{"id":494,"date":"2025-07-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=494"},"modified":"2025-07-17T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:22:21","slug":"israel-bombards-syrias-damascus-as-us-says-steps-agreed-to-end-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Israel bombards Syria\u2019s Damascus as US says steps agreed to end violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israel has carried out powerful\u00a0air strikes\u00a0near Syria\u2019s presidential palace and on the military headquarters in the heart of Damascus, a major escalation in its bombardment of the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least three people were killed and 34 others were wounded in the\u00a0attacks on Damascus\u00a0on Wednesday, Syrian state media reported, citing the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asake - Organise (Official Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_u4_iWCvZ5c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While targeting Damascus, the Israeli military continued to pound areas in southern Syria, including\u00a0Suwayda, where a new ceasefire deal has been struck after four days of clashes between Druze armed groups, Bedouin tribes and government forces, which left hundreds dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syria\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Israeli attacks on Damascus and Suwayda were \u201cpart of a systematic Israeli policy to ignite tension and chaos and undermine security in Syria\u201d, calling on the international community to take \u201curgent action\u201d against Israeli aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel said its bombing campaign is aimed at protecting the Druze minority, and it has called on the Syrian government to withdraw its troops from the city of Suwayda, where much of the violence has taken place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defence Minister Israel Katz said on X that the Israeli military would \u201ccontinue to operate vigorously in Suwayda to destroy the forces that attacked the Druze until they withdraw completely\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on Wednesday, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the parties to the fighting in southern Syria had agreed on \u201cspecific steps that will bring this troubling and horrifying situation to an end tonight\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis will require all parties to deliver on the commitments they have made and this is what we fully expect them to do,\u201d Rubio said on X of the ceasefire deal, reached one day after an earlier iteration had collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 300 people had been killed in fighting as of Wednesday morning, including four children, eight women and 165 soldiers and security forces, according to the UK-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/7\/16\/israel-bombards-syrias-damascus-as-us-says-steps-agreed-to-end-violence\"> (AlJazeera)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has carried out powerful\u00a0air strikes\u00a0near Syria\u2019s presidential palace and on the military headquarters in the heart of Damascus, a major escalation in its bombardment of the neighbouring country. 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