"Israel killed 13 people, including two children, in strikes on Syria on Friday after locals resisted an incursion by the Israeli army. On Friday, Israel killed at least 13 people, including two children, in the Damascus countryside town of Beit Jinn. The latest air raids came after locals tried to repel an Israeli military incursion into Beit Jinn, leading to clashes."
"The Israeli army's 55th Reserve Brigade raided Beit Jinn in the early hours of Friday morning, ostensibly to take three Syrians who live there, claiming they were members of Jamaa al-Islamiya and that they posed a danger to Israel. However, the incursion did not go to plan. Locals resisted, and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the resulting clashes, three of them seriously, according to the Israeli army."
"We were asleep when we were woken up at three in the morning by gunfire, Iyad Daher, a wounded resident, told the AFP news agency from al-Mouwasat Hospital in Damascus. We went outside to see what was happening and saw the Israeli army in the village, soldiers and tanks, Daher said. Then they withdrew, the air force came and the shells started falling."
Thirteen people, including two children, were killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside on Friday. The Israeli army's 55th Reserve Brigade raided Beit Jinn in the early hours to seize three Syrian residents it said were members of Jamaa al-Islamiya. Locals resisted the incursion, and clashes wounded six Israeli soldiers, three seriously. Israeli warplanes then carried out air raids on the town. Jamaa al-Islamiya denied being active outside Lebanon. An eyewitness said residents were woken by gunfire, saw soldiers and tanks, then the air force shelled the village. The attack was the deadliest among Israel's more than 1,000 strikes on Syria.
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