Israel and Syria
Israel claims that it is motivated to act in defence of Syria’s Druze due to cross-border kinship ties.” However, she added: “It is far from clear that these strikes make Israel safer or protect the Druze community – who risk domestic backlash for being seen as Israel’s proxies.” What is clear, she said, was that Damascus was still struggling to assert control and ensure stability across all of Syria and that Israeli strikes on the country “risk undermining Syria’s already deeply fragile stability”.
