Israel Strikes Capital Of Syria Over 160 Times

Israel is in conflict once again.

Israel launched dozens of airstrikes on Damascus, the capital of Syria, on Wednesday.

The attacks come as the Syrian government has launched attacks against the Druze communities in Southern Syria.

Here are some of the scenes:

BREAKING:

This is not Gaza.

This is not Beirut.

This is Damascus.

Israel is raining bombs on Syria’s capital, targeting civilian neighborhoods and government sites, in one of the oldest cities on Earth — a city that has stood for over 11,000 years. pic.twitter.com/7iPm4WwPZg

— sarah (@sahouraxo) July 16, 2025

🚨 Breaking: Israel 🇮🇱 destroys the Chief of Staff headquarters of Syrian 🇸🇾 military in Damascus 👇

Israel is intervening to stop the massacre of the Druze in Syria, which nobody else cares about. pic.twitter.com/l3yVAa9QKY

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) July 16, 2025

Reuters provided the following on Israel’s recent attacks on Syria:

Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, damaging the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy Syrian government forces attacking Druze communities in southern Syria and demanded they withdraw.

The attacks marked a significant Israeli escalation against the Islamist-led administration of interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and came despite his warming ties with the United States and his administration’s evolving security contacts with Israel.

Describing Syria’s new rulers as barely disguised jihadists, Israel has said it won’t let them move forces into southern Syria while vowing to shield the area’s Druze community from attack, encouraged by calls from Israel’s own Druze minority.

Scores of people have been killed this week in violence in and around the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, pitting fighters from the Druze minority against government security forces and members of Bedouin tribes.

Reuters reporters heard warplanes swoop low over the capital and unleash a series of massive strikes. Thick columns were seen rising from the city centre defence ministry.

BREAKING: Israel just bombed the capitol of Syria despite the fact that Syria has all but surrendered to Israel. Time and time again the main culprits of war and conflict in the Middle East are Israel and the U.S. pic.twitter.com/CHepOe4gGQ

— Power to the People ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) July 16, 2025

The Jerusalem Post had more details to report on the attack:

As of Wednesday afternoon, the IDF had undertaken 160 aerial attacks on Syrian regime forces in and around the vicinity of Sweida in southern Syria, where Israel says the regime’s forces are slaughtering Syrian-Druze.

In addition, the IDF has attacked portions of Syria’s Defense Ministry and Presidential Palace in Damascus.

IDF sources said that the military is ready for a multi-day campaign to convince Syrian regime forces to withdraw from Sweida and leave the Syrian-Druze their autonomy.

However, the IDF said that the situation for the Syrian-Druze is desperate and that despite IDF aerial attacks, if on Tuesday, the Druze controlled around 70% of Sweida, by Wednesday, regime forces controlled around 70% of the city.

In addition, the IDF said that the regime has around 200 militia men committing atrocities against the Druze in Sweida, while another 1,000 more official Syrian regime army forces have the city surrounded and cut off.