Druze leader Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif said on Thursday that Israeli Druze are distrustful of interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. "It was a mistake to lift the sanctions; he hasn’t changed his stripes," Tarif noted.

In light of the ceasefire achieved last night between the Druze and the new regime in Syria, Tarif spoke with Nissim Mashal and Geula Even-Saar on 103FM.The Druze leader said that even though a ceasefire was reached overnight on Wednesday, Sharaa's forces still raided Druze houses.

"We need to know who we're dealing with. These are beasts," said Tarif. "Al-Julani dresses with a tie and jacket, but his actions are different. They talked about a ceasefire and then continued the massacre, the cleansing, going from house to house. This happened last night until midnight. He says one thing, and these foreign people, these jihadists, do other things." "What happened in Syria? They raped a five-year-old girl, they entered a holy place where women were hiding to avoid being harmed, and they burned them alive. They killed, beheaded, it was pure cleansing. This is only because they are Druze and do not believe as they do," he stated.

'We’ve seen this movie with Hamas, they are the same people, let’s not get confused. They didn’t let ambulances pass; the bodies were in the streets."