As of now, there has been no official statement from either the Israeli Prime Minister's Office or the Syrian Presidency regarding this development

Significant progress in Gaza ceasefire negotiations i24NEWS journalist Amichai Stein reported on Thursday a major breakthrough in talks between Israel and Hamas, hailed by mediators as a "breakthrough" thanks to a new Israeli deployment map.

At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity across Syria, Lebanon and Israel.

After government loyalists and Druze militia clashed in the southern city of Suweida, Syrian government forces intervened.

P LUMES OF SMOKE rose over Damascus on July 16th as Israeli warplanes struck Syria’s capital. Targeting the presidential palace, the defence ministry and the army command, the attack killed at least one person and wounded several others.

PM says strikes in line with demilitarization policy, pledge to protect Druze; Damascus says truce reached with factions controlling Sweida, where sectarian violence has killed scores

Israeli officials react to the ongoing violence in Syria's Sweida between regime forces and the local Druze community. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Israeli Druze citizens not to cross the border amid ongoing clashes in Sweida in southern Syria on Wednesday afternoon.

Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias

These are wild times between Israel and Syria.And in these wild times it is unclear whether Israel's attacks on Syrian regime forces on Monday and Tuesday - even if it is to protect some Syrian-Druze who the Jewish state has good relations with and even if the Syrian forces are in part of Israel's self-declared buffer zone – will stand unchallenged or lead to major strategic fallout.