One Syrian Killed by Israeli Forces in Damascus Countryside
Syria's Al Ekhbaria TV said on Thursday that one Syrian was killed by Israeli forces and seven were arrested when the Israeli military infiltrated at dawn into into Beit Jinn in the Western countryside of Damascus.
The Israeli military said it arrested members of the Palestinian group Hamas in countryside outside Syria's capital Damascus.
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