Israel beats Syria's capital Damascus: NPR

Tel Aviv, Israel – Israel carried out air raids in downtown Damascus, the Syrian capital on Wednesday.

The Israeli military said that the destinations in Damascus belonged to the Syrian military headquarters and another military goal near the Syrian President Palace.

The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz has posted a video on X of a TV news live recording in Damascus, in which a building explodes behind the moderator. “The painful strikes have started,” wrote Katz.

Syria's Ministry of Health said one person was killed and 28 was injured by the strikes.

A man goes to the badly damaged Syrian military headquarters in Damascus after Israeli strikes on Wednesday.

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The strikes came in the middle of the continuing tensions in the southwest of Syria, in which the minority of Druze is native and whose community is concerned with the border between Israel-occupied Golanhöhen and Syria. The Syrian military joined Bedouins militias in clashes against the Druze.

Israel met the Syrian military there on Monday and Tuesday to protect the Druze and keep the Syrian side of the border trainers.

On Wednesday, Syria Tom Barrack's US special representative said on Wednesday that the government sentenced violence to the city of Sweida in southern Syria and asked all parties to de-escalate and negotiate a ceasefire.

This is a history of development that is updated.