Several civilians, including a Palestinian citizen, have been injured following the attack of an Israeli military drone in the vicinity of the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to authorities from the Arab country.
The Israeli Army has acknowledged authorship of the operation and has identified the injured Palestinian as a "terrorist who was in the final stages of preparing attacks."
The official Syrian news agency, Sana, has detailed that the attack occurred when the Palestinian was traveling in his car near the town of Beit Jann.
The Syrian government has denounced "in the strongest terms" the "attack" by "the Israeli occupation forces" in Beit Jann, emphasizing that the Israeli drone struck a civilian vehicle.
In a statement, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stressed that the offensive constitutes a "flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic, a flagrant violation of international law and is framed in the context of the repeated Israeli attacks against Syrian territory," mentioning among them the one recorded this same week against an empty military base.
Damascus has called on the international community and the UN Security Council to "assume their legal and political responsibilities and to work to stop these attacks and put an end to the repeated Israeli violations of Syrian sovereignty."
Israel has maintained this type of operation in Syria for months, where it has established a "security zone" in occupied territory since late 2024, coinciding with the peak of the jihadist offensive that ended up ousting the now exiled president Bashar al Assad from power.
The current Syrian authorities maintain a security pact with Israel in the southwest of the country, although the government led by the ex-jihadist Ahmed al Shara has repeatedly demanded that Israeli forces reduce the intensity of their military actions.