Syria Says Soldier Killed, 3 Wounded in Israeli Strikes

A Syrian boy plays with a tire near sewage canals that run between the tents at a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) near Sarmada, in the northern Syrian province Idlib on June 28, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
A Syrian boy plays with a tire near sewage canals that run between the tents at a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) near Sarmada, in the northern Syrian province Idlib on June 28, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
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Syria Says Soldier Killed, 3 Wounded in Israeli Strikes

A Syrian boy plays with a tire near sewage canals that run between the tents at a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) near Sarmada, in the northern Syrian province Idlib on June 28, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
A Syrian boy plays with a tire near sewage canals that run between the tents at a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) near Sarmada, in the northern Syrian province Idlib on June 28, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)

One Syrian soldier was killed and three others were injured in Israeli air strikes against military sites and a residential building in Damascus early on Sunday, the Syrian army said.
The army said in a statement that the attacks were launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Israeli strikes on Syria increased after the start of the war in Gaza last October.
Sunday's strikes targeted "a number of our military sites in the southern region and one of the residential buildings in the Kafar Souseh area in the city of Damascus," the Syrian army said in a statement.
"Our air defense systems confronted the enemy's missiles despite their density and shot down a considerable number of them."
Israel's army said its strikes were in response to the launch of two drones from Syria towards the north of Eilat on Saturday, which it said were intercepted.



Weaponization of Food in Gaza Constitutes War Crime, UN Rights Office Says

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in west of Gaza City, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in west of Gaza City, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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Weaponization of Food in Gaza Constitutes War Crime, UN Rights Office Says

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in west of Gaza City, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches among the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in west of Gaza City, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that the "weaponization" of food for civilians in Gaza constitutes a war crime, in its strongest remarks yet on a new model of aid distribution run by an Israeli-backed organization.

Over 410 people have been killed by gunshots or shells fired by the Israeli military while trying to reach distribution sites of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation since it began work in late May, UN human rights spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters at a Geneva press briefing.

The death toll has been independently verified by his office, he added.

"Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food," he said, describing the system as "Israel's militarized humanitarian assistance mechanism".

"The weaponization of food for civilians, in addition to restricting or preventing their access to life-sustaining services, constitutes a war crime and, under certain circumstances, may constitute elements of other crimes under international law."

Asked whether Israel was guilty of that war crime, he said: "The legal qualification needs to be made by a court of law."

Israel rejects war crimes charges in Gaza and blames Hamas fighters for harm to civilians for operating among them, which the fighters deny.