Minister says Israel ‘will make sure that nobody hurts the Druze in Syria’

Jerusalem Affairs Minister Meir Porush tells the crowd gathered in the Hurfeish military cemetery for Memorial Day that the government knows about the “terrible situation in Syria,” and “we will make sure that nobody hurts the Druze in Syria.”

His comments come as dozens of Druze block roads in northern Israel, calling on Jerusalem to intervene in Syria amid reports of Druze being killed in sectarian clashes in Syria.

“I call on Israel to act immediately to prevent a massacre in Druze communities near Damascus,” says Sheikh Muafak Tarif, the head of the community in Israel.

The Druze, Porush says, “give so much to the nation. We know that the government can do more to strengthen the Druze community.”

“We know the covenant between the Druze and Jews is a covenant of life,” he says.