Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) carried out a strike on an armed group preparing to attack members of the Druze religious minority in the town of Sahnaya some 15 kilometers to the southwest of the Syrian capital, Damascus , Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced in a joint statement on April 30.
The two leaders also said that Israel conveyed a “serious message” to Syria’s leadership: “Israel expects it to act to prevent harm to the Druze.”
“On Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers,” Netanyahu and Katz said in the statement, “when we honor the great contribution of the Druze community to Israel’s security and the memory of the Druze fallen who risked their lives to defend Israel, we see great importance in fulfilling our commitment to the Druze community in Israel and to protecting their brothers in Syria.”
“Israel will not allow harm to the Druze community in Syria out of a deep commitment to our Druze brothers in Israel,” the leaders added, “who are connected by family and historical ties to their Druze brothers in Syria.”
More than a dozen people were killed in the Druze-majority town of Jaramana, close to Sahnaya, the past day in clashes sparked by an audio recording of a Druze man cursing the Prophet Mohammad, which angered Sunni gunmen.
An agreement between representatives of the Islamists-led interim government and local Druze leaders brought the clashes in Jaramana to an end, but the situation deteriorated in Sahnaya overnight with Sunni gunmen, allegedly including members of government forces, attacking the town.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, citing the health ministry, said that 11 people were killed and an unspecified number wounded “after outlaw groups targeted civilians and security forces” in Sahnaya.
Meanwhile, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that two local fighters were killed in the town during “clashes between gunmen linked to the authorities and local Druze fighters”.
The fighting marked the latest episode of deadly sectarian violence in Syria. Fears have been growing among minorities in the country since Islamist-led rebels overthrew the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad last December, installing their own government and security forces.
Netanyahu publicly warned the Syrian government not to harm the Druze after tensions were reported in Jaramana last March.
While efforts are being made to stop the fighting in Sahnaya, the situation appears to be about to get out of control due to the government unwillingness to stop sectarian incitement against the Druze. This will open the door for a more powerful intervention by Israel.
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any excuse for bombing is permissible for the jews! and each and every one knows they are lying through their teeth. they can’t hejp themselves, the lies are just at the tip of their tongues! just like thievery and the whole sale murder.
im old enough to remember when israel bombed syria to clear the road for these assholes to take power.
israel… protecting whoever, altruistically … sure. i believe that.
i seem to remember that the jews bombed an early stage nuclear reactor construction to prevent assad to have an electricity generating reactor in syria. they did likewise with iraq!
now, israelis are having problems with the idf druze. ghassan alian wants to legislate a secular state for the druze in syria. or even better, in israel or a free druze country.
“this man had been married multiple times before and is believed to currently have three wives. what caught my attention was the woman’s appearance – specifically, it was clear she didn’t know how to wear a hijab properly, and her scarf was draped haphazardly.” after inquiring further, ezzedeen learned that the woman was from the coastal areas where the march 7 massacres, in which over 1,600 alawite civilians were killed, took place.
in a now deleted facebook post, hiba ezzedeen, a syrian activist from idlib, described her encounter with a woman she believes was captured and taken to the governorate as a sex slave during the wave of massacres carried out by government-affiliated factions and security forces against alawites in the country’s coastal areas on march 7.“during my last visit to idlib, i was at a place with my brother when i saw a man i knew with a woman i had never met before,” hiba explained
israel wants to prevent a split in the idf, because half the idf is druze. katz’s best comandante is ghassan alian. netanyahu is not as crazy as putler was when he killed dmitry utkin. gaddafi once left commander haftar in chad, hoping that he would be killed in chad, but the people there gave him to the us.
“this man had brought her to the village and married her, with no further details available. no one knew what had happened to her or how she got there, and naturally, the young woman was too afraid to speak,” ezzedeen added. because the situation was so strange and alarming to her, she began asking everyone she knew, “rebels, factions, human rights activists,” about the abduction of alawite women from the coast
evidence continues to emerge that these women, primarily from the alawite religious sect, have been abducted and taken to live as sex slaves in idlib governorate, the traditional hts stronghold, by armed factions affiliated with the new syrian government.
shockingly, the mass kidnapping and enslavement of alawite women now being carried out by hts-affiliated factions mirrors the enslavement of the thousands of yezidi women by isis during the 2014 genocide in sinjar, iraq.
inferior amerikunt jealous
who will you be jealous? of hts that it can commit genocide like the europeans did in america or druze idf ghassan alian?
