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“All factions must immediately lay down their arms,” said Ambassador Thomas Barrack.
Washington “will certainly insist that those who carry out acts of terror and violence in Taybeh—or anywhere—be found and be prosecuted,” said the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
At least 718 people have been killed since sectarian violence erupted.
The deputy Israeli envoy said the Jewish state has “an unwavering moral obligation to safeguard the Druze population, with whom we share deep historic and national bonds.”
The pontiff presses for renewed talks after Israeli shell hits church.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar demands Damascus be held accountable for the violence in Suweida.
“Southern Syria must be demilitarized, and we will not allow harm to come to the Druze,” Israel’s defense minister told the Texas senator.
“We will not allow military forces to move south of Damascus, and we will not allow harm to come to the Druze in Jabal al-Druze,” the prime minister said.
According to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the injured included Argentine citizen Father Gabriel Romanelli.
The wooden prayer hall was erected in Tomsk by Jews who’d been taken as children and forcefully conscripted to the Czar’s army for 20 years.
The U.S. secretary of state said the agreed-upon steps will “require all parties to deliver on the commitments they have made.”
As the Israeli Air Force conducts strikes in southern Syria, a military official says, “The more the Syrian regime has intervened, the worse it looks.”
