According to a local source who spoke to +963, A drone strike in the countryside of Syria’s Suwayda Governorate killed three people and injured another on Friday, May 2.
The source stated that the drone targeted a site in the village of al-Mazraa, west of the city of Suwayda. In addition to the casualties, the strike caused extensive damage to the targeted location. The site was identified as a farm in the western countryside of Suwayda, owned by a man named Issam Azzam.
Separately, the town of al-Qurayya in Suwayda’s countryside experienced intermittent clashes between local factions and unidentified gunmen. The source reported that unknown gunmen opened fire on a group affiliated with one of the local factions positioned on the town’s western outskirts.
In Damascus, Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike at dawn on Friday, May 02, targeting an area near the presidential palace. The operation was confirmed in a joint statement issued by the offices of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz.
Read more: Israel Strikes Site Near Syrian Presidential Palace.
The statement declared that the Israeli strike on Damascus was intended to send “a clear message to the Syrian government,” emphasising that Israel “will not allow any threat to the Druze.”
Israeli military spokesperson Avichai Adraee added that the air strikes specifically hit the area adjacent to the palace of the president of Syria’s Transitional Administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, May 1, forces from the Ministry of Interior’s Public Security unit, operating under the transitional government, began deploying personnel along the administrative border between the Daraa and Suwayda governorates, according to another security source cited by +963.
The source indicated that the deployment was a preliminary step ahead of a potential entry into the city of Suwayda. Military convoys from General Security are expected to enter from the cities of Busra al-Sham and Busra al-Harir, located in Daraa’s eastern countryside.
The source also noted that General Security had recently withdrawn from Suwayda, leaving the city without any formal security presence from the Syrian transitional government.