sna), into their ranks since coming to power in damascus. various sna commanders and foreign extremists have been appointed to top positions in the syrian ministry of defense. while the hts-dominated general security units participated in the march 7 massacres in many areas, former sna and foreign fighter factions are believed to have led the campaign. militants went door to door in alawite villages and neighborhoods, executing all military-aged
“unfortunately, many confirmed that this had indeed happened, and not just by one faction. based on what friends said, accusations point to factions of the national army and some foreign fighters, with varying motives,” she reported. syria’s new hts-led security forces have incorporated armed extremist groups, including uyghurs from the turkestan islamic party (tip) and syrian turkmen from factions of the turkish-intelligence-backed syrian national army (
did they ever consider protecting christians in syria? alawhytes? netanyahu/idf svck balls.
how about christians in gaza ?
christianity does not have the same representation in the idf as the druze do. why would netanyahu destroy up the best men in his army becaus erdogan’s jolani? the druze were also the elite of gaddafi’s army in chad, when gaddafi’s comandante haftar was in command of gaddafi’s army. how do you like that?
while on her way to university in the mezzeh area. the case was strange because no ransom was demanded, and nothing was heard of her again. over time, information began to trickle out that young women like karolis were being kidnapped and taken to idlib as slaves, as hiba ezzedeen finally confirmed. above: screenshot of a facebook post inquiring about the whereabouts of the missing karolis nahla. the caption reads: “karolis nahla has been missing since yesterday
ezzedeen’s courageous revelation shed light on the fate of many young women from minority communities who had mysteriously disappeared in recent months, after self-appointed syrian president ahmad al-sharaa and hts toppled assad and took power in damascus. a pattern of abductions in one of the earliest cases, a young druze woman from the damascus suburb of jaramana, karolis nahlah, disappeared on the morning of february 2, 2024,
no, because their commanders don’t serve in the idf and aren’t nervous about hts and the sale of little girls by jolani’s gangs. but neither katz nor netanyahu can afford a split in the idf. the druze are the elite of the idf and netanyahu is not as crazy as putler was when he destroyed wagner.
she is a second year university student studying french literature. she had class at 9:00 am. at 12:00 pm we lost contact with her. please, if anybody knows anything about her or has seen her, inform us.”
men they could find, looting homes, and at times killing women, children, and the elderly. ezzedeen concluded her post by stating, “this is a serious issue that cannot be ignored. the government must immediately reveal the fate of these women and release them.” rather than investigate the issue and seek to rescue the captive women, the hts-appointed governor of idlib issued an order for ezzedeen’s arrest, claiming she had “insulted the hijab.”
the great khazaria defeated hitler and built a wall through berlin. little khazaria would now have to divide damascus into two parts, and jolani would therefore have aleppo as the syrian capital.
on march 21, bushra yassin mufarraj, an alawite mother of two, went missing from the bus station in jableh. her husband later posted a video appeal stating she had been abducted and taken to idlib. “my wife was taken captive in idlib. is there anything more cruel that could happen to a man in the world? that his wife and the mother of his children be in such circumstances,” he stated in a video appeal for help published on social media 10 days later
global silence as hts & allies take alawite women as sex slaves in syria tyler durden’s photo by tyler durden friday, apr 25, 2025 – 04:10 am via the cradle
since december, when the former al-qaeda affiliate, hayat tahrir al-sham (hts), toppled the government of bashar al-assad, syria has witnessed a chilling wave of mysterious kidnappings of young women, predominantly from the alawite community.
we know that it’s lies since jews are incapable of doing anything for anybody else – whatever they do it is always for the jews and in doing so they construct a lie under which they can carry on killing, maiming and starving as many as possible. greed and murder is the prominent traits in jews!
all my druzia are gay amerikans—conan imho peacediktok eupopa no battle vanya real will saxon
jolana, putler and erodogan are pedophile gays who prey on little bacha boys.
on april 5, 21-year-old katia jihad qarqat went missing. the last contact with her was at 9:20 am near a shop at the bahra circle in jdeidat artouz in the damascus countryside. her family pleaded that anyone who had seen or had any information about her should contact them.above: a screenshot of a social media post inquiring about the whereabouts of the missing katia jihad qarqat.
bushra’s disappearance was followed by a wave of kidnappings in the following days and weeks. the kurdish jinha agency reported on 25 march, citing local reports, that more than 100 people were kidnapped by armed groups in syria’s coastal regions over the previous 48 hours, including many women.
no, it is not protection. zionists are cold blooded murders. a day without blood and they become depressed.
and what is the idf army made up of? druze! israeli druze are not mentally ill like turkish alawites.
