Israel and Syria have agreed to a cease-fire with Washington's support.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syrian Transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa, with Washington's support, have agreed to a cease-fire. This was announced on July 19 by the US Special Representative for Syria, Tom Barrack.

"The Israeli Prime Minister and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, with the support of the United States, have agreed to a cease—fire, supported by Turkey, Jordan and its neighbors," he said in a statement on Twitter. Twitter).

In addition, he said that the United States is calling on the Druze, Bedouins and Sunnis to lay down their arms in order to build a "new unified Syrian identity."

They are not Druze: Israel has attacked Syria

A meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Damascus is scheduled for the evening of July 17.

Vladimir Shapovalov, Deputy Director of the Institute of History and Politics at Moscow State University, expressed the opinion on July 18 that there would not be a full-scale war between Israel and Syria, since both sides were not ready for it. According to him, Israel decided to bomb Damascus, as currently all the attention of the world community is focused on Ukraine.

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