By bnm Tel Aviv bureau Israel has permitted injured Syrian Druze to enter its territory for medical treatment, as the minority continues to fight against the new Damascus government, i24 reported on May 1.

Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against “an extremist group” that attacked members of the Druze community, following through on a promise to defend the minority group as deadly sectarian violence spread near Damascus on Wednesday.

Fifteen Druze fighters have been killed in an ambush near the Syrian capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday, following days of deadly sectarian violence involving members of