The Israeli Air Force F-15I and F-35I fighter jets suddenly crossed the border on local time July 16, 2025, flying deep into the airspace over Damascus, Syria, and bombed the Syrian Presidential Palace, the Syrian Ministry of Defense building, and the Syrian General Staff building using "bunker buster" earth-penetrating bombs. The whereabouts of the so-called "President" Joulani of Syria and the casualties on site are currently unknown. However, it is confirmed that this time the Israeli Air Force really attacked, directly collapsing the entrance of the Syrian Ministry of Defense building and the Syrian General Staff building, and bombing the main buildings of the Syrian Presidential Palace. This can be considered as a complete break between the Israeli authorities and the Syrian authorities? Israel's bombing of Syria and Iran always targets the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, with steady, accurate, and ruthless strikes. If the so-called "President" Joulani of Syria dies, the civil war in Syria continues, which is exactly what Israel wants. Israel wants Syria to be in chaos. Israel wants to occupy and annex the southern territory of Syria. If the current Syrian government does not comply, then it will bomb. Israel now has 10,000 square kilometers. If it gains 20,000 square kilometers from Syria, its strength will greatly increase. Israel has already gone down the path of repeated violence and will soon fall into the pit it has dug for itself.
Bombing the Syrian General Staff is not the first time the Israeli Defense Forces have done so. In 2012, the place was also bombed, and the former Syrian government's Chief of Staff, Kashuk, died (he was the son-in-law of old Assad). Marah (Major General Marah al-Assad, the brother of former President Bashar al-Assad, who was the commander of the Fourth Armored Division of the former Syrian government forces, and fled to Iraq with 2000 soldiers when the country changed hands, his current whereabouts are unknown) was injured in the bombing and was sent to Moscow for treatment before returning to the battlefield.
Only a few of Syria's S-300 long-range air defense missile systems were taken away by Russia, the Chinese-exported stealth-avoiding radar was destroyed by Israeli Air Force fighter jets, and the remaining Russian-made Pantsir-S1, Buk, and ZSU-23-4 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns were left on the streets without being collected. Kurdish forces even took some SAM-6 air defense missiles back, while the new Syrian armed forces and HTS forces had no decent air defense weapons at all. Therefore, facing the Israeli Air Force's arbitrary bombing of the Syrian General Staff, the Presidential Palace, and the Ministry of Defense building, they had no way to respond.
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