Israel announced Friday (02.05.2025) to have carried out a bombing near the Damascus presidential palace, having threatened the Syrian government with reprisals if it did not protect the minority Drusa.
“Combat aircraft attacked the surroundings of the palace,” wrote the Israeli army in Telegram after two days of clashes in Syria that, according to an NGO, left more than 100 dead, many of them Druss.
Israel had warned the Syrian authorities that they did not march to the villages inhabited by members of the Drusa minority sect in the south of the country.
The attack occurred after several days of clashes between Syrian and combatant pro -government elements belonging to the Drusa sect near Damascus, the capital. Armed clashes left dozens of dead and injured.
The Israeli army pointed out in a statement that combat planes attacked a sector adjacent to the palace area of President Hussein al-Sharaa in Amasco. He did not give more details.
The Syrian official press confirmed that the attack occurred near the Palacio del Pueblo, located in a hill from which the city is dominated.
The Drusa religious sect is a minority group that was born in the 10th century as a branch of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. More than half of the million Drusos in the world lives in Syria. From the rest, most live in Lebanon and Israel, including the high -goals of the Golán that Israel snatched Syria in the Middle East War of 1967 and that was annexed in 1981.
In Syria, they live mainly in Sweida’s southern province and in some Damascus suburbs.
GS (AFP, AP, DPA)
