Syrian Bedouin fighters mount new offensive in Sweida against Druze fighters despite truce

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00:00Let's bring in Noga Tarnopolsky, our correspondent in Jerusalem, for more on this.

00:03Noga, good evening to you.

00:04I understand a Druze mayor has evidence of atrocities against his people.

00:09What can you tell us about this?

00:14Yes, there was an extremely dramatic statement made just about an hour and a half ago

00:20from Dolan Abu Saleh, who is the mayor of Majd al-Shams,

00:24the largest Druze city on the Israeli side of the Golan.

00:27And he repeats out loud and in open what we've been hearing from Israeli Druze leadership all day long,

00:36which is that they're in possession of videos of simple atrocities,

00:41that barbarities are being committed against, still committed right now,

00:45against Druze communities in southwest Syria and not only there,

00:50and demanding, really in a bone-chilling way, I have to say,

00:55that the Israeli army escalate its involvement, is what he said.

01:00He said that babies are being murdered, entire families are being wiped out, girls are being raped.

01:07And his top aide, Adam Brick, shared with me that they have evidence of everything

01:14that this mayor discussed in his statement.

01:18There has not yet been any response from the Israeli government,

01:21but there is really an immense amount of tension within Israel

01:25about what appears to be kind of crimes that remind all Israelis of October 7th,

01:32as the mayor, by the way, explicitly reminded everyone,

01:36just across the border in Syria,

01:38and in some cases to close relatives of Israeli citizens.

01:43No good for the moment. Thank you very much indeed.

01:45We're coming back.

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