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Netanyahu says Syria ceasefire 'obtained by force'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said a ceasefire in Syria was "obtained by force", after Israel struck military targets in the heart of Damascus in response to government troops attacking the Druze in Sweida.

"It is a ceasefire obtained by force. Not by demands, not by pleas -- by force," he said in a statement.

Government troops began their pull-out from the Druze heartland province of Sweida in southern Syria on Wednesday evening.

Source: Agence France Presse


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