More than 120,000 Druze remain displaced from their villages in southern Syria’s Suweida region, cut off from food, medicine and humanitarian aid as winter deepens. Experts and Druze leaders told The Press Service of Israel that the situation risks escalating into a recurring cycle of massacres against one of the Middle East’s most distinct communities if the world doesn’t step up protection and assistance.

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s 152,000-strong Druze community and one of the country’s most respected minority figures, is unsparing in his assessment of the international response. He is preoccupied with coordinating donations and supplies through a humanitarian aid unit established in the Israeli Druze village of Julis, but says the effort falls far short of what is needed.

“We transfer, but it is very little, very little,” Tarif told TPS-IL. “Today, 800 trucks of humanitarian aid are brought into Gaza every day. All the international organizations that provide aid, and the hypocrisy of the world.”