On this photograph launched by the Syrian official information company SANA, smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike that hit the Syrian Protection Ministry, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday.
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel on Wednesday carried out airstrikes in downtown Damascus, the Syrian capital.
The Israeli navy mentioned the targets included Syria’s navy headquarters in Damascus in addition to one other navy goal close to the Syrian presidential palace.
Israeli Protection Minister Israel Katz posted a video on X of a TV information stay shot in Damascus through which a constructing is seen exploding behind the presenter. “The painful strikes have begun,” Katz wrote.
Syria’s Well being Ministry mentioned one particular person was killed and 28 injured from the strikes.
A person walks in entrance of the closely broken Syrian navy headquarters in Damascus, following Israeli strikes on Wednesday.
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The strikes got here amid ongoing tensions in southwest Syria, dwelling to the minority Druze, whose neighborhood straddles the border between Israel-occupied Golan Heights and Syria. The Syrian navy joined Bedouin militias in clashes in opposition to the Druze.
Israel struck the Syrian navy there on Monday and Tuesday in what they mentioned was an effort to guard the Druze and hold the Syrian facet of the border demilitarized.
Earlier Wednesday, U.S. particular envoy to Syria Tom Barrack mentioned the administration condemned the violence in southern Syria’s metropolis of Sweida and referred to as on all events to de-escalate and negotiate a ceasefire.
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