{"id":18725,"date":"2025-04-02T23:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=18725"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:47:31","slug":"report-israeli-airstrike-targets-scientific-research-facility-in-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/report-israeli-airstrike-targets-scientific-research-facility-in-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Israeli Airstrike Targets &#8220;Scientific Research Facility&#8221; in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The target, referred to by Syrian officials as a &#8220;scientific research building,&#8221; is believed to be affiliated with military infrastructure. Simultaneous strikes were also reported near the Syrian military airbase known as T4, in Homs and the Hama military airport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ongoing Security Tensions on Northern Front<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The strikes come amid heightened tensions along Israel\u2019s northern border and increased IDF activity in the Golan Heights region.<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d3BSmxl5pzA?si=S2eeIu7IGpCzdUWp\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>This is what the overnight raid by Paratroopers and the Yahalom Unit in Syria looked like. Photo: IDF Spokesperson<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nIn recent weeks, IDF paratroopers, alongside elite <em>Yahalom <\/em>combat engineers, conducted targeted raids based on intelligence leads, uncovering and seizing large caches of weapons\u2014including explosives, mortars, ammunition, tactical gear, and firearms. All discovered materials were destroyed on-site.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18728\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/science-facility-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/science-facility-2.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/science-facility-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/science-facility-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/science-facility-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/science-facility-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/science-facility-2-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our forces raided new outposts in the peak of the Hermon&#8217; area of Syria, archive | Photo: IDF Spokesperson\u2019s Unit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Defending Israel\u2019s Northern Communities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forces from the IDF 210 Division remain deployed across the Golan to secure border communities. \u201cWith views like this, it\u2019s easy to forget we\u2019re looking at enemy territory, but only for a moment,\u201d said Sgt. D., a paratrooper from the 890th Battalion. \u201cEven when things seem quiet, we stay alert. We\u2019re operating near the border villages to prevent surprises and protect our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These developments follow earlier reports of Israeli air defense intercepting rockets fired from Gaza, as the country remains on high alert across multiple fronts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli airstrikes reportedly hit a Syrian military research site in the Barzeh neighborhood of Damascus on Wednesday evening, according to multiple Arabic-language media outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":18726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,6],"tags":[1680,1548,1475,2030],"class_list":["post-18725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idf","category-security","tag-golan","tag-iaf","tag-idf","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Report: Israeli Airstrike Targets &quot;Scientific Research Facility&quot; 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