ast week, the predatory Israeli military took time from its busy schedule of exterminating Gaza’s Palestinians, bombing and shooting Palestinians across the West Bank, bombing Lebanon, and initiating an assortment of bombing runs across Syrian territory – including the capital Damascus – to launch an extra special bombing run.
The latest air raid targeted what Israel claimed was “an extremist group” that had attacked members of the Syrian Druze community, whom Israel “promised” to defend within Syria itself.
Following the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last December at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate, state-linked sectarian violence against Syrian Alawites and Druze has broken out. Religious minorities have felt beleaguered and increasingly fearful of what lies ahead.
Despite assurances from Syria’s interim self-declared president and former al-Qaeda commander, Ahmed al-Sharaa, that religious minorities would be protected, the regime has already begun imposing “Sunni Islamist” strictures on many aspects of society, including school curricula and the gender segregation of public transportation.
Meanwhile, sectarian violence by state-linked groups and non-state militias persists. …..more