Israel-Hamas war: Israel strikes Syria after rocket attack, hits Hezbollah sites in Lebanon: Top points

Israeli airstrikes hit the Damascus airport and Syrian military sites late Thursday and early Friday, the Associated Press reported. Syrian media reported Israeli airstrikes at 1.20 am (local time), “targeting several points in the vicinity of Damascus,” which it said caused “some material losses.”

The Israeli-Hamas war has already driven around 85 per cent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people from their homes, levelling the northern part of the territory and heightening fears about a similar fate for the south as Israel’s air and ground offensive widened Friday. Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have streamed into the already overwhelmed town of Rafah in the southernmost end of Gaza in recent days, according to the United Nations.