International Israel's new military incursion in Syria kills 13 people

[Koya]

Israeli strikes kill at least 13 in southern Syria​

The Syrian foreign ministry condemned the operation on Friday as a 'war crime' and accused Israel of wanting to 'ignite the region.'

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...-at-least-13-in-southern-syria_6747929_4.html

Published on November 28, 2025, at 12:26 pm (Paris)
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A man lies on a hospital bed at Al-Mouwasat Hospital in Damascus, following a operation by Israeli forces in the Syrian village of Beit Jin on November 28, 2025. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
Israeli forces killed 13 people on Friday, November 28, in an operation in southern Syria, the deadliest since Bashar al-Assad's fall from power nearly a year ago, which they said was targeting an Islamist group. Since an Islamist coalition overthrew longtime ruler Assad in December of last year, Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes as well as incursions into Syria.


The Israeli army said an exchange of fire in the operation to detain militants in the Syrian village of Beit Jin left six Israeli soldiers wounded, with three of them in a serious condition. The Syrian foreign ministry condemned the operation as a "war crime" and accused Israel of wanting to "ignite the region."

The death toll rose to 13 later on Friday morning, according to the director of health for Damascus province Toufic Hassaba, cited by state news agency SANA, after state television said earlier that 10 were killed. State television said women and children were among the dead, with some residents still trapped under rubble and dozens of families fleeing the village to safety.

The Israeli army said the targets of the operation were fighters from the Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, which is based in neighboring Lebanon. "The suspects operated in the area of Beit Jin in southern Syria and advanced terror attacks against Israeli civilians," it said in a statement.

A local official told Agence France-Presse that Israeli forces raided the village to capture three men, sparking clashes. "Following the clashes, the Israeli occupation forces shelled the area with artillery and drones," village official Abdul Rahman al-Hamrawi said.

'Territorial integrity'​

Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, said Friday's operation was "the deadliest incursion since Israel began conducting operations outside the buffer zone in southern Syria."

Israel sent troops into the UN-patrolled buffer zone, which has separated Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights since 1974, in the immediate aftermath of Assad's fall. Israel has occupied Syria's Golan Heights, a strategic mountain plateau, since 1967, annexing it in 1981 in a move not recognized by the international community.

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli troops deployed in the buffer zone, drawing a sharp rebuke from Damascus and others in the region. The premier has previously insisted that southern Syria be demilitarized following Assad's overthrow.

In a resolution passed on November 6, the UN Security Council reaffirmed its strong backing for Syria's "sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity." Israel's key backer, the United States, has been pushing for a security pact between Syria and Israel, part of President Donald Trump's goal to shore up the fragile Gaza ceasefire with a broader Middle East peace settlement.

While Syrian and Israeli officials have held repeated rounds of talks, President Ahmed al-Sharaa has ruled out Syria joining the Abraham Accords, under which a handful of Arab countries have normalized ties with Israel.

He recently met with Trump and warned in a UN speech that Israel's persistent attacks put the region at risk, but backed diplomacy. "In the face of this aggression, Syria is committed to dialogue," he said.

Le Monde with AFP

 

[Koya]

Damascus blasts Israeli war crime : At least 13 killed • FRANCE 24 English​

At least 13 people, including two children, were killed and 25 injured as Israel carried out another incursion into Syrian territory in the Damascus countryside, according to state media, which also reported that several Israeli soldiers were wounded in the clashes. The dawn raid and accompanying strikes forced dozens of families to flee the town of Beit Jinn for safer nearby areas. Camille Knight reports.

 

[Koya]

Trump warns Israel not to ‘interfere’ in Syria​

Move comes days after a deadly operation by Israeli forces killed 13 people​

The United States has warned Israel against taking action that could disrupt Syria’s transition from international ostracism and impoverishment under the ousted Assad dynasty.

Tensions have risen over hundreds of strikes by Israel on Syria, the deadliest of which saw Israeli forces kill 13 people on Friday in the south of the country. Syria called the Israeli operation a “war crime”, while Israel said it had targeted an Islamist group.

In a post on social media, US president Donald Trump, who has been pushing for a security pact between Israel and Syria, said: “It is very important that Israel maintain a strong and true dialogue with Syria, and that nothing takes place that will interfere with Syria’s evolution into a prosperous State.”

Mr Trump said the current Syrian government offers a “historic opportunity” to achieve peace in the Middle East.

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The US president later spoke on the phone to Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and invited him to Washington in the near future. This would be the fifth visit since Trump returned to the White House in January.

While Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa said US-mediated talks between his government and Israel on a security agreement had begun, negotiations have been suspended since September.

Ahmed al-Sharaa waves as he greets supporters outside the White House before a meeting earlier this year. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Israeli critics have accused Mr Netanyahu of disrupting dialogue by bombing and shelling Syrian army posts, abducting Syrians, and visiting the United Nations buffer zone between Israel and Syria occupied by Israeli troops a year ago.

Mr Sharaa is a former al-Qaeda commander who became the first Syrian leader to be hosted in the White House since his country’s independence in 1946.

