After days of bombing those very forces for similar actions, Israel has now announced that it will permit Syrian “internal security forces” to enter Suwayda for a 48-hour window to intervene in ongoing clashes between Bedouin fighters and the Druze community. The shift comes in response to an urgent appeal made last night by Hikmat al-Hijri—spiritual leader of Syria’s Druze and de facto head of the Suwayda Military Council (SMC)—who called on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to deploy forces to halt what he described as a looming “slaughter” of Druze civilians, as armed tribal groups from across Syria converge on the region.