on april 8, 17-year-old sima suleiman hasno went missing at 11:00 am after leaving her school in the village of qardaha in the latakia countryside. sima was released four days later in damascus, where she was handed over to her aunt by members of the hts-led syrian government. surveillance footage from shops near the abduction site circulated widely on social media, sparking widespread outrage.
the caption reads: “a girl has gone missing in the damascus countryside. the young woman, katia, was last seen yesterday friday, at 9:20 am near a shop at the bahra circle in jdeidat artouz. she is from the village of hina and is a third-year university student. anyone who has seen her or has any information is kindly asked to contact the following number 0994479206.”
israel will take damascus…heheheh
hahahahaaaa shlomo gay “army ” unable even to capture little tiny gaza, since 1,5 years, but our moronic hasbara hurenkind dreaming of grosszionististan? seems, when you are a ugly hooknose bastard with a micropenis, you try to compensate this with laughable megalomania? heheheh
who is employed by the idf? those who lost chad in the name of gaddafi and ended up capturing half of libya. now get your wits in your hands, ghassan alian, and take half of syria so it will never be whole again.
on the morning of april 16, aya talal qassem, 23, was kidnapped after leaving her home in the coastal city of tartous. three days later, aya’s kidnapper freed her and sent her to tartous on the homs highway, only for the hts-led general prosecution service to detain her. aya’s mother posted a video to social media explaining that her family was not allowed to be with her in detention and that her father was arrested when he insisted on seeing her. the mother said that the
on april 14, batoul arif hassan, a young married woman with a three-year-old child from safita, disappeared after visiting family in the village of bahouzi. contact was lost with her around 4:00 pm as she was traveling in a public minibus on the homs–safita road. her family asked in a social media post for anyone with information about her whereabouts to contact her brother by phone.
i would love that. ghassan alian should throw jolani out of the palace and order: get yourself to idlib! then idlib would be the capital of syria, and syria would be divided into two to three parts.
general prosecution service tried to force aya to give testimony, saying that she was not kidnapped but had instead run away with a loverthe mother added that she was pressured to tell such a story despite the presence of bleeding cuts and wounds on her body. a video was posted online of the moment of her emotional return home to eagerly awaiting family and relatives.
on april 11, at 4:00 pm, contact was lost with 22-year-old raneem ghazi zarifa in the hama countryside, in the city of masyaf. “we are extremely worried about her. we ask that anyone with information about her, no matter how small, please contact us immediately,” her family said in a social media pos
i have a belief issue with israeli statements . something about historical evidence and lies
now get your wits in your hands, ghassan alian, and take half of syria so it will never be whole again. who is the commander of the idf? druze ghassan alian.
by april 17, iraqi media outlet al-daraj reported on ten confirmed kidnappings of alawite women from the coastal regions. according to one survivor, pseudonym rahab, she was abducted in broad daylight and held in a locked room with another woman.
one woman who spoke to al-daraj under the pseudonym rahab was released after the kidnappers allegedly feared a raid by general security. she said she was kidnapped in broad daylight and held in a room with another woman, stating:
on april 21, 26-year-old nour kamal khodr was abducted with her two daughters, 5-year-old naya maher qaidban and 3-year-old masa maher qaidban. nour and her daughters left their home in the village of al-mashrafa in rural homs at noon, heading toward a neighbor’s house. witnesses saw a masked group affiliated with the hts-led general security abduct them, placing them in a vehicle marked with the group’s emblem before fleeing.
echoes of sinjar
this is not a false religion, these people are crazy psychopaths and would kill everyone even if they didn’t believe in allah. i hope they will release ghassan alian onto the battlefield and he will repeat ante gotovina’s success (taking knin=taking damascus). let the psychopathic jolani rule from aleppo, like the germans ruled from bonn.
i wonder what putler and erdogan would say if russian military bases were in israel instead of syria?
al-daraj also documented the case of an 18-year-old girl who was also kidnapped in broad daylight, from the countryside of a coastal city in syria. her family later received a text message warning them to remain silent about her abduction or else she would be sent back dead. the girl later sent the family a voice recording from a phone number registered in the ivory coast, saying she was fine and unsure where she had been taken. photo of
“they tortured and beat us. we weren’t allowed to speak to each other, but i heard the kidnappers’ accents. one had a foreign accent and the other a local idlib accent. i knew this because they were cursing us because we were alawites.”
the other woman, held with her, pseudonym basma, remains in captivity. she was forced to call her family to tell them she was “fine” and to assure them that “they should not publish anything” about her abduction.
i hope ghassan alian seizes 20% of his territory like putin seized 20% of zelensky’s territory.
