Friday 02/May/2025 – 05:36 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Friday morning that Israel attacked a target near the presidential palace in the Syrian capital, Damascus, again, pledged to “protect the people of the Druze minority.”
Israel is attacking the area adjacent to the Presidential Palace in Damascus
This is the second time that Israel has launched a blow to Syria within two days, after it pledged to defend the Druze minority.
Netanyahu said in a joint statement with Defense Minister Yisrael Katz: last night, Israel launched an air strike near the Presidential Palace in Damascus. He added: This is a clear message to the Syrian regime. We will not allow the (Syrian) forces to deploy south of Damascus or to form any threat to the Druze.
In turn, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraei said in a post on the X platform that “warplanes raided shortly before the area adjacent to the Ahmed Hussein Sharia Palace in Damascus.”
On Thursday, the Israeli army announced that it had been transferred two wounded Syrian Druzees from Syria to Israel for treatment, after it announced on Wednesday the evacuation of three others. The army did not specify how it was wounded or where. He said in his statement that they were transferred to treatment in the city of Safed, northern Israel, after they were injured in the Syrian territories.
