Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's government responded by deploying forces to the city. Druze residents of Suweida told the BBC they had witnessed "barbaric acts" as gunmen - government forces and foreign fighters - attacked people. Israel targeted these forces, saying they were acting to protect the Druze.

Armed Bedouin clans have withdrawn from the Druze-majority Syrian city of Sweida after a week of deadly clashes.

Armed Bedouin tribes withdrew from the southern Syrian province of Sweida on Sunday, following a week of bloody factional fighting with Druze militias that has threatened to unravel Syria’s postwar transition.