Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the regime’s military to prepare for potential further military aggression against Syria, claiming that the Druze population in the city of Jaramana, near the Syrian capital Damascus, is “under threat,” Press TV reported.
In a statement, Netanyahu and the regime’s minister for military affairs Israel Katz warned of Israeli “retaliation” if the Druze community was “harmed,” pledging “full support” for them inside Syria.
Shortly after the threats, local Syrian sources reported hearing explosions in Jaramana, with a reporter for the new Syrian administration’s broadcasting service alleging taking place of clashes around the al-Karama Square in the city.
According to Lt. Col. Hossam Al-Tahhan, Damascus countryside’s “Security Chief,” an incident at a Jaramana checkpoint escalated when the administration’s military forces were reportedly “stopped, disarmed, beaten, and fired upon.”
One soldier was killed, while another was wounded and briefly taken captive, he added.
Armed militants later stormed the local police station, seizing weapons and expelling officers, he claimed, saying mediation efforts eventually led to the captive’s release.
It, however, was not immediately clear whether the explosion had been caused by the purported clashes or had resulted from a staged attack against the city.
Netanyahu’s threats come amid broader Israeli aggression against Syria.
In 2011, the Israeli regime began backing up Takfiri terrorist groups and intensifying its deadly aggression against Syria as a means of trying to oust the Arab country’s democratically-elected government of Bashar al-Assad, which had consistently proven an opponent of Tel Aviv’s regional aggression.
Late last year, the regime ramped up its attacks across the Syrian territory even further, claiming that it sought to prevent violence inside Syria from spilling over into the occupied territories.
Israeli forces even entered the United Nations-demarcated buffer zone between Syria and the occupied Palestinian territories in the country’s Tel Aviv-occupied Golan Heights in a move that was condemned by the UN.
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