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The visitors were “shooting from vehicles with half their bodies outside. Our houses have bullet holes on the balconies,” a local resident said.
“Troops have been reinforced and wanted suspects have been apprehended.”
“Instead of merely reacting to developments, we now see an Israel that actively shapes events,” Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak tells JNS.
The massacre of Alawites highlights the danger of radical Islam’s rise to power, Israeli officials and analysts warn.
“It is both necessary and the right thing to do to assist other minorities in a region where we will always be a minority ourselves,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
Israel has warned al-Sharaa’s Damascus government against harming Syria’s Druze community.
“We will strengthen ties with the residents of the region.”
The Israel Police deployed around 3,000 personnel, including Border Police officers, in Jerusalem for the first Friday of Ramadan.
In a March 5 statement, the Vatican said the 88-year-old pontiff “remained stable.”
Security will be tightened to “prevent attempts by hostile elements to exploit the month for incitement, disorder, terrorism or any form of violence.”
Housing, education issues to be addressed.
Putting it on is “like the face of Judaism,” said Sammy Seokar, 16, an 11th-grader from Boynton Beach, Fla.
