Israeli strike near Damascus wounds 1 after airbase attack in Syria
What's new: Syria called it the second Israeli strike in a week, after Washington criticized an earlier airbase bombing as escalatory.
Israel struck near Damascus on Saturday, with Syrian officials saying a drone hit a civilian car near Beit Jinn and wounded one person. Israel said it targeted a militant in southern Syria who was in the final stages of preparing an attack that posed an immediate threat to its soldiers.
Syria's foreign ministry called the strike a blatant violation of sovereignty and international law, and said civilians were injured. State TV reported one person was hurt. The attack followed an Israeli strike earlier this week on the Abu al-Duhur airbase in northwestern Syria, which drew unusual public criticism from US special envoy Tom Barrack as an unnecessary escalation. The latest hit adds to rising friction over Israeli operations in Syria and claims about possible Turkish deployment near Aleppo.