The Druze, Damascus and the IDF: What's happening in Syria, and why did Israel intervene?

After days of deadly clashes, a fragile cease-fire has been reached between Syria's Druze minority in the south of the country and the Al-Sharaa government in Damascus. Over the last few days, clashes in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida have claimed more than 500 lives, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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