IDF Brigadier General (ret.) Amal As’ad, an Israeli Druze public figure, accuses Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa of wanting to “eliminate the Druze” amid deadly clashes in the southern Syrian city of Sweida.
Speaking to Channel 12, As’ad describes the attacks on Druze in Sweida as “just like on October 7,” claiming that girls as young as five have been raped and pregnant women have been slaughtered.
He denounces Druze residents of Israel who crossed the border into Syria today, but says that Israel should have done more to help their community. He also criticizes efforts to make peace with the new regime in Syria.
“Was it possible to make peace with Sinwar? With Nasrallah?” he says, charging that the current regime in Syria is “way worse” than the former Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.
He urges Israel to do more, including creating a corridor to allow the elderly, women, and children to escape Sweida, establishing a humanitarian tent city as a refuge for civilians, and allowing Druze youth to fight the Syrian regime.
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