from PressTV
At least 13 Syrian people have been killed and more than two dozen others injured in Israeli strikes on the countryside of the capital Damascus amid the occupying regime’s heightened incursions on the Arab country since the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad and the rule of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants.
The casualties, as the Syrian TV reported on Friday, took place in an overnight Israeli attack by helicopters and drones on the town of Beit Jinn in the Damascus suburbs after Israeli forces entered the town and were surrounded by local residents, prompting the outbreak of gunfire and confrontations.
“The helicopters of the occupation army and its artillery shelled Beit Jinn, located on the foothills of Mount Hermon, southwest of Damascus, resulting in 13 martyrs and wounding 25 civilians,” the report said, falling short of specifying the number of the injured and the scope of damage.
The Syrian News Channel — Al-Ikhbariyah Syria — confirmed that the attack coincided with Israeli soldiers entering the town of Beit Jinn as the surrounding areas were being shelled by the regime’s artillery.
The news outlet underlined that the shelling came after clashes between local residents and a patrol of the Israeli occupation army that penetrated the southern town and “kidnapped” three young men...
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