The Christian-Jewish group sends the aid while the minorities are facing deadly militant attacks

The international scholarship of Christians and Jews quickly mobilized its resources in July to help the persecuted Syrians and Christians confronted with what some called a genocide produced by jihadists in southern Syria.

The forces supported by Syrian, including the jihadist fighters, launched attacks against the Syrians Druze in the southern part of the country, causing the murders of At least 1,400 people,, Including a 35 -year -old Syrian American from Oklahoma, Hosam Saraya, who visited his family in Syria.

“Once we saw what was going on in Sweida, we couldn’t close them.” The international scholarship of Christians and the president of the Jews and World CEO, Yael Eckstein, told Fox News Digital.

Who are the Druze? The religious group helps Syrian members under an Islamist attack, Israeli members offer support

The Syrian security forces walk together along a street after clashes between the troops of the Syrian government and the local Druze fighters resumed in the southern city of Druze of Sweida on July 16, 2025. (Reuters / Karam al-Masri)

Her organization, she noted, had never operated in Syria before this year, but said that her organization “had received an urgent call from an Sweida hospital, and that they needed basic drugs, surgical care, medicine and equipment in the USI, equipment and masks of the first worker for workers in the morgue”.

The Stock Exchange coordinated with Israeli Defense Forces (FDI) to deliver medication and equipment to Sweida. Eckstein said that his group had provided “Israeli retired ambulances in Syria so that the inhabitants can exploit them”.

The majority of the city of Druze de Sweida was a focal point of the siege executed by Syrian Islamists faithful to the new President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, a former member of the terrorist movements designated by the United States, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

According to Christian broadcasting networkChristians were also targeted. The Islamists would have murdered Khaled Mazhar, pastor of the evangelical church of Good Shepherd in Sweida, as well as 11 family members. An additional person survived the massacre of Christians because the Islamists thought they had died.

Who are the Druze? The religious group helps Syrian members under an Islamist attack, Israeli members offer support

The international scholarship of Christians and Jews, the largest philanthropic group in Israel, sent aid to the Druze community in Syria in the middle of persecution and attacks by Islamic activists. (The international scholarship for Christians and Jews)

In July, Israel launched military strikes against the largely Bedouin forces en route to the southern city of Sweida to stop the massacre. Israel also attacked the Syrian Defense Siege in Damascus to stop the bloodshed in Sweida. Eckstein added that at least “26 Druze villages were completely burned”.

Since the interview with Fox News Digital with Eckstein, the Syrian Human Rights Observatory reported in “at least 30 villages has been damaged by the criminal fire and destruction”.

Eckstein said the scholarship had provided aid for the first time in Syria in April when Druze in Syria had been targeted and killed.

“When we provided 1,500 boxes of druze food less than 13 kilometers from the Israeli borders after the massacre in April, two days later, the Islamists burned boxes of communion,” said Eckstein Sid.

Israel and Syria have no diplomatic relations. Syria is considered an enemy state because it has launched several wars against Israel since the Renaissance of the Jewish State in 1948.

Eckstein said that the scholarship “operating in enemy territory, and that Jews and Christians provide vital aid. Islamists do not like it. We would like to see that it is in the interests of the Syrian government to receive aid and hope that more goodness will be brought to Syria.

“Now, the Jewish people are standing with Christians who are persecuted in Syria. It is really important to emphasize that it is a case of good against evil and is not limited to Syria. It is important for Jews and Christians to stand together concerning the Judeo-Christian values which sanctify life.”

The international scholarship of Christians and Jews has aid to Druze, Christian and other minorities affected by recent attacks. Trucks have entered the Israeli border with Syria. (The international scholarship for Christians and Jews)

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Safwan Marich of the Israeli community of the Druze directs the Stock Exchange Emergency Intervention Center and told Fox News Digital that, in the Sweida region, “Tyhere is an in progress genocide. This does not need an explanation, especially for the Jewish people.

“Once the residents of the deserted village return, they will include the extent of the disaster. Women have been kidnapped by jihads and the children were kidnapped and disappeared.”

Marich was in contact with his Druze colleagues in Syria.

“This war is in a religious substance,” he said. “There is a video of Daesh (Islamic State) who goes to one of the villages to ask:” Are you a Druze or Sunni? “And he replied that he is Syrian.

“It is important for me to help the Druze because, above all, I am a Druze. The Druze are not aggressive and hostile, but they will not be seated barely when they are attacked. We have in the Druze tradition a command to help our brothers. To help the community of the Druze where it could be in the world.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not seen) and Syrian acting president Ahmed Al-Sharaa hold a press conference after their meeting at the presidential complex in Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025. (Mehmet Ali Ozcan / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Marich also noted that he was Israeli, and the other day, a Druze officer was killed in Gaza. Twelve officers of the Druze community have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war.

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“They died by defending Israel and the Jewish people. We expect Israeli society to go through the community of Druze, and we can therefore defend our brothers in Syria. The State of Israel cannot afford to have Daesh on its borders and at the Golan.”

He underlined the example of Hamas on the border and its growth as a military danger over the years as a warning that radical Islamists have taken foot in the Syrian-Israeli border.