17/7/2025–|Last update: 04:51 (Mecca time)
Syrian President Ahmed Al -Shara said in a speech at dawn today, Thursday, the announcement of the calm agreement in As -Suwayda that Israel sought to undermine cease-fire Were it not for American, Arab and Turkish mediation.
Al -Shara added in his speech that “the Israeli entity has been seeking since the fall of the defunct regime to transform our land into the land of conflict and dismantle our people,” stressing that “there is no place to implement the ambitions of others in our land and we will return For Syria Its prestige and we must prevail in the national interest. “
Regarding the Israeli bombing that affected Damascus and other areas in Syria yesterday, Wednesday, the Syrian President said, “We were between the option of war with Israel or giving way to elders Druze For the agreement, we chose to protect the homeland. “
In this context, he said, “We are not the one who fears the war, but we presented the interests of the people on chaos, and our optimal choice was to protect the unity of the country. The Syrian state intervened with all its institutions to stop the internal fighting in As -Suwayda and succeeded in controlling security.”
The Syrian President: Our people from the Druze are an essential part of the fabric of the homeland and their protection is a priority for us, and we were between the option of war with Israel or gave the way to the Druze elders to the agreement, so we chose to protect the homeland#Al -Jazeera – Syria #News pic.twitter.com/zUu4Lsiaih
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And about the agreement with the elders of Akl Druze communityAl -Shara said, “We decided to assign some local factions and sheikhs of reason to restore security, and our people from the Druze are an essential part of the fabric of the homeland and their protection is a priority for us.”
He stressed that “the Syrians with their long history rejected the forms of division, and we are the sons of this land and are able to overcome the attempts of the Israeli entity to tear us, as Syria is not a field of experiments of external conspiracies and the ambitions of others, and building a new Syria requires us to pay attention to our country.”
Israel – which declared “not giving up” the Druze and called for their protection – yesterday, Wednesday, a series of raids on sites in As -Suwayda and Damascus, where the Israeli Air Force targeted the General Staff Building, the Ministry of Defense and the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, and the Israeli Defense Minister announced Israel Katz The warning messages of Damascus ended and vowed what he called “painful strikes.”