“After the Alawites, Christians, are other minorities next?” a community leader told The Jerusalem Post. “This is really shocking and heartbreaking.”
40-year-old woman injured on way to shelter during Yemen missile sirens • Gaza flotilla claims drone attack
Netanyahu and Katz stated that the strike was "a clear message" that Israel would not allow any danger to the Druze community.
Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel's Druze community, and MK Hamad Amar issued a joint statement asking activists to clear the roads and return home.
"We no longer trust the body that calls itself a government," Hakmat Al-Hajeri, a leader in Syria’s Druze community, said.
The source said Turkey had provided "the necessary space" for Damascus to address Turkey's concerns over Kurdish militants in Syria.
Huge projects were stymied early by corruption, sanctions and money problems, and the plans went spectacularly wrong with the fall of Assad.
Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif called on Israel to act: "Israel must not stand idly by while this is happening in Syria."
Authorities investigating terrorism as motive for arson • Syrian Islamist attacks on Druze could be a collision course with Israel
President Shara’a has won diplomatic praise, but deadly clashes reveal his blind spot: failing to defuse Syria’s deep sectarian tensions.
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