{"id":59321,"date":"2026-08-24T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/syria-says-israeli-strike-near-damascus-violation-of-international-law\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:51:48","slug":"syria-says-israeli-strike-near-damascus-violation-of-international-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/syria-says-israeli-strike-near-damascus-violation-of-international-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria says Israeli strike near Damascus violation of international law"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Syria has condemned an Israeli attack on the village of Beit Jinn, southwest of the country’s capital Damascus, which officials said hit a civilian vehicle and left several people injured.<\/b><\/p>\n

The attack was the second known Israeli strike on Syria in the past week, with Syria branding it a “violation” of its sovereignty and international law.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, the Israeli military said it had targeted a “terrorist” in the “final stages” of preparing attacks which posed an immediate threat to soldiers.<\/p>\n

The latest incident comes days after reports emerged Israel had struck a military airbase<\/a> close to the Turkish border, which Syria said threatened to escalate tensions in the region.<\/p>\n

After the earlier attack, Washington issued a rare rebuke of Israel, calling it an “unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability”.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Friday, the US ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, suggested that the strike could be “the Israelis baiting the Turks” in an attempt to draw Turkey into a conflict ahead of upcoming Israeli elections.<\/p>\n

Barrack’s comments led Israel’s far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, to describe his account as “full of inaccuracies”.<\/p>\n

Writing on X, Katz added Israeli forces were acting “in light of clear intelligence information about Turkey’s intentions”.<\/p>\n

Following Tuesday’s strikes on the Abu al-Duhur airbase, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a statement: “Israel and Syria agreed to a status quo in security matters, which Syria was on the verge of breaching by permitting Turkish troops to deploy at an airbase near Aleppo.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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