(10 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Barzeh, Damascus, Syria - 10 December 2024
1. Various drone shots of damaged Syria Research Centre ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Drone pictures showed the badly damaged Syria Research Centre in Damascus on Tuesday after Israeli airstrikes hit Syria overnight.
Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday.
Israel acknowledged pushing into a buffer zone inside Syria following the overthrow of President Bashar Assad.
But it remained unclear if its soldiers had gone beyond that area, which was established more than 50 years ago. Israel denied it is advancing on the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Israeli officials have said they are striking military targets, including heavy weapons, suspected chemical weapons sites and air-defence systems, to prevent them from falling into the hands of extremists.
Photographs circulating online showed destroyed missile launchers, helicopters and warplanes.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Israel intended to establish a demilitarized zone in southern Syria.
Associated Press reporters in the capital heard heavy airstrikes overnight and into Tuesday morning.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has closely tracked the conflict since the civil war erupted in 2011, said Israel has carried out more than 300 airstrikes across the country since the rebels overthrew Assad.
The Observatory, and Beirut-based Mayadeen TV, which has reporters in Syria, said Israeli troops are advancing up the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon and had come within 25 kilometers (15 miles) of Damascus, which the Israeli military denied.
AP video shot by Gaith Alsayed
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