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‘What Israel is doing is a clear signal to Damascus against consolidating power in the South’

FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks to Nanar Hawach, senior analyst for Syria at the International Crisis Group, about the sectarian violence in Syria and the Israeli airstrikes on Damascus. He says that ‘what Israel is doing is a clear signal to Syrian authorities against consolidating power in the south’ and is a message to Syrian minority groups that ‘their only leverage is the weapons they have’.

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