Damascus rejects Israeli politicisation of Syria’s Druze after Netanyahu’s brief call with al-Sharaa

Damascus has rejected attempts to draw the Druze community in Sweida into Israeli politics, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he had held a sharp phone call with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, claiming that he had stopped the bloodshed in the area. A Syrian government official said in a statement carried by the state-run SANA news agency on Thursday that the Druze community in Sweida province has been and will remain an integral part of Syria’s national fabric and rejected any attempt to politicise it or involve it in Israeli propaganda and election campaigns. The official said Israel had played a major planned role in undermining civil peace in Sweida in July last year by arming an outlawed […]