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We hope this war will end and this massacre will be the last one in this devastating war,
said Sheikh Salim Abu Jabal There's rivalry. Who is the real voice of the Druze community - is it the Israeli Druze who are integrated in Israel and serve in the army, or is it the Lebanese who have been taking a stance against Israel, specifically Jumblatt who is a historic leader of the Druze,
said Mohanad Hage Ali of the Carnegie Middle East Center Many Druze feel angry and do not want to be fuel in this war for any side,
A Jewish child murdered on the Gaza border on Oct. 7 and a Druze child murdered on the Golan Heights are the same. These are our children,
Gallant said during a visit to Majdal Shams The incident is being exploited by all sides,
said Lubna Al Bassit, an anti-Assad activist in Sweida, the Druze capital of Syria, who reflects the views of Druze who blame Iran and Hezbollah It was a shock because not once in the last nine months, even when the sirens were sounding, did we feel we were being targeted,
Hezbollah has evacuated some positions in the south and in the Bekaa valley that it thinks could be a target for Israel,
the source close to the group told AFP, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media The State of Israel won’t and can’t let this go by. Our response will yet come, and it will be harsh,
Netanyahu said on Monday while visiting the site of the attack, the town of Majdal Shams Nobody wants a broader war, and I’m confident that we’ll be able to avoid such an outcome,
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in a call with reporters There must be a retaliation,
said Amos Yadlin, a retired air force general and former chief of military intelligence, was quoted by Bloomberg as saying It's an old, unguided artillery rocket,
said Shaan Sheikh, deputy director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). It's something to lob large amounts of explosives over relatively short distance,
When you plan military operations like this, there's always a chance for error,
We both agreed that widening of conflict in the region is in nobody’s interest,
I don’t think the Israeli prime minister is at this point interested in an all-out war, partly because there are uncontrollable, unpredictable consequences to a larger war in Lebanon, involving Hezbollah. Because eventually if it escalates, it will involve Iran as well,
There is concern that the airport could be a target,
said Khodr from the airport The question is – will [Israel] hit Lebanon’s infrastructure [in response] or will they hit a Hezbollah target?”
We underscore the need to prevent the conflict from escalating and spilling over in the region,
The Majdal Shams strike constituted the type of incident that many experts have long assessed might tip the balance from relatively limited Israel-Hezbollah cross-border exchanges to devastating all-out conflict,
said security analysts at the New York-based Soufan Group Everything that happened last week in Washington didn’t change a thing. We had had hope that the big hullabaloo surrounding the speech in Congress would produce something,