Source: International Business Times
Members of Syria's Druze community wave flags and chant slogans during the funeral of people killed during clashes with Syrian security forces on April 30, 2025 AFP Israel struck Syria on Wednesday in what it called a "warning" against attacks on the Druze minority, in a military intervention that came as sectarian clashes spread near Damascus, killing 13 people. The sectarian violence, and Israel's intervention, present huge challenges to the Islamist authorities who overthrew longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December, and follow massacres last month in Syria's Alawite coastal heartland. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel "carried out a warning action and struck the organisation of an extremist group preparing to attack the Druze population" in Sahnaya.
