
This representational image shows smoke rising after strikes on Syria's defence ministry, in Damascus, Syria on July 16, 2025. — Reuters
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According to a Reuters witness, an Israeli airstrike targeted an area along with the Syrian capital, Damascus presidential palace, on Wednesday.
The attack near the presidential palace following the new Israeli military attacks near the Syrian army and the Defense Ministry headquarters follows the Israeli army’s new attacks.
Israel vowed to destroy Syrian government forces attacking the Druz communities in southern Syria and demanded that they evacuate.
Direct footage revealed by Al Jazeera has caused significant damage to the Ministry of Defense in the capital, which marks the increase in Israeli invasion of interim President Ahmad al -Shahara’s administration, despite a hot ties with the United States and Israel, despite a hot ties with the security of his administration’s evolution.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned the Syrian government early Wednesday that the majority of the dros would “leave the dros alone” after the clashes broke out in the Syrian city of Sweda.
Meanwhile, an Israeli military official said that Israel would not allow the Syrian army to establish a military presence on its common border and save the Druz population from the attack in southern Syria.
In addition, the official said that Israel was in close contact with the United States over the Syrian situation, adding that Israel was ready for any situation after launching several airstrikes on Syria’s targets over the past 24 hours.
He added that the Syrian army is a part of the problem, there is no solution to the crisis, saying that it has done nothing to protect the Drug Minority.
Describing Syria’s new rulers as a barely disguised jihadist, Israel has said that it will not allow Israel to move the area’s dros community from attacking the area, encouraging Israel’s own minority calls.
This week, several people have been killed in and around the Druz city of Sweda, which has put the minority fighters in the minority against government security forces and members of the Badwin tribes.
Reuters reporters gave less voices to less than capital warplanes and issued a series of mass attacks. Thick columns were seen rising from the city’s Center’s Ministry of Defense.
An Israeli military official said the Israeli army attacked the entrance of a military target near the military headquarters and a military target in Damascus. Israel will not allow the massacre of Druz in Syria, the official said.
The Syrian Ministry of Health said the attacks in Damascus injured 13 people, the state -run news agency said.
Israeli military officials said Syrian forces are not preventing attacks on Druz and are part of the issue.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the Israeli army would “continue to work in Sweda until they were completely withdrawn until they were completely withdrawn.”
Shara faces major challenges for sewing Syria despite deep misconduct by groups fearing Islamist rule.
Syrian government troops were deported to the Sweda area on Monday to end the fighting between dros fighters and baden armed men, but the clash with the Druz militia itself ended.
Sweda residents arrived by the phone saying that they were set up inside the house after the fighting continued on Wednesday.
“We are surrounded and we hear the fighters screaming … We are very scared,” said a Sweda resident who arrived by phone.
The crack of counting by booms can be heard in the background. The man added, “We are trying to keep the children silent so that no one can hear us.”
Druz is a follower of a religion that is a shot of Islam and spreads between Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
A spiritual leader in the Druz said on Tuesday that his community was being subjected to a brutal attack by government forces. The government says illegal groups are responsible for violence.
The Israeli military said it attacked the “Syrian government” targets in southern Syria, including tanks, and a pick -up truck with machine guns leading to Sweda.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights says 169 people were killed in this week’s violence. Security sources put the tool at 300. Reuters could not freely confirm the tools.
The United States has urged Israel to stop the Syrian attacks
A Reuters witness said that after calls to help the Drugs in Syria in Israel, on Wednesday, several Israeli dros collided with a fence, and contacted the Syrian team. The Israeli military said it was working to safely return the border civilians.
US Envoy Tom Barrack, who praised Syria’s new rulers and announced in May that peace between Syria and Israel is possible, condemning violence against civilians in Sweda.
“All parties should back down and engage in meaningful dialogue, which causes a lasting ceasefire,” he said.
Israeli dros man Phase Shakir said he feels helpless at the violence in Syria. “My family is in the evening – my wife is in Syria, my maternal uncle is from Syria, and my family is in Syria, in Sweda, I do not like to see them being killed. They expelled them from their homes, they looted their homes, but I couldn’t do anything.”
Shara has repeatedly promised the protection of minorities.
A Syrian government statement on Wednesday said that those responsible for lawlessness in Sweda would be held accountable. It states that the government is determined to protect the rights of people in Sweda.
Sweda and nearby villages were coming to heavy artillery and mortar fire on Wednesday, News Outlet Sweda 24 said.
The Defense Ministry demanded residents of the city to stay indoors. On Tuesday, a Reuters reporter said he had seen government forces in Sweda looting and burning houses and stealing cars and furniture. A man showed the reporter the body of his brother, who was shot in his head inside his house.