The Israel Defense Forces said it struck "the entrance" of Syria's military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday.

Israel intensified its attacks on Syria, striking the country’s military headquarters in Damascus around midday on Wednesday.The Israel Defense Forces, which announced the strike on the gates of the facility,

The Israeli military says it is monitoring "actions being taken against Druze civilians" - but Syria says its forces have been responding to the "source of fire" inside the southern city of Sweida.

The Israeli government has stepped up attacks on Syria’s military in what it says is an attempt to protect the Druze minority group in Syria.

An Israeli military official said, "we are reinforcing forces in the Golan Heights and along the border, ready for a multitude of scenarios."

In rare strikes on Damascus, Israel hit Syria's Defense Ministry in Damascus amid renewed clashes in the southern Syrian city of Sweida.

A stampede at a food distribution site run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip killed 20 Palestinians on Wednesday, the group said, in the first acknowledgment of deadly violence at its operations.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee says Israel should "aggressively investigate the murder of Saif Mussallet" in the occupied West Bank.

An Israeli ultra-Orthodox party that has been a key governing partner of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Tuesday it was leaving the coalition government,

A key governing partner of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it is quitting the government, leaving him with a minority in parliament.