Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported on Sunday that Israel sent urgent medical aid to the Druze in Sweida and the step was coordinated with Washington and Syria. Spokespeople for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Foreign Ministry and the military did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Dozens of people lined up to donate their blood as soon as the donation center opened and 40 samples were collected in just two hours. Magen David Adom began a blood drive on Sunday in the Druze-majority village of Isfiya to support Syrian Druze wounded by militia groups and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime forces in recent clashes,

Syria's southern city of Sweida witnesses a fragile ceasefire after deadly battles between Druze militiamen and Bedouin fighters. The conflict displaced over 128,000 people. While evacuation efforts are underway,

Dozens of bodies could be seen lying on the ground at Sweida National Hospital following days of deadly clashes between Druze and Bedouins, and later with Syrian Security Forces in the city.

The Syrian defence ministry said on Tuesday it was aware of reports of "shocking violations" by people wearing military fatigues in the country's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, and said it would launch an investigation.

Syria’s armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida following weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid convoys started to enter the battered southern city.

The violence in the Druze-majority city was some of the most brutal in Syria since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December.

Clad in black in a modest apartment in central Beirut, Rima weeps for the relatives she lost in the recent wave of violence that engulfed Sweida, the Druze heartland in southern Syria. A Syrian Druze married to a Lebanese Druze,

For days, Sunni tribal warriors surrounded the Druze capital in southern Syria. Fighters drove around in off-road vehicles, while bearded jihadists took selfies. Daniel Böhm and Dominic Nahr report from the front lines.