(11 Mar 2025)
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Jerusalem – 11 March 2025
1. Sharren Haskel, Deputy Foreign Minister walking to podium
2. Close of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs sign
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharren Haskel, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister:
“Thousands of Syrian civilians have been massacred by (leader of HTS Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed) al-Golani, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, the new Syrian regime. HTS is a jihadist Islamist terror group that took Damascus by force and was supported by Turkey. HTS were ISIS, then they were Al-Qaeda. They were jihadist then and they are jihadist now. Even if some of their leaders have put on suits, the international community must come to its senses about the regime in Damascus; it’s actually about jihad. This is a massacre. The whole world should condemn. This is what an ethnic cleansing really looks like.”
4. Mid of camera operator
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharren Haskel, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister:
“The international community must speak out against this jihadist regime in Damascus, like Israel has done since December last year. Israel is committed to preventing what we saw in Syria this weekend from happening on our border. When we say we are concerned about the security on the Syrian border, it means that we are concerned about those jihadist monsters committing a massacre, an ethnic cleansing of Jews and Druze within our borders. We will not allow the formation of jihadist threat on our borders with Syria. There are thousands of Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives in Syria that wants to attack us and make war against Israel on another front. Europe must raise a clear voice regarding the mass murder of Alawites and other minorities in Syria.”
6. Haskel leaving briefing
STORYLINE:
Israel’s deputy foreign minister said Tuesday that deadly sectarian violence in neighboring Syria amounted to "ethnic cleansing" and said Israel was working to prevent a threat along its border from Syria’s new "jihadist regime."
"Israel is committed to preventing what we saw in Syria this weekend from happening on our border," Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said at a news conference in Jerusalem.
Since insurgents led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, overthrew ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad in December, Israel has voiced concern that the group could seize Syrian military assets and use them against it, or that instability there could spill over into its territory.
Since Assad’s ouster, Israel has overtaken a buffer zone in southern Syria and vowed to prevent the new Syrian forces from entering the area south of Damascus.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said its fighter jets struck military assets in southern Syria, including radars and equipment, which it said posed a threat.
AP video shot by Shlomo Mor
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