IDF releases body-camera footage of Syria gun battle that wounded six Israeli soldiers during arrest operation targeting al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya terrorists.

[Damascus] Southwestern rural Damascus witnessed significant military escalation on Friday after Israeli fighter jets carried out intensive airstrikes on the town of Beit Jinn, resulting in a number of dead and wounded, including women and children, according to local sources who spoke to The Media Line.

Israel has carried out frequent strikes across Syria in 2025, hitting targets on the outskirts of Damascus and in the country's south in what it says are efforts to disrupt threats against Israel and to protect the Druze community near the frontier.

Assad raised hopes of a diplomatic reset with Israel, whom many on Syria’s Golan Heights saw as a pragmatic neighbor. Instead, they’ve faced mysterious Israeli detentions and expanded occupation.

Local sources tell Al Jazeera that three people were killed, others wounded in Israeli strikes on the town of Beit Jinn.

Reports of heavy clashes between IDF forces and residents in the town of Beit Jinn, Syria. Israel has not commented so far.

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Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported on November 26 that Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been “increasingly strengthening its military wing in Syria in recent weeks,” particularly around Palestinian refugee camps in Damascus.