[ Why is Donald Trump reaching out to Syria’s new president Ahmed al-Sharaa?Opens in new window ]

He has rejected normalisation with Israel under the Abraham Accords which have established ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco – countries that have neither lost territory to nor fought with Israel.

Mr Sharaa has argued that Syria battled Israel in 1948, 1967 and 1973 and said Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967 and annexed the territory in 1981.

As its price for peace, Syria is seeking the return of the Golan. Since Mr Sharaa’s family was driven from the Golan by Israel, he chose as his nom de guerre “Abu Mohammed al-Golani”.

His armed faction, the Muslim fundamentalist Nusra Front, was formed in 2012 to overthrow the Assad government and was designated by the US as a foreign terrorist organisation.

This was lifted last month. There are an estimated 500,000 Golan refugees and their descendants living in Syria while most of the 24,000 Syrian Druze who remain in the Golan retain Syrian nationality.

There are an estimated 31,000 Israeli settlers in the Golan.

Formerly branded a “terrorist” with a $10 million bounty on his head, Mr Sharaa has been praised by Mr Trump as a promising, “strong” leader.

In November he announced Syria has become the 90th member of the US-led coalition combating the al-Qaeda offshoot Islamic State, or Isis, arguing that Syria is entering a “new era” of co-operation with the US.

Trump warns Israel not to ‘interfere’ in Syria

Move comes days after a deadly operation by Israeli forces killed 13 people

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[Koya]

Resident recounts missile attack during Israel raid in southern Syria​

Israeli forces killed at least 13 people and wounded several others during a raid on the southern Syrian town of Beit Jinn. The raid triggered armed clashes with residents, which resulted in the injury of six Israeli soldiers.“I was sitting at home with my wife, when suddenly a missile landed outside our door,” recounts Beit Jinn resident Yasser al-Hadi, “My wife was hit in the chest by shrapnel, in her leg too … We were just sitting in our home wondering why there was gunfire, we didn’t know anything.”The raid triggered a wave of displacement, as residents fled Israeli shelling and airstrikes.

 

[The_Renaissance]

God you are absolutely obsessed aren't you. Tell you what. What if your religion decides to stop eradicating every other religion in your region? Maybe the bigger hammers won't even need to appear in your region. Right? The reason the bigger hammers appear us because your mental religion cannot coexist with anyone who doesn't subject to it. Unlucky. Keep taking losses. As you always have.

 

[Stoic1]

Rogue state

 

[LeonardoBjj]

- So the less noubloe version of Cobra still atacking inocent civilians?

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Rogue state

- Agree, buddy.

 

[Siver!]

God you are absolutely obsessed aren't you. Tell you what. What if your religion decides to stop eradicating every other religion in your region? Maybe the bigger hammers won't even need to appear in your region. Right? The reason the bigger hammers appear us because your mental religion cannot coexist with anyone who doesn't subject to it. Unlucky. Keep taking losses. As you always have.

This an anti-Jewish rant or an anti-Muslim rant?

Hard to distinguish at this point in time.

 

[Koya]

Israel’s Netanyahu says deal with Syria possible but demands buffer zone​

US is pushing for a non-aggression pact between Israel, Syria, but Netanyahu has shown little appetite for compromise.

US President Donald Trump, left, holds hands and speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem on October 13, 2025 [AFP]
https://www.aljazeera.com/author/caolan-magee
By Caolán Magee and News Agencies
Published On 2 Dec 20252 Dec 2025


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said an agreement with Syria is achievable, outlining expectations that Syrian authorities establish a demilitarised buffer zone stretching from Damascus to Jabal al-Sheikh, which Israel currently occupies.

Netanyahu’s comments on Tuesday came a day after US President Donald Trump said he wanted both Syria and Israel to “have a long and prosperous relationship together”.

Talks have been ongoing over a security agreement between Israel and Syria for months, but appear to have made little progress in recent weeks.

Syria does not formally recognise Israel, which has expanded its illegal occupation of Syrian territory over the last year.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war and later illegally annexed the area, a move recognised by the United States but rejected by most of the international community.

Then, after the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, it reneged on a 1974 agreement and expanded further into Syrian territory, seizing areas including the whole of Jabal al-Sheikh, a mountain that commands views over northern Israel and southern Syria.

Israel has repeatedly attacked Syria in the last year, despite the new government in Damascus’s insistence that it is not looking for a fight. Most recently, an Israeli raid last Friday killed 13 people in the town of Beit Jinn, southwest of Damascus.

“What we expect Syria to do is, of course, to establish a demilitarised buffer zone from Damascus to the buffer area, including the approaches to Mount Hermon and the Hermon peak,” Netanyahu said, using the Israeli name for Jabal al-Sheikh, during a visit to wounded soldiers in central Israel.

“We hold these areas in order to ensure the security of Israel’s citizens, and that is what obligates us.”

He added, “With goodwill and an understanding of these principles, it is possible to reach an agreement with the Syrians, but we will stand by our principles in any case.”

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Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, sharply criticised Netanyahu’s demands, calling them “ourageous”.

“If Israel wants a security zone it must do it on it’s own territory. What Netanyahu is asking for more territory from the Syrian country,” Levy told Al Jazeera.

