Why Is Israel Intervening in Southern Syria?

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00:00What is your understanding of what Israel is seeking to achieve in southern Syria?

00:05Israel is staging a humanitarian intervention here to protect the Druze minority in Syria.

00:11Israelis have been horrified in recent days to see images of Druze people being attacked by regime forces in Syria,

00:18including reports, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, of 21 extrajudicial executions.

00:25Now, Israel is a Jewish state, but it has a big Druze minority.

00:28They're a well-integrated part of society, and they're begging the government to do something to save their brothers across the border.

00:35In fact, we've seen hundreds of Druze men breaking into Syria to go and fight on behalf of their Druze brethren.

00:42So Israel here is trying to tell Jelani, back off.

00:46The Druze must be protected, and they're under our protection.

00:49We won't allow you to attack them.