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Top IDF general, officials visited Syria to meet Druze leaders – report
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, Head of Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) arrives to the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for court hearing on the entering of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, July 21, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, who heads the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories, was in Syrian territory recently to meet leaders of the Druze community, Army Radio reports.
He was joined by other officials and IDF officers to discuss the community’s humanitarian and security needs, according to the report.
On Friday night, an Israeli Air Force helicopter ferried humanitarian aid to the Sweida area of southern Syria. The delivery came amid Israeli warnings to Syria’s new Islamist rulers not to harm their country’s Druze minority following deadly sectarian clashes.
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