On Friday in what Israeli leaders said that Israeli leaders felt for the government to protect Druse's minority after a new wave of sectarian violence.
More than 100 people have been killed this week in clashes involving a number of parties, including Sunni Muslim extremists not completely under the control of the government, the forces of the new government and the fighters of the country's minority of the country.
The Israeli strike has been the last of a series of attacks on Syria in recent months aimed at preventing weapons and territory near the borders of Israel to fall into the hands of hostile forces. But it was also a reminder that the new Syrian government has little resorted as well as condemning the attacks as it struggles to gain control over a fractured country and unify it after almost 14 years of civil war.
Both Israel and Syria have great communities of druses. And Israel has already offered to protect the Syrian druse if they had attacked during the tumultuous transition of power in the country after the Islamic rebels overturned Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship in December.
Israel has carried out hundreds of air attacks and raids on the Syrian territory, destroying weapons and military outposts. On Friday he clarified again that he was determined to prevent southern Syria, who are controlled by druse, from falling under the dominion of more extreme groups that could threaten Israel.
Israel said she had attacked near the presidential palace in the capital, Damascus. The Israeli defense minister Israel Katz called him “a clear warning” for the new Syrian president, Ahmed al-Shara. He said that when Al-Shara “wakes up and sees the results of the Jets strike of the Israeli Air Force, it will understand that Israel is determined to prevent any damage to the druse in Syria”.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has requested a total demilitarization of southern Syria in the past and has said that Israel will not allow the forces of the new Syrian soldiers to enter the territory south of Damascus.
Analysts said that Israel's determination to prevent hostile groups within Syria from establishing a military presence close to his borders derived in part from his experience with Hezbollah in Lebanon. For decades, Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group supported by Iran, has set up Roccaforti in the southern Lebanon near the border with Israel that allowed him to threaten the Israeli communities through the border-establish that led to multiple conflicts.
Friday's strike was the second time this week that Israel intervened militarily within Syria on behalf of Druse in the midst of a new attack of sectarian violence in the country. During the disorders, the Sunnite extremists attacked the areas with large populations of druses on the outskirts of Damascus.
Before becoming president, Al-Shara led the rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, who was once affiliated with Al Qaeda, and directed a coalition of rebellious forces that overturned Mr. Al-Assad. The coalition included its group and other Islamist rebellious factions with more extreme ideologies.
Many of these groups have not been brought under the control of new national soldiers and the authorities of Syria have shown little ability to reincaricate them.
The office of the Syrian president condemned the Israeli attack near the presidential palace as a “dangerous escalation” aimed at undermining the stability of the country. It was one of the strongest statements of the new Syrian leaders against Israel.
But Mr. Al-Shara cannot afford an additional escalation with Israel. The control of its government does not yet extension to most of the country. It is struggling to build a new military and calm waves of sectarian violence and unify a country torn from years of civil conflict.
Druses are one of the many minorities of Syria and their militias have so far resisted the integration into the national army.
There are more than one million druses throughout the Middle East, mainly in Syria and Lebanon, and some in Jordan and Israel. Druse practices a secret branch of Islam that contains elements of Christianity, Hinduism, Gnosticism and other philosophies.
The monotheistic sect recognizes the prophets of Abramatic faiths, including Jesus, John the Baptist, Muhammad and Moses and reverence Greek philosophers such as Plato and Socrates.
Wherever they are, druses generally tend to participate in national and national politics and often serve in the local army while maintaining a distinct culture and a religious practice.
Some Syrian druses have links with the community of Druse in Israel and Israel not only offered to protect Druse in Syria, but also tried to cultivate relations with the community. But many Syrian druses have rejected what the potentially destructive foreign interference consider.
The community of Druse in Israel, however, is pushing to intervene for Israel. On Friday's strike in Damascus came after Druse demonstrators in Israel blocked the highways on Thursday among the growing requests from the members of the community there that Israel Act with force in Syria.
The Israeli army also declared on Thursday that its forces were lined up in the southern Syrian region and “prepared to prevent the hostile forces from entering the region and Druse villages”.
Katz, the Minister of Defense, declared Thursday that Israel “replied with great gravity” if the attacks on druse did not stop, saying that the Syrian leadership was responsible for preventing them.
“We are busy defending the druse,” he added.
On Wednesday, Israel launched aerial attacks on Syria and threatened to hit government forces if they persisted among clashes among the extremist militants freely affiliated with the government and the members of the Druse militia. The Israeli army said that his plane hit a group of “agents” that Israel accused of having “attacked the civil civilians” in the violence widespread around the outskirts of Damascus.
The most recent outbreak of sectarian disorders in Syria began on Tuesday after an audio clip circulated on social media that claimed to be of a cleric druse that insults the prophet Muhammad. The cleric denied the accusation and the Ministry of the Interior of Syria said she was not involved.
The armed Sunnis extremists therefore began to attack the areas with large populations of druses, including the city of Jaramana near Damascus. Druse Militias replied in force and the government sent the security personnel to repress the unrest.
On Wednesday, the clashes spread to another city on the southern suburbs of Damascus and in the Sweida region controlled by Druse in Southern Syria, with fighting fighting until Thursday morning.
Five important leaders of druses released a statement on Thursday evening indicating the will to unite the forces with the government. They said that the government forces were lined up to ensure the way from Sweida to the capital.
The government agreed to send reinforcements to protect Jaramana, Druse's leaders said.
Thursday the State Department invited the Syrian government to stop sectarian violence and to consider the authors responsible.
“The recent violence and inflammatory targeting rhetoric of the Druse community in Syria are reprovable and unacceptable,” said a spokesperson, Tammy Bruce. “Settarism will only sink Syria and the region in chaos and more violence.”
Euan Ward AND Rasgon man Contributed relationships.