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  • 2 Apr 2025 21:27
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The Israeli occupation launches an aggression on Syria's Damascus, Homs, and Hama, striking different targets.

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  • 'Israel' launches aggression on Syria; scientific center among targetsA photo shows smoke rising following an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital Damascus, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 (Social media)

The Israeli occupation launched an aggression on Wednesday on Syria’s Damascus, Homs, and Hama, targeting a research center and military sites.

An Israeli attack targeted the Scientific Research Center in the Barzeh housing area in the Syrian capital, Damascus, resulting in several injuries, according to medical sources who spoke with Al Mayadeen.

The first moments after the Israeli aggression targeted the scientific research center in #Barzeh in the Syrian capital, #Damascus.#Syria https://t.co/wwylgnrVkp

— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) April 2, 2025

The Israeli occupation also struck the Hama Air Base in central Syria, targeting its infrastructure, amid continued drone overflights over the city.

Local sources said that ambulances rushed to the airport following the Israeli airstrikes, with reports indicating casualties, including martyrs and wounded, inside.

Ambulances rushed to the #Hama military airport following extensive, violent Israeli airstrikes, with reports of martyrs and wounded inside.#Syria https://t.co/cPxVU9Ht6V

— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) April 2, 2025

Local sources informed Al Mayadeen that Israeli forces targeted weapon and ammunition depots, as well as military aircraft at Hama Air Base. The raids also targeted vehicles in the vicinity of the airport and military positions along the Misyaf-Hama road, the sources said, adding that the Israeli airstrikes exceeded 15, with the base now being described as nearly destroyed.

In Homs, local media reported loud explosions in the vicinity of the T4 military airport in the Homs countryside, which Israeli Channel 12 counted as one of the targets of the aggression. 

Israeli advance into Daraa faced by locals

Coinciding with this escalation, local sources reported an Israeli incursion with a number of armored vehicles into the Jabaliya Dam forest in the western Daraa countryside. Israeli artillery has also renewed its shelling on the surrounding areas of Tal Jumu, located between the town of Nawa and the village of Tsil in the western Daraa countryside.

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The sources reported that the Israeli shelling targeted the forested area of Tsil Dam and the surroundings of Tal Jumu.

In the early hours of Thursday, an attempted Israeli advance near the city of Nawa in Daraa governorate was met with armed resistance from locals, who took up arms to repel the expanding Israeli incursion into Syrian territory.

According to Syrian media outlets, 10 citizens were martyred as a result of an Israeli strike that targeted the Horsh al-Jibayleh in western Daraa. Another 10 civilians were injured in the area and were transported to the Nawa Hospital.

According to our local sources, mosques in Nawa called for a general mobilization to confront the intensified Israeli incursion into Nawa and Jasem. Meanwhile, Israeli helicopters heavily patrolled the area's airspace.

Syria condemns latest Israeli aggression

Later, the Syrian Foreign Ministry released a statement condemning the Israeli aggression that targeted the Hama Air Base. 

It said that the bombardment led to the "near-complete destruction" of the base, adding that it resulted in dozens of military and civilian casualties.

Damascus said that the aggression violated both "international law and the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic."

The Israeli assault is part of a broader pattern of attacks on military sites since the ousting of longtime President Bashar al-Assad by Islamist-led factions.

"Israel" has stationed troops along the Golan Heights buffer zone, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the demilitarization of southern Syria, near the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen expressed concern on Tuesday about Israeli statements regarding its intentions to remain in Syria and demands for the complete demilitarization of the south.

At an Arab summit in Cairo in early March, Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, urged the international community to pressure "Israel" to immediately withdraw its forces from southern Syria, describing their presence as a "direct threat" to regional peace.

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