The US says “specific steps” agreed to stop violence in Syria after Israeli hit Damascus

Israeli military struck the Syrian Defense Ministry in Damascus, and government forces in southern Syria on Wednesday, as the death sectarian fights in the predominantly Swayido province continued on the fourth day.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces “are working to save our brothers and eliminate the gangs of the regime.” The Syrian Foreign Ministry has accused Israel of “insidious aggression”.

More than 300 people were reportedly killed on Sunday, when clashes between Bedouin’s and Bedouin tribes exploded.

US Secretary of State Mark Rubio said he was “very worried” about violence in the south, but believed it would end in a few hours.

“We agreed with the specific steps that will give this disturbing and terrible situation tonight,” he wrote on X on Wednesday night.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry said the country “welcomes the efforts made by the US and Arabian parties to” resolve the current crisis “peacefully.

Israel has not yet commented on the ceasefire.

Syrian troops began to leave Sveveida, Syria’s state news agency reports.

It states that the military is leaving the city as part of an agreement between the Syrian government and the religious leaders of Swidza after “completing the pursuit of groups by law”.

The Israeli military began to hit the Syrian security forces and their weapons on Monday after they were located in Swayida for the first time after the rebels under the leadership of Sunni overthrew President Bashar al -Assad.

Minoritarian groups, including “rubble” – the religion of which is a branch of Shiite Islam with its own unique identity and beliefs – suspicious of the temporary president Ahmed Al -Sharaa and his government, despite the fact that he is promised to defend them.

Over the past eight months, their fears have intensified by several outbreaks of sectarian violence, including one in May, which reported dozens were killed in clashes between rubble, security forces and Islamist fighters in Damascus and Sovej.

On the eve of the fighting, the government reached an agreement with rubble to hire local security forces in the province of Swida from their ranks.

Netanyahu said he was seeking to prevent rubble in Syria because of their deep ties with those who live in Israel and Israeli heights of Galan.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X on Wednesday that “warnings in Damascus” ended and that the Israeli military “continues to act in Suuida to destroy the forces that have attacked the rubble until they abandon full rejection.”

He later posted that “painful blows began” over the video showing TV presenter sinks under the table on the camera when Israeli air ticket got to the nearest entrance to the Syrian Ministry of Defense On the Square of Umayad, in the central Damascus.

Fadi al Haler, London Syrian director, who visits Damascus, said he was near when he heard Israeli fighters approach.

“The faces of the people were so afraid. Everyone started running (in) the streets. Nobody knew where to go. Suddenly, air strikes began, focusing on some of the most crowded areas, including the Ministry of Defense,” he said the BBC.

The Israeli military said it also impressed the “military goal in the area” of the presidential palace in the capital, as well as armored vehicles loaded with heavy machine guns and weapons on the way to Soveida, as well as the dismissal and shelter of weapons in South Syria.

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that strikes aimed at government agencies and civilian institutions in Damascus and Soveje, and killed “several innocent civilians”.

“This high -targeted policy pursued by an Israeli person is part of the focus, which is being incurred by the tensions, to distribute chaos and to undermine safety and stability in Syria, is a brazen violation of the United Nations and international humanitarian law,” he added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the British monitoring group, meanwhile, reports that the humanitarian situation in the city of Suwida quickly deteriorated.

He referred to the sources, saying that there were clashes in several parts of the city, and that the tanks attacked a national hospital, which caused panic among the victims of fighting. They also said there was an acute lack of water and medical materials.

Later, the Syrian Ministry of Health said government forces entered the hospital and discovered “dozens of bodies” after “quit from the canceled groups”, the official Sana agency reports.

The man, nicknamed Hos, told the BBC that he was in the city center of Swida and witnessed a civilian population who came under fire from artillery and snipers.

“I lost my neighbor on the street today. One of the snipers shot him. We tried (get) ambulance (take) him to the hospital, but we couldn’t,” he said.

Sohr says more than 300 people have been killed in Sveveida’s Sunday.

According to the group, they include 69 rubble militants and 40 civilians, 27 of whom were killed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense.

At least 165 members of government forces and 18 militants from tribal Bedouins were also killed in contractions, and 10 members of state forces were killed in Israeli.

BBC is unable to check the shame loss numbers.

It is said that the fighting between Beduin’s tribes and rubble police in Soveje were caused by the abduction of the rubble on the highway to Damascus last Friday.

On Sunday, the armed fighters of rubble were surrounded, and then seized the neighborhood of Swida, who lives Bedouin. Soon, the skirmishes spread to other parts of the Suwida province, and the tribesmen have reported attacks on nearby cities and villages of Druz.

Later, the Syrian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that its forces and forces of the Ministry of Defense will intervene and impose an order, saying that “dangerous escalation comes in the light of the absence of relevant official institutions.”

Earlier this year, the Israeli Prime Minister demanded the complete demilitarization of Svewida and two more southern provinces. He said that Israel saw the Islamist group of President Sharaa, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a threat. The HTS-Branch Branch of Al-Qaeda, which is still appointed by the UN and UK terrorist organization, but is no longer in the US.

The Israeli military has already held hundreds of strikes on Syria to destroy the country’s military assets after the fall of Assad.

And he sent troops into a non -working demilitarized buffer zone between the Galans and Syria, as well as by several surrounding areas and the Harmon summit.