Israeli airstrikes on Damascus kill 15 civilians

Fifteen people were killed in Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Damascus, Syrian state media reported. Israel said the attacks targeted military sites and the headquarters of the Islamic Jihad group.

The buildings targeted were located in the suburbs of Mazzeh and Qudsaya, both in the west of the Syrian capital, citing a Syrian military source.

Israel will attack any attempt to bring weapons to Hezbollah from Syria, Israel's military spokesperson said.

"We are identifying rockets and other weapons that Hezbollah is launching at Israeli territory that were manufactured in Syria," Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said. "We will attack every attempt to bring weapons from Syria to Hezbollah. And we will attack all infrastructure we identify in Syria whose purpose is to produce weapons for Hezbollah."

He added that the military has been carrying out airstrikes from Beirut suburb and Hezbollah stronghold Dahiyeh to Damascus.

He was speaking shortly after Syria's state news agency reported what it said was an Israeli air strike that hit a bridge in Syria near the border with northern Lebanon.

Meanwhile Israel has caused forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza to an extent that constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) spokesperson said.

"Palestinians have been displaced and there's been mass destruction of all civilian infrastructure in those areas. In those areas, Israel has committed ethnic cleansing," Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division at HRW, Adam Coogle, said.

The Israeli military has denied seeking to create permanent buffer zones and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that Palestinians displaced from their homes in northern Gaza would be allowed to return at the end of the war.

The report is the latest in a series from aid groups and international bodies warning about the dire humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave.