Jerusalem: Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on Wednesday evening, targeting several locations in and around the southern Syrian city of Daraa, involving significant damage to the areas focused around the Daraa governor's palace, the Military Intelligence Branch, and the Civil Registry building in the city.
According to Ghana News Agency, the airstrikes reportedly also targeted military positions affiliated with the Syrian government and its allied militias. The attacks are part of expanding Israeli military actions across Syrian territory, as Israel aims to protect Druze civilians amid the ongoing sectarian violence in Syria's southern Sweida region.
In rural Damascus governorate, Israeli jets also targeted the Kisweh area, south of the capital, Damascus. No casualties have been reported from these strikes so far. However, earlier strikes on central Damascus, which targeted the entrances of the General Staff headquarters and the Ministry of Defence, resulted in widespread damage, leaving the fate of Syria's top-ranking military and political leaders uncertain. An additional strike impacted near the presidential palace, with the Syrian Health Ministry reporting one death and 18 injuries from the attacks in Damascus.
In the Sweida governorate, Israeli airstrikes targeted concentrations of Syrian Ministry of Defence personnel, particularly focusing on military convoys and vehicles near the villages of Ulgha and al-Mujaymir, as well as regime forces inside Sweida city. Sources from the British-based war monitor confirmed that three senior officers from the Ministry of Defence were killed in the strikes on al-Mujaymir. The confirmed total of Ministry of Defense fatalities from Israeli strikes in Sweida now stands at least 10, with the number likely to rise.
