The footage was also recirculated across Israeli media, including public broadcaster, KAN News. Members of Syria's Druze community flew an Israeli flag from a roof in Sweida in southern Syria, footage shared across social media appeared to show on Wednesday afternoon.

In Syria's Druze-majority city of Sweida, residents said they have been living in terror since the arrival of government forces who have been carrying out what witnesses and a war monitor have called summary executions.

Syria announced that its army had begun to withdraw from violence-hit Sweida on Wednesday, following a wave of Israeli strikes on the capital and a US call for government forces to leave the majority-Druze southern city.

The Syrian government deployed its forces in the Druze-majority city of Sweida, in a bid by the Islamist authorities to extend their power to the area controlled by local armed groups.

Israeli officials react to the ongoing violence in Syria's Sweida between regime forces and the local Druze community.