The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu today called on (16.07.2025) the Druzos not to cross the border with the Syriaafter the attack of government forces in Damascus in order to put an end to conflicts where the community is involved.
“Do not cross the border,” Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement, estimating that the situation in suede, a majority of a majority of dwarfers in southern Syria, is “very serious”.
The clashes continued today in the city, which until recently was under the control of local fighters and where the government forces were developed yesterday, Tuesday.
Members of the Druze community, the mystical minority of Islam, are located in Israel.
“My brothers, Israeli Druzo citizens, the situation in Suite, the situation in southwestern Syria, is very serious.
The Israeli army is acting, the Air Force is acting, other forces are acting. We are doing to save our brothers and exterminate the regime gangs.
And now I have a request from you: You are citizens of Israel. Do not cross the border.
You endanger your life, you may be murdered, you can abstain and harm IDF’s efforts. So please – return to your homes, let IDF act, “the Israeli prime minister says.
Dozens of Druzhrs move to the border
Netanyahu’s appeal came after, dozens of Druzians crossed the Syrian -Israel border today, heading to both countries, shortly after warnings of Israel’s blows that demands Damascus to withdraw its troops from southern Syria.
Israeli soldiers and border guards patrol the border where wire fences rise many meters near the city of Magdal Sams, a French agency reporter reported.
Dozens of Druzians crossed the border in both directions, in a state of chaos, under the throwing of tear gas launched by the Israeli forces trying to prevent them, he added.
The Israeli army said today that it identified “dozens of suspects” trying to cross the border from the Hanter zone, a village in southern Syria that occupied Israel after the fall of Bashar al -Assad.
“At the same time, many Israeli civilians crossed the border fence to enter the Syrian territory in the Magdal Sams area,” the army added.
This morning, the Israeli army announced that it had hit the entrance of the Syrian Armed Forces General Staff in Damascus and that it had reinforced its troops on the border with Syria, following an Israeli government’s threat that it would exacerbate it.
Israel and Syria are technically under the absence of a peace treaty between the two countries.