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The Worldwide Fellowship of Christians and Jews swiftly mobilized its sources in July to help persecuted Syrian Druze and Christians going through what some have referred to as a genocide carried out by jihadists in southern Syria.
Syrian-backed forces, together with jihadist fighters, launched assaults towards Syrian Druze within the southern a part of the nation, ensuing within the murders of at the least 1,400 individuals, together with a 35-year-old Syrian American from Oklahoma, Hosam Saraya, who was visiting household in Syria.
“As soon as we noticed what was occurring in Sweida, we couldn’t flip a blind eye to it.” Worldwide Fellowship of Christians and Jews President and World CEO Yael Eckstein instructed Fox Information Digital.
Syrian safety forces stroll collectively alongside a avenue after clashes between Syrian authorities troops and native Druze fighters resumed within the southern Druze metropolis of Sweida July 16, 2025. (Reuters/Karam al-Masri)
Her group, she famous, had by no means operated in Syria previous to this yr however stated her group “obtained an pressing name from a hospital from Sweida, they usually wanted fundamental medicines, surgical care, ICU medication and gear, first responder gear and masks for morgue employees.”
The Fellowship coordinated with the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) to ship medication and gear to Sweida. Eckstein stated her group equipped “retired Israeli ambulances to Syria so the locals can function them.”
The bulk Druze metropolis of Sweida was a focus of the siege executed by Syrian Islamists loyal to new President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, a former member of U.S.-designated terrorist actions, al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
In keeping with Christian Broadcasting Network, Christians have been additionally focused. Islamists reportedly murdered Khaled Mazhar, pastor of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church in Sweida, together with 11 members of the family. A further individual survived the bloodbath of Christians as a result of the Islamists thought she was useless.
The Worldwide Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Israel’s largest philanthropic group, despatched help to Syria’s Druze group amid persecution and assaults by Islamic militants. (The Worldwide Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
In July, Israel launched military strikes towards the largely Bedouin forces on their technique to the southern metropolis of Sweida to cease the bloodbath. Israel additionally attacked the Syrian Protection headquarters in Damascus to halt the bloodshed in Sweida. Eckstein added that at the least “26 Druze villages have been totally burned.”
Since Fox Information Digital’s interview with Eckstein, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported at “least 30 villages have been broken by arson and destruction.”
Eckstein stated the Fellowship first offered help in Syria in April when Druze in Syria have been focused and killed.
“Once we offered 1.500 meals packing containers to the Druze inside 13 kilometers of Israel’s borders after the bloodbath in April, two days later Islamists burned packing containers of the Fellowship,” Eckstein sid.
Israel and Syria wouldn’t have diplomatic relations. Syria is taken into account an enemy state as a result of it has launched a number of wars towards Israel because the rebirth of the Jewish state in 1948.
Eckstein stated the Fellowship is “working in enemy territory, and Jews and Christians are offering life-saving help. Islamists don’t prefer it. We want to see that it’s within the Syrian authorities’s pursuits to obtain help and hope that extra goodness can be dropped at Syria.
“Now, Jewish persons are standing with Christians who’re being persecuted in Syria. It’s actually vital to spotlight that this can be a case of fine versus evil and is not only restricted to Syria. It is necessary for Jews and Christians to face collectively relating to Judeo-Christian values that sanctify life.”
The Worldwide Fellowship of Christians and Jews delivered help to Druze, Christian and different minorities affected by current assaults. Vehicles entered by means of Israel’s border with Syria. (The Worldwide Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
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Safwan Marich of the Israeli Druze group runs the Fellowship’s Emergency Response Heart and instructed Fox Information Digital that, within the Sweida area, “tyhere is a genocide happening. This wants no additional clarification, particularly for the Jewish individuals.
“As soon as the residents of the abandoned village come again, they are going to perceive the magnitude of catastrophe. Girls have been kidnapped by jihads, and kids have been kidnapped and lacking.”
Marich has been involved together with his fellow Druze in Syria.
“This warfare is spiritual in essence,” he stated. “There’s a video of Daesh [Islamic State] going to one of many villages asking, ‘Are you a Druze or Sunni?’ And he answered that he’s Syrian. He requested him once more, so he answered Druze, and he was shot in the midst of the road. It’s apparent there’s a spiritual motivation behind this occasion.
“It is necessary for me to assist the Druze as a result of, firstly, I’m a Druze. The Druze persons are not aggressive and hostile, however they won’t sit idly by when they’re attacked. We have now within the Druze custom a commandment to assist our brothers. To come back to help of Druze group wherever it is perhaps on the earth.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not seen) and Syrian interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa maintain a press convention after their assembly on the Presidential Advanced in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (Mehmet Ali Ozcan/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)
Marich additionally famous he’s Israeli, and the opposite day a Druze officer was killed in Gaza. Twelve officers from the Druze group have been killed in Gaza because the warfare started.
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“They died defending Israel and the Jewish individuals. We have now an expectation that Israeli society will come by means of and stand by Druze group, and so we will defend our brothers in Syria. The state of Israel can not afford to have Daesh on its borders and within the Golan Heights.”
He pointed to the instance of Hamas on the border and its progress as a army hazard over time as a warning about radical Islamists gaining a foothold on the Syrian-Israeli border.
