{"id":260496,"date":"2026-08-22T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260496\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:38:26","slug":"israel-targets-terrorist-in-southern-syria-damascus-condemns-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260496\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel targets \u2018terrorist\u2019 in southern Syria; Damascus condemns attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel said it targeted a \u201cterrorist\u201d \u2060in southern Syria \u2060on Saturday in \u2060what Syria\u2019s foreign ministry said was a drone strike on a civilian vehicle on the outskirts of Damascus in a \u201cblatant\u201d violation of its \u200cterritory.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Syrian foreign ministry said the drone had hit a vehicle on a road near Beit Jinn village in the countryside west of the capital, which caused injuries among civilians.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Syrian state television \u2060reported one person was injured.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Israeli military said in \u200ca statement that it fired in southern Syria towards what it described as a \u200cterrorist, whose activity posed an immediate threat to its \u2060soldiers. \u2060It did not say how it fired.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Israel and Syria flared this week after <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3364901\/israel-turkey-tensions-rise-after-netanyahu-orders-strikes-syrian-airbase?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel bombed an airbase<\/a> in the northwest on \u200cTuesday, an escalation \u200cUS special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, \u200ccalled \u201cunnecessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Syria\u2019s foreign ministry said the strike was part of \u2060a pattern of repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory and \u2060was a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of its sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It held Israel accountable for the consequences of such actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel said it targeted a \u201cterrorist\u201d \u2060in southern Syria \u2060on Saturday in \u2060what Syria\u2019s foreign ministry said was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[1613,32849,670,37,2412,72,2920,95,10741,26177,56244,3623,153],"class_list":["post-260496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-beit-jinn","tag-damascus","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-israeli-military","tag-israeli-troops","tag-syria","tag-syrian","tag-syrian-foreign-ministry","tag-syrian-state-television","tag-tom-barrack","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117140855369629800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}