{"id":1263958,"date":"2025-07-16T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ready-for-different-scenarios-israel-attacked-the-general-headquarters-of-the-syrian-army\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:48:04","slug":"ready-for-different-scenarios-israel-attacked-the-general-headquarters-of-the-syrian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ready-for-different-scenarios-israel-attacked-the-general-headquarters-of-the-syrian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReady for different scenarios\u201d: Israel attacked the general headquarters of the Syrian army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Israel, defending the Druze minority, launched attacks on Syria, striking the headquarters of the country&#8217;s military General Staff in Damascus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-16\/israel-steps-up-strikes-on-syria-hitting-military-headquarters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> in Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p> Israel said the strikes on Syria were in defense of the Druze community, a minority that the Jewish state has pledged to protect.<\/p>\n<p> The Israel Defense Forces also said that southern Syria would be hit, stressing that they were \u201cprepared for various scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Syrian media reported an explosion in Damascus and drone attacks in Es-Suwayda near Israel. Clashes between Druze and Bedouin have been reported in Syria in recent days. Syria has used troops to quell the violence.<\/p>\n<p> Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that &#8220;the warnings from Damascus are over&#8221; and that strikes would now be carried out. He also added that Israeli forces would continue operations in Suwayda to destroy those who attacked the friends.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Our Druze brothers in Israel, you can count on the Israel Defense Forces to protect your brothers in Syria. Prime Minister Netanyahu and I, as Defense Minister, have made a commitment &#8211; and we will stick to it,&#8221; Katz wrote.<\/p>\n<p> He also published a video of the strike on the General Headquarters of the Syrian Armed Forces in Damascus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\"><p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"iw\"> \u05d7\u05dc\u05d5 \u05d4\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05db\u05d5\u05d0\u05d1\u05d5\u05ea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1kJFFXoiua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1kJFFXoiua<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05db\u201d\u05e5 Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Israel_katz\/status\/1945457931316551890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 16, 2025<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> Syrian media also publish the moment of the strikes on Gentab.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1263958-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> Earlier, US President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/izrail-pohodyvsia-na-dvomisiachne-peremyr-ia-u-sektori-hazy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump announced that Israel had agreed to the terms of a ceasefire in Gaza for a period of 60 days<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> It is worth noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/izrail-hotuietsia-do-udaru-po-iranu-koly-i-chomu-mozhe-rozpochatysia-nova-viyna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel is preparing for a possible resumption of military operations if Iran continues to develop its nuclear program<\/a> .<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel, defending the Druze minority, launched attacks on Syria, striking the headquarters of the country&#8217;s military General Staff in Damascus. This was reported in Bloomberg. Israel said the strikes on Syria were in defense of the Druze community, a minority that the Jewish state has pledged to protect. The Israel Defense Forces also said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1263948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1263958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}