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Israeli Raids Strike Iranian Militia Positions in Syria

Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria (File photo: Reuters)
Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria (File photo: Reuters)
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Israeli Raids Strike Iranian Militia Positions in Syria

Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria (File photo: Reuters)
Missile fire is seen from Damascus, Syria (File photo: Reuters)

Syrian air defenses confronted “hostile” missiles targeting the vicinity of Damascus, Syria’s state news agency said early on Friday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: “Israeli air strikes targeted military positions of the regime forces used by Iranian militias, to develop weapons, in both the scientific research in the Barzeh and Jamraya areas in the countryside of the capital, Damascus.”

The German news agency (dpa) quoted residents living south of Damascus as saying that, "two big explosions rocked south and west of the capital. Syrian air defense forces confronted the missiles that were seen exploding in the air."

"Our air defenses confronted the aggressor's missiles and shot down most of them, and the losses were limited to material," a Syrian military source said in a statement.

Syrian TV showed scenes from the air defenses confronting the targets in the sky of Damascus.

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Gaza Civil Defense Says Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 29

A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
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Gaza Civil Defense Says Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 29

A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed at least 29 Palestinians, including six children near a water distribution point.

The attacks came with apparent deadlock in a week of indirect talks in Qatar between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for a ceasefire in the territory.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that Gaza City was hit by several strikes overnight and in the early morning, killing eight, "including women and children" and wounding others.

An Israeli airstrike hit a family home near the Nuseirat refugee camp, south of Gaza City, resulting in "10 martyrs and several injured", Bassal said.

In central Gaza, six children were among eight people killed when a drone "hit a potable water distribution point in an area for displaced people" in the Nuseirat camp, he added.

Several other people were wounded, he said.

In the territory's south, three people were killed when Israeli jets hit a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the coastal Al-Mawasi area, according to the civil defense spokesman.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has recently intensified its operations across Gaza, more than 21 months into the war triggered by Hamas's October 2023 attack.

On Saturday, the military said fighter jets had hit more than 35 "Hamas terror targets" around Beit Hanun in northern Gaza.

The vast majority of Gaza's population of more than two million people have been displaced at least once during the war, which has created dire humanitarian conditions in the territory.

Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties accessing many areas mean AFP is unable to independently verify tolls and details provided by the civil defense agency and other parties.