The Israeli military has launched a rare airstrike in the heart of Damascus hitting a Syrian Defense Ministry building, as clashes in the southern Syrian city of Sweida continues to flare.

"Silence and standing idly by are no longer an option,” Druze leader Sheikh Mowafak Tarif wrote. Israel's Druze spiritual leadership called on its community to prepare to assist their Syrian counterparts “by all means necessary,

After pro-regime fighters killed dozens of minority Druze community members in southern Sweida province, Israel warned Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa to leave the community alone. Israel also struck the Syrian army headquarters in a warning to the regime to stop the violence.