New York.- The U.S. special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, announced this Friday that Israel and Syria reached a ceasefire agreement supported by the U.S. and accepted by Turkey.
“Israeli Prime Minister @Netanyahu and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa @SyPresidency, with the support of the US @SecRubio, agreed to a ceasefire, accepted by Turkey, Jordan and their neighbors,” reported Barrack on his X profile.
The U.S. ambassador to Turkey also called on the Druze, Bedouin, and Sunni populations to lay down their arms and, “together with other minorities, build a new Syrian identity united in peace and prosperity with their neighbors.”
This Thursday, Israel bombed the Al-Suwayda province in southern Syria again, despite the withdrawal of Syrian government troops from the region, following the Wednesday’s ceasefire between them and the local factions they were fighting.
Druze Minority and Bedouins Confronted
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights organization assured that it had reached a group of Bedouins, a community that in recent days has been involved in intense clashes with the Druze minority of Al-Suwayda.
Israel previously stated that it acts in defense of the Druze minority in Syria and even, under this premise, carried out Wednesday bombings against the Ministry of Defense and the vicinity of the Presidential Palace in Damascus.
Sectarian violence in the southern Syrian province of Al-Suwayda, with a Druze majority and where in the last five days there were
clashes with Bedouin tribes in which the armies of Syria and Israel took part, has caused the displacement of almost 2,000 families, according to the UN.
