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Thursday, March 13, 2025
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Katz confirms strike on Damascus, threatens Syria’s Sharaa
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Defense Minister Israel Katz confirms that the Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike in the Syrian capital of Damascus a short while ago, while threatening the country’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
“Wherever terror activity against Israel is organized, the extreme Islamic leader al-Jolani will find the Air Force aircraft flying above and striking terror targets,” Katz says, using Sharaa’s nom de guerre.
“Islamic terrorism will not have immunity in Damascus nor anywhere else,” he adds.
He does not say what was targeted in the strike.
