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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

Jobar

A Syrian boy carries a toy gun past a destroyed building in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on September 13, 2016, as a truce brokered by Russia and the United States saw guns fall silent at sundown the previous night. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
September 16, 2016, 12:48 pm
Fierce shelling, clashes reported in east Damascus
Despite internationally brokered ceasefire, Syrian military and rebels exchange fire in Jobar district
By AFP
Illustrative: Smoke rises following an explosion in Syria's Quneitra province as Syrian rebels clash with Assad regime forces, seen from the Golan Heights in 2014. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)
September 7, 2014, 7:42 pm
Syria rebels advance near Golan Heights, NGO says
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that fighters took over villages, hills overlooking border post near Quneitra
By AFP
A Syrian army soldier secures the entrance of a tunnel reportedly dug by rebels fighters in Jobar, a mostly rebel-held area on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, on June 2, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Joseph Eid)
July 23, 2014, 10:06 am
Rebel-held eastern Damascus hit by fierce clashes
Jobar district is surrounded by regime-held territory and lies along important access routes to the capital
By AFP
A Syrian army soldier makes his way in a tunnel reportedly previously used by rebel fighters in Jobar, a mostly rebel-held area on the eastern outskirts of Damascus on June 2, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JOSEPH EID)
June 6, 2014, 2:02 pm
Under Damascus, rebels and army battle in maze of tunnels
Sides wage campaigns against each other using ‘world’s largest ever network’ of underground passageways
By Sammy Ketz
Detail from a photograph of the Jobar Synagogue in Damascus, circa 2013. (Moti Kahana)
May 28, 2014, 8:20 am
Pictures said to show historic Damascus synagogue destroyed
After numerous reports of damage from civil war, Jobar’s Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue ‘flattened’ in attack by Assad’s forces on capital’s suburb
By JTA and ToI Staff
Members of a UN investigative team take samples near the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen)
April 11, 2014, 6:43 am
US, UK said probing fresh Syrian chemical attack claims
Four incidents reportedly being investigated, days after Israeli official says Assad used nonlethal chemicals against rebels
By ToI Staff and AP
A young man receives medical treatment after what Syrian rebels claim was a chemical weapons attack in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus on September 12, 2013 screen capture: YouTube)
September 12, 2013, 2:01 pm
Assad forces said to use poison gas in new Damascus attack
Rebel sources say Thursday strike occurred in Jobar neighborhood; ‘UN report to indicate Assad behind Aug. 21 chemical attacks’
By Asher Zeiger
Inscription on the Jobar Synagogue, near Damascus, Syria (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)
April 1, 2013, 2:07 am
Historic Damascus synagogue looted and destroyed
Assad forces, rebels trade blame for destruction of country’s holiest Jewish site; ‘it’s the Syrian heritage regardless of religion,’ says official
By JTA and Yoel Goldman
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens carry a dead body, at the scene where two mortar rounds exploded near an orphanage, at al-Boukhtyar area, in Damascus (photo credit: AP/SANA)
March 13, 2013, 8:06 pm
Syria troops, rebels clash in northern Damascus
EU staff member killed south of capital as two mortar rounds fall near orphanage
Inscription on the Jobar Synagogue, near Damascus, Syria (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)
March 2, 2013, 7:53 am
Syrian troops destroy ancient synagogue
Video posted by rebels shows heavy damage to 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue, one of Syria’s holiest sites for Jews
By Yoel Goldman
A pro-Morsi demonstration at Cairo's Tahrir Square, August 12 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
August 28, 2012, 1:33 pm
Morsi’s new team pleases some, worries others
France takes a stand on Syria, while Tunisia’s media is on a collision course with the government
By Elhanan Miller
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