Israel strikes Syria's capital Damascus, NPR,

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5. Avoid domestic unrest.

He was officially pissed when Hezbollah managed, with denials of ever doing anything to hurt the wrong people, ever, to strike a Druze community in Israel.

Partly because Hezbollah wasn't nice to the large Druze community in Lebanon, and its supporter Assad wasn't nice to Druze in Syria.

That's 1.

But also there are two large areas of Druze in Syria--one's adjacent to the Golan Heights (not where the non-Damascus Israeli strike hit) and the other in Suweida and points south-ish (where the strikes hit). What was hit? Syrian troops.

The strikes in Damascus were the Ministry of Defense.

Don't know if Israel should be defending an oppressed minority when assaulted by local armed "us-supremacist" bigots, only to have the same-'ethnicity' military intervene to break up the fighting by taking the bigots' side. But that's one way of putting it that's not actually inaccurate in any regard.