reports of Attacks on Civilians Continued To Surface, And Druze with Family Members in The Conflict Zone Searched Desperate for Information about Amid Communication Blackouts.

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In Jaramana Near The Syrian Capital, Evelyn Azam, 20, Said She Fered that her husband, Robert Kiwan, 23, was dead. The newlyweds live in the Damascus suburb, but kiwan would commute to sweeda for work and got trapped there when erupted.

Azzam Said she was on the phone with kiwan when security forces questioned him and a colleague about where they were affiliated with druze militias. When her husband’s colleague raised his voice, she heard a gunshot. Kiwan was then shot while trying to appeal.

“They shot my husband in the hip, from what I could gather,” she said, breggling to hold back tears. “The ambulance is home to the hospital.

A Syrian Druze from Sweida Living in the United Arab Emirates Said her mother, Father and Sister Hiding in a basement in their Home Near, where they Could Hear the Sound of Shelling and Bullets. She spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear her family might be targeted.

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She had struggled to reach them, but when she did, she said, “I have cry. I have never heard them this way before.”

Another Druze Woman Living in the uae with family members in sweeta, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said a cousin told her that is a house where their relatives live down with eryone.

It is reminded her of when the islamic state extremist group attacked sweeta in 2018, she said. Her uncle was gang civilians there who had taken up arms to fight back while the assad’s forces stood aside. He was killed in the fighting.

“It’s the same right now,” She told the associated press. The druze figures, she said, “Just people who are protecting their province and their familyies.”

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The Druze Religious Sect Begin as a 10th-century offshoot of ismailism, a branch of shiite Islam. More than the half of the roughly 1 million druze worldwide live in syria. Most of the other druze live in lebanon and israel, including in the Golan heights, which israel captured from syria in the 1967 mideast war and annexed in 1981.

Reports of kilings and looting in druze areas

Videos surfaced on social media of Government-Afiliated figures forcibly shaving the mustaches of druze sheikhs and stepping on druze flags and pictures of religious clerics. Other videos showed druze figures beating captured government forces and posing by their bodies. AP Reporters in the area saw burned and looted houses.

The observatory said at Least 27 People were Killed in “Field Executions.”

Interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa Issued a Statement Wednesday Condemning The Violations and Vowing That Perpetraters would be punished.

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“They crimial and illegal acts can be accepted under any circuumstances, and completed the principles that the syrian state is built on,” the Statement Read.

Druze in the Golan gathered along the border fence to protest the Violence against Druze in Syria.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio Said Wednesday that washington “very concerned” about the israel-cyria violence, which he attributed to a “misunderstanding,” and has been in touch with sidest in. to restore calm.