(16 Jul 2025)
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Jerusalem – 16 July 2025
1. Various of Druze community members in Israel protesting outside U.S. embassy in Jerusalem
2. Various of protesters holding banners reading (English and Hebrew) "Sweida is bleeding, don’t stay silent."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Raed Mansur, Druze resident of Israel:
"We are here in front of the American Embassy in Jerusalem, and it’s the time to talk directly to the American administration saying that it’s not a business, it’s not a deal. You cannot make a deal with a person (Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa) that is a killer, that what he knows is only to kill people, and to kill people that are different than him."
4. Sign reading (English, Arabic, Hebrew) "U.S. Embassy"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Raed Mansur, Druze resident of Israel:
"President (Donald) Trump has to do it now. A lot of people are killed. There is no sanction. This man is going free. And he is controlling a country, big country, controlling people, controlling money, controlling army. And it is unbelievable."
6. Wide of protest
7. Mid of security
8. Protesters with security in the background
STORYLINE:
Members of Israel’s Druze community gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday to urge the Trump administration to cut ties with Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa following clashes between Syrian government forces and the religious minority.
"President Trump has to do it now. A lot of people are killed. There is no sanction. This man is going free," said Raed Mansur, a Druze resident of Israel protesting outside the embassy. "It is unbelievable."
The latest escalation in Syria began with tit-for-tat kidnappings and attacks between local Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze armed factions in the southern province.
Government forces that intervened to restore order then clashed with the Druze.
The escalating violence appears to be the most serious threat yet to the ability of Syria’s new rulers to consolidate control of the country after a rebel offensive led by Islamist insurgent groups ousted longtime despotic leader, Bashar Assad, in December, bringing an end to a nearly 14-year civil war.
The new primarily Sunni Muslim authorities have faced suspicion from religious and ethnic minorities, especially after clashes between government forces and pro-Assad armed groups in March spiraled into sectarian revenge attacks.
Hundreds of civilians from the Alawite religious minority, to which Assad belongs, were killed.
AP video by Moshe Edri
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