According to its own statements, the Israeli army attacked a “military goal” on Wednesday in the Syrian capital Damascus. This is located in the zone of the presidential palace. According to reports, other destinations were also affected in Damascus. Israel’s head of the Benjamin Netanyahu government speaks of retaliation.
Eyewitnesses told the AP -press agency that they had heard an explosion in the presidential palace. The suburbs of the capital were also focused on Wednesday. Syrian state of television reported two dead on Wednesday. The Israeli army announced that he had shot on a “military goal” in Damascus. These attacks on goals “of the Syrian regime” would now continue.
Earlier, Israel’s army had attacked the headquarters of the Syrian army. According to the Syrian Ministry of Health, a person was killed and 18 injured. Part of the population of Damascus took to the streets as a sign of the protest against the Israeli army.
Here you can see a reporter who has reported live and another recording of Damascus from Wednesday:
What the druses have to do with it
The background is the attacks on the minority of De Drusen, which were flamed in the southern Syrian province of Sweida on Sunday. They had fought with the Sunni Bedouins. The Islamic government in Damascus then sent soldiers to the region – officially to calm the situation. Syrian human rights activists, however, accuse the government forces of killing citizens.
The government announced that he had agreed a ceasefire. However, there are still doubts about this. For example, there is confusion whether it was actually accepted from all sides. Since Sunday, more than 300 people were killed in the fighting. According to a reporter, Battles now broke out again in the city of Suweida.
Katz: Government Troops called
The government of Israel has disturbed itself in the conflict because it sees itself as a protective power of the Druses. This minority also lives in Israel. Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened to attack Syria with all the hardness “on Wednesday, the government should not call its troops back from the province of Sweida. Moreover, the Israeli army has announced that other soldiers control the Stakes -the -furenlijn between the occupied Golan Heights and the territory that Syria controls. Some Druses also serve the Israeli army.
Internationally, the importance of recent attacks in Damascus increases the concern before a new escalation in the middle East. From the position of the Turkish government, the attacks of Israel on Damascus undermine the peace efforts in the former civil warland of Syria. The second Syrian transitional government was formed at the end of March, the Assad regime had fallen at the end of 2024 and thus ended a family line of the family.
The US government announced that they had had conversations with all parties in the conflict. “We have agreed on concrete steps that this disturbing and terrible situation will end tonight,” wrote the US State Secretary Marco Rubio on the Platform X. The Syrian government welcomed the intervention of the United States.
Source: Krone
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