Syria's interim president says wood protection is “priorites”

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sahara, has said on Thursday that the protection of drunk citizens and their rights is “our priority”, until Israel pledged to destroy Syrian government forces that are attacking wood trees in southern Syria.

In his first televised speech following Israel's powerful shelling on Damascus on Wednesday, Shara addressed the trees Thursday, saying that “we reject any attempts to pull into the hands of any outside party”.

We're not one of those scared of war. We have spent our lives facing challenges and protecting our people, but we have put the interests of Syrians before chaos and destruction”, he said.

He added that Syrian people are not afraid of war and that they are willing to fight if their dignity is threatened, reports the REL, broadcast. Periscope.

Israeli air strikes destroyed a section of the Syrian Defence Ministry and struck near the Presidential Palace after Israel pledged to destroy “destroy” government forces that are attacking timbers in southern Syria and demanding their withdrawal.

Bombings marked a major escalation on the part of Israel against the Shara-led administration. They occurred despite Shara's approach to the US and his administration's contacts with Israel in the field of security.

Describing Syria's new rulers as poorly disguised jihadists, Israel said it would not allow them to shift forces south of Syria and has pledged to protect the woody minority in this part of the country from attacks, as it was prompted by calls from the woody minority within Israel itself.

Meanwhile, the United States said the fighting will stop soon.

We have agreed on specific steps that will put an end to this disturbing and terrible situation tonight”, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday evening.

On Wednesday, Syrian government officials and leaders of the woody religious minority declared a new ceasefire after several-day fighting.

Government forces' convoys began to withdraw from the city of Suveida, but it is not yet clear whether the new agreement reached by the Syrian Interior Ministry and a wooden religious leader through a video message will be implemented.

An earlier ceasefire declared the previous day failed very quickly.

Israeli attacks continued after the ceasefire was declared.

The latest escalation in Syria began with kidnappings and revenge attacks between the local Bedouin Sunite tribes and armed wood factions in the southern province.

Government forces that intervened to restore order then clashed with woody forces.

The woody religious sect was formed in the 10th century as a branch of ismailism, which is the very branch of Shiite Islam. More than half of the world's nearly 1 million wood trees live in Syria.

The rest live mainly in Lebanon and Israel, including on the Golan Plateau, which Israel took from Syria during the Middle East war in 1967 and annexed in 1981.

No official victim data has been published since Monday, when the Syrian Interior Ministry said 30 people were killed.

But the Syrian Human Rights watchdog in the United Kingdom reported that by Wednesday morning over 300 people have been killed, including four children, eight women and 165 soldiers and security forces. /Periscope/