It’s not just about territory, it’s about maintaining the situation of war – it does so in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria – he is interested in continuing the war. There is no ceasefire for him,” he said.

The Trump administration has been attempting to broker a non-aggression pact between the two countries, while the US president has expressed his support for Syria’s new leader, President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Syria demands Israeli forces withdrawal as daily incursions violate sovereignty​

Trump praised what he described as progress under al-Sharaa’s fledgling government, which has promised to unify Syria after years of civil war and sectarian fragmentation.

“The United States is very satisfied with the results displayed, through hard work and determination, in the Country of Syria,” the US president wrote. “We are doing everything within our power to make sure the Government of Syria continues to do what was intended, which is substantial, in order to build a true and prosperous Country.”

“The new President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is working diligently to make sure good things happen, and that both Syria and Israel will have a long and prosperous relationship together,” he added.

Shortly after Trump’s statement, Netanyahu’s office said the two leaders had spoken by phone.

US Special Envoy Tom Barrack was in Damascus on Tuesday, where he met Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaibani to discuss Syria-Israel relations. Barrack had met al-Sharaa on Monday.

Israel and Syria have been in talks for months over a settlement, but Israeli media have recently reported that talks between the two had reached a dead end, mainly as a result of Netanyahu’s unwillingness to compromise on Israel’s refusal to withdraw from the territory it has seized in the last year.

Israel has also reportedly demanded that it be allowed to maintain an aerial corridor to Iran via Syria, in case it needs to use it for future air strikes.

Israel’s Netanyahu says deal with Syria possible but demands buffer zone

US is pushing for a non-aggression pact between Israel, Syria, but Netanyahu has shown little appetite for compromise.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[oski]

God you are absolutely obsessed aren't you. Tell you what. What if your religion decides to stop eradicating every other religion in your region? Maybe the bigger hammers won't even need to appear in your region. Right? The reason the bigger hammers appear us because your mental religion cannot coexist with anyone who doesn't subject to it. Unlucky. Keep taking losses. As you always have.

Israel can never be the victimizer, it can only ever be the victim. If Israel attacks Syria, it's because terrorists attacked them completely unprovoked while Israel was innocently minding its own business trying to commit a little genocide in peace.

If people protest against Israel bombing entire cities into dust, then Israel is the victim because the protests made Israel's supporters feel sad.

DERP

 

[lifelessheap]

Israel is not an ally. Nothing but a parasitic drain. Making the whole world hate US.

 

[William Huggins]

Israel is not an ally. Nothing but a parasitic drain. Making the whole world hate US.

The whole world doesn't hate you, stop being a drama queen......... Israel is to the middle East what the UK was to Europe, a small but powerful destabilising factor........

They actually provide lots of intelligence in the area.......

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

The Israelis killed ONLY 13 people? They must have been feeling generous.

 

[PhitePhan]

The whole world doesn't hate you, stop being a drama queen......... Israel is to the middle East what the UK was to Europe, a small but powerful destabilising factor........

They actually provide lots of intelligence in the area.......

How can they provide valuable intelligence “in the area” if they can’t even protect their own borders? Did you see their abysmal preparation and response time on 10/7?

 

[Snubnoze707]

How can they provide valuable intelligence “in the area” if they can’t even protect their own borders? Did you see their abysmal preparation and response time on 10/7?

In all fairness they were caught completely off guard by a surprise attack that they had advanced detailed knowledge about. Sure, they showed up hours late to the attack in a country the size of New Jersey, and sure they started blowing up a lot of their own people with Apache Helicopters when they arrived, but that was all in the fog of war and confusion by this unexpected surprise attack that they had advanced detailed knowledge about.

 

[lifelessheap]

In all fairness they were caught completely off guard by a surprise attack that they had advanced detailed knowledge about. Sure, they showed up hours late to the attack in a country the size of New Jersey, and sure they started blowing up a lot of their own people with Apache Helicopters when they arrived, but that was all in the fog of war and confusion by this unexpected surprise attack that they had advanced detailed knowledge about.

Yep. Good thing they didn't create and fund Hamas. And hey, at least their country wasn't literally created through terrorism against the British and the native Palestinian people. And they didn't literally brag about their new terror tactics in the 40's. And at least they haven't attacked like 7 countries in the last few years. And hey, the only reason they can't do that is because they don't control American foreign policy. And at least we didn't fight a war against Iraq because a man named Ben.

 

[William Huggins]

How can they provide valuable intelligence “in the area” if they can’t even protect their own borders? Did you see their abysmal preparation and response time on 10/7?

It was Simchat Torah a holiday which falls at the end of the week-long festival of Sukkot.

Most Countries would have a shit long response time........

Yes they dropped the ball but what do you expect they're literally surrounded, I'm sure they stop plenty we don't know about.......

 

[UberHere]

The Israelis killed ONLY 13 people? They must have been feeling generous.

That’s what I thought when I opened this thread, sadly. Only 13?

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

That’s what I thought when I opened this thread, sadly. Only 13?

Bibi when he found out