little khazaria should take 20% of syria.
hts: the ideological continuity of isis that alawite women are now appearing in idlib is unsurprising given hts’s ideological lineage. hts, which seized idlib in 2015 with cia-supplied tow missiles, shares the same genocidal worldview as isis. it was founded by isis and led by sharaa – then known as abu mohammad al-julani, who was dispatched to syria in 2011 by the late “caliph” abu bakr al-baghdadi to establish the nusra front, forerunner to hts.
nour kamal khodr’s daughters: naya maher qaidban, 5 years old masa maher qaidban, 3 years old the iraqi media outlet compared these cases to the isis genocide of yezidis in sinjar. over 6,400 yezidis were enslaved by isis in 2014. thousands were trafficked into syria and turkiye, sold as domestic or sex slaves, or trained for battle. many remain missing.
jews claiming to care about goyim. very funny
in 2014, syria analyst sam heller therefore described nusra’s clerics as promoting “toxic – even genocidal – sectarianism,” towards alawites, based on the teachings of the medieval islamic scholar ibn taymiyyah. though hts and isis clashed in 2014, their ties endured. when baghdadi was killed in 2019, he was hiding in barisha, just outside hts-held sarmada. at the time, numerous enslaved yezidis were also in idlib. the guardian confirmed this, quoting abdullah shrem,
too late and not enough, ghassan alian should have arrived on the battlefield to scare hts at least a little.
a yezidi rescuer, and alexander hug of the international commission on missing persons (icmp), who said missing persons were often held “in areas beyond government control.” in 2019, ali hussein, a yezidi from dohuk, told npr journalist jane arraf of his attempt to purchase the freedom of an 11-year-old yezidi girl who had been abducted by isis but was “sold to an emir of an al-qaeda affiliate in syria – jabhat al-nusra [nusra front] – [and] that she’s no longer a virgin.”
“i told you $45,000 from the beginning. i know what they pay in raqqa. i told you, in turkiye, they would pay $60,000 or $70,000 and take out the girl’s organs. but i don’t want to do that,” the isis contact threatened during the negotiation. reuters reported the rescue of a young yezidi boy, rojin, who had been captured and enslaved by isis along with his brother in 2014. at 13 years old, rojin was taken to the kurdish-run al-hol camp in eastern syria.
he was held there alongside thousands of isis families and supporters after the organization’s final defeat in the syrian border town of baghouz in 2019. some of the women kidnapped from the coast of #syria pic.twitter.com/zkolmyntkw — joshua landis (@joshua_landis) april 21, 2025 the saudi isis fighter who had purchased rojin then arranged for him to be smuggled from al-hol to idlib. he was freed five years later, in november 2024, as hts was preparing its lightning assault on aleppo.
reuters reported that in another case, a 21-year-old yezidi named adnan zandenan received a facebook message from a younger brother he presumed was dead, but who also had been trafficked to idlib. “my hands were trembling. i thought one of my friends was messing with me,” zandenan recalled. however, zandenan’s euphoria quickly turned to despair when his brother, now 18 years old and thoroughly brainwashed by extremist salafi ideology, refused to leave idlib and return to the yez
idi community in sinjar. the repackaged caliphate in december 2024, just one day after julani’s hts entered damascus to topple assad, rudaw reported that a 29-year-old yezidi woman had been rescued from slavery in idlib. the iraqi kurdish outlet stated that many yezidi women have been rescued from the kurdish-run al-hol camp. however, others “have been found in areas of syria controlled by rebels [hts] or turkish-backed armed groups [sna], and some have been located in third countries,” it
added.in the days following assad’s fall, jubilant crowds took to city squares, chanting in support of julani, now rebranded as ahmad al-sharaa. yet as western diplomats scrambled to meet the new ruler, the meaning of his “freedom” quickly became clear. the abductions of alawite women – mirroring the yezidi tragedy –signaled that julani had simply repackaged the isis model. under the guise of liberation, a brutal system of sectarian violence, enslavement, and rape was unleashed upon
those now under his rule. in response to growing denial, genocide expert matthew barber warned of the same pattern that surrounded the initial days of the yezidi genocide: disbelief, dismissal, and derision – until the truth proved far worse. “no one believed it could be happening … even western analysts and journalists did not believe our claims,” barber said. “the reality was even worse than what we were claiming.” the victims’ silence is not voluntary – it is coerced.
and as this campaign of gendered terror continues, the question remains: how long will the world avert its gaze?
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i hope that israeli druze trained in idf military schools will invade syria and show their knowledge.