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| Israeli strikes on Syrian army targets show co-ordination with "terrorists" including al-Nusra militants, the Syrian foreign ministry has said. | |
| The strikes had led to a number of casualties and widespread damage, it reported in a letter sent to the UN. | |
| Earlier, state media said a research centre had been hit. Israeli sources said they were targeting weapons bounds for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. | Earlier, state media said a research centre had been hit. Israeli sources said they were targeting weapons bounds for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. |
| Syria's government refers to rebels fighting against it as "terrorists". | Syria's government refers to rebels fighting against it as "terrorists". |
| The strike is the second in two days. On Friday Israeli aircraft hit a shipment of missiles near the Lebanon border, according to unnamed US and Israeli officials. | |
| The BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem says the latest developments are a significant escalation in Israel's involvement in the conflict. | |
| "The flagrant Israeli attack on armed forces sites in Syria underlines the co-ordination between 'Israel', terrorist groups and ... the al-Nusra Front," the Syrian foreign ministry statement said, referring to al-Qaeda militants fighting with the rebels. | |
| "The Israeli attack led to the fall of a number of martyrs and wounded from the ranks of Syrian citizens, and led to widespread destruction in these sites and in the civilian districts near to them." | |
| Syrian state TV said the cabinet was holding an extraordinary session to discuss the attack. | |
| Egypt and the Arab League also condemned the strikes and demanded UN action, AFP news agency reported. | |
| 'Biggest explosion' | |
| In the attack Damascus was shaken by repeated explosions coming from the north-western suburbs. | |
| Amateur video footage and eyewitness testimony suggested rocket attacks had hit weapons dumps, triggering dramatic orange-flamed blasts. | |
| The area houses numerous military facilities, including the Jamraya research centre, designated by Syria as a scientific research centre "in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence". | |
| Damascus-based journalist Alaa Ebrahim told the BBC it was "the biggest explosion" the city had seen since the conflict began two years ago. | |
| He said residents living near Jamraya reported feeling a "mild earthquake" just before the blast, indicating that the rockets may have hit an underground facility. | |
| The Jamraya facility was also apparently hit in an Israeli air strike in January. | |
| Israeli officials confirmed the January strike, but insisted it had targeted trucks carrying missiles to Hezbollah. | |
| After the latest attack, unnamed Western intelligence sources have again said the target was a weapons cache heading for Lebanon. | |
| Israel has repeatedly said it would act if it felt advanced weapons were being transferred to militant groups in the region, especially Hezbollah. |