Israel launched aerial attacks on Syria on Wednesday and threatened to hit the government forces if the clashes persisted between pro-government and militia fighters from the minority of druses.
Taking the last eruption of sectarian violence in the country, the Israeli military said that his plane has affected a group of “agents” accused of having “attacked the civil civilians” to spread the violence around the periphery of the capital, Damascus. The Syrian governor of the area, Amr Al-Sheikh, said in a press conference on Wednesday evening that the air attack had killed a member of the general security forces of the Syrian government and a civil.
The Israeli army did not identify the “agents”, but the forces aligned with the Islamist government were blocked in ferocious clashes in the area with Druse Militmen for two days. Previously, the Israeli government said that its forces had targeted the members of an “extremist group” not identified south of Damascus.
Israel hosts a substantial community of druses, many of which are seen as faithful citizens and serve in the army.
At least 39 people-than 22 on Wednesday-on-two-day two days of clashes between the Syrians on the outskirts of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group of war monitoring with headquarters in Great Britain.
The Israeli aircraft attacks on Wednesday came after violent clashes were broken out around the city of Ashrafieh Sahnaya, an area mostly of druses south of Damascus.
The attacks on the areas around Damascus with great populations of druses began during the night from Monday to Tuesday after an audio clip circulated on social media that claimed to be a cleric druse that insults the prophet Muhammad. The cleric denied the accusation and the Ministry of the Interior of Syria said that its initial results showed that it was not the person in the clip.
Violence is fueling the fears between the different ethnic and religious minorities of Syria who have become increasingly worried about the persecution under the dominion of the new Islamist leaders of Syria, who have overturned the dictator Bashar al-Assad in December.
The last wave of sectarian violence began in the city mainly of Jaramana's druses. At the end of Tuesday, 17 people had been killed.
The unrest released on Wednesday in Ashrafieh Sahnaya, where the Druse Militia fighters fought “offense to defense and interior ministries and other prosecutor forces” of the government, according to the war monitoring group.
Al-Sheikh, the governor of the area, said in the press conference that the members of the “outlaw groups” attacked the checkpoints managed by the government's security forces in Jaramana Tuesday and Ashrafieh Sahnaya on Wednesday, pushing the government to warn both cities to protect them.
He said that 14 were killed in total on both sides on Monday. On Wednesday he broke out twice in clashes in Ashrafieh Sahnaya between government and outlaw forces, killing 11 government forces.
Al-Sheikh did not identify “outlaw groups”. But in an apparent reference to the druse militias that seem linked to Wednesday clashes, he repeated three times that “weapons should be in the hands of the state”.
The new leaders of Syria have fought to integrate the complex network of armed groups operating across the country in the new state apparatus. Many of the strongest druse militias are in negotiations with the government on their conditions for integration into the army.
Abu Hassan, a commander of Druse's militia in the Signiida Sweida Syrian city that passes from a name, painted a more left picture of the government forces that Mr.-Sheikh had said that he had been involved, saying that foreign fighters and other extremist militants nominally affiliated with the government had been involved in the attacks on the areas of druse. Abu Hassan also suggested that the audio clip had been a false pretext for violence, saying that it was really about fixing the old scores in the aftermath of the civil war of almost 14 years of Syria.
The state press agency, healthy, said that armed armed men – an evident reference to Druse fighters – had attacked checkpoints and vehicles on Wednesday night belonging to the government forces to Ashrafieh Sahnaya.
An official of the Ministry of the Interior called the armed men who attacked the “criminal” forces of the government and I swore that the government would go back “with an iron fist”, according to Sana.
The first aerial attack of Israel on Wednesday was described as an warning against “an extremist group” that is preparing to attack Druses, according to a joint declaration by the office of the Israeli Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense.
Israel offered to protect druse in Syria if they had attacked in the midst of the tumultuous transition of power in the country. Many Syrian druses have rejected this offer, however, denouncing what the potentially destructive foreign interference consider.
Syria is a mainly Sunni Muslim nation, while druses are a religious group that practices a secret religion rooted in Islam.
The rebels who ousted Al-Assad were led by a Sunni Islamist group once linked to Al Qaeda. Now they manage the government and national military.
Since Mr. Al-Assad was expelled, Israel has carried out numerous raids in Syria, breaking into the villages, launching hundreds of air attacks and destroying military outposts. Israel says that he wants to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of hostile groups and that he does not want enemy forces to combine close to his borders.
Seventy violence has affected Syria several times from the expulsion of Mr. Al-Assad, feeding the fears between many minority groups that the new leaders of the country marginalize them or target them.
Last month, a wave of sectarian murders spread in the coastal region of Syria, home of the country's Alawites, the minority group to which the Assad family belongs.