Israel’s air force in the early hours of Friday, struck near the presidential palace in Syria.
The attack comes hours after a warning to Syrian authorities not to approach villages where members of a minority sect live in the southern part of the country.
Days ago, there were clashes between pro-Syrian government gunmen and fighters who belong to the Druze minority sect near the capital, Damascus. It left dozens of people dead or wounded.
In a statement, the Israeli army said fighter jets struck adjacent to the area of the Palace of President Hussein al-Sharaa in Damascus, but provided no further details.
Reports in several Syrian media outlets claimed the strike was close to the People’s Palace on a hill overlooking the city.
More than half of about one million Druze worldwide live in Syria. The Druze religious sect is a minority group that began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam.
Most of the other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel.
In Syria, they largely live in the southern Sweida province and some suburbs of Damascus.
