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SvennoJ on 13 March 2025
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At least one person killed in Israeli air attack on Syria’s Damascus: Reports

Israeli forces have struck a building in Damascus’s Dummar neighbourhood, according to Syria’s state news agency.

The attack, carried out with two missiles, killed at least one person, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.


Israel confirms Damascus attack

In a statement, the Israeli army claims to have hit a “command centre belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad”.

Separately, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said the attack shows Israel “will not allow Syria to become a threat to the state of Israel”. “There will be no immunity for Islamic terrorism against Israel – whether in Damascus or anywhere else,” said Katz.


Syrian authorities deny PIJ used sites attacked by Israel in Damascus

We have heard two loud explosions almost at the same time as Syria’s constitutional declaration was being signed by the president of the country.

Then, we received videos of two locations hit by Israeli air attacks. Israel said they were centres being used by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. However, the authorities here deny that.

There are unconfirmed reports of one person having been killed and several injured.

Since the attack, we have seen Israeli aircraft flying in circles above Damascus for more than two hours. This is definitely a show of force. The Israelis want to make sure that the new leadership in the country is aware that Israel is monitoring them.


Israel targeted empty home of PIJ leader Ziad Nakhaleh: Report

A Palestinian Islamic Jihad member at the scene of the Israeli air strike in Syria’s capital Damascus has told The Associated Press news agency that the apartment that was targeted was the home of the group’s leader Ziad Nakhaleh.

Ismail Sindak said the apartment had been empty for years, adding that Nakhaleh is not in Syria. Asked whether anyone was killed in the strike, Sindak said that “the house was empty.”

It was not immediately clear where Nakhaleh is but he is believed to spend his time between Lebanon, Iran and Syria.

As we have reported earlier, the Israeli military said its air force conducted an intelligence-based strike on a command centre belonging to the PIJ in Damascus.


Civil defence members stands near a damaged site, after Israeli aircraft targeted a building on the edge of Damascus, Syria, March 13


Syrian official says three civilians injured in Israeli strike

Abdulrahman al-Dabbagh, the director of security in Damascus, says the Israeli strike in the Syrian capital earlier today destroyed a building and injured three civilians, including a woman, who is in critical condition.

Syria’s AlIkhbaria TV quoted al-Dabbagh as saying that the building housed an “office that has been abandoned” since the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad in December of last year.

The Associated Press had reported that the Israeli attack targeted a home belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad al-Nakhaleh.