July 2025 Damascus airstrikes

July 2025 Damascus airstrikes
Part of the 2025 Southern Syria clashes
Damascus
LocationDamascus, Syria
Date16 July 2025
c. 3 p.m. (UTC+3)
Target Syrian Armed Forces
Attack type
Airstrikes
Deaths5+
Injured34+
Perpetrator

On 16 July 2025, Israel conducted airstrikes on several government buildings in Damascus, Syria, including the Syrian military headquarters and the vicinity of the presidential palace. The strikes killed at least 3 people and injured another 34. Israel said that it had struck the buildings as a "warning" in defense of the Druze amid the July 2025 Southern Syria clashes. Israel had invaded parts of Syria in December 2024 and proposed a demilitarized zone in southern Syria, forbidding Syrian troops from moving there.