Israel’s air pressure struck near Syria’s presidential palace early Friday (May 2, 2025) hours after warning Syrian authorities to not march towards villages inhabited by members of a minority sect in southern Syria.
The strike got here after days of clashes between pro-Syrian authorities gunmen and fighters who belong to the Druze minority sect near the capital, Damascus. The clashes left dozens of individuals useless or wounded.
The Israeli Army mentioned in an announcement that fighter jets struck adjoining to the world of the Palace of President Hussein al-Sharaa in Damascus. It gave no additional particulars.
Pro-government Syrian media retailers mentioned the strike hit near the People’s Palace on a hill overlooking the town.
The Druze non secular sect is a minority group that started as a Tenth-century offshoot of Ismailism, a department of Shiite Islam. More than half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide dwell in Syria.
Most of the opposite Druze dwell in Lebanon and Israel, together with within the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria within the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981. In Syria, they largely dwell within the southern Sweida province and a few suburbs of Damascus.
Published – May 02, 2025 08:31 am IST
