(13 Jun 2025)
SYRIA ISRAEL INCURSION
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beit Jin, Syria – 12 June 2025
1. House of one of those arrested by Israeli forces during their raid on the Syrian village of of Beit Jin, bullet holes in the wall
2. Close of bullet hole in wall
3. Various of blood stain on the ground
4. Various of Ahmad Hammadi, father of man killed by Israeli forces, pointing at bullet holes in the wall of his house
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Hammadi, father of the man killed by Israeli army:
"My son had schizophrenia, he was not normal, he was a schizophrenic. His cousin, my brother’s son, is paralyzed in the legs, he can’t walk. They arrested him."
6. Various of men gathered at a mourning ceremony for Hammadi’s son
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Walid Okasha, mayor of Beit Jin:
"The man who was killed was not involved in anything for sure.
He might have called them thieves or might have not adhered to the Israeli military call, they shot him. He was left to bleed out with no one to aid him. He was bleeding on the ground for 30 or more until the Israeli military withdrew from the village."
8. Village where Mohammed Hammadi was buried
9. Various shots of the cemetery where Hammadi was buried
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Walid Okasha, mayor of Beit Jin:
"This is the first time since the fall of the (Assad) regime the Israeli military entered the village of Beit Jin. They did enter the outskirts of the village many times before, but it’s the first time they come to the center of Beit Jin, between the homes. We don’t know what was the reason behind that. We don’t have any terrorist organizations here or any group with links to Hamas."
11. Various of an Israeli observatory outpost overlooking the village of Beit Jin
STORYLINE:
A man who was killed by the Israeli army during an incursion in a village in southern Syria, was mentally ill, according to his father and a village official.
Mohammed Hammadi was shot dead by Israel’s military after they raided Beit Jin and arrested several alleged agents of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Syrian officials warned that such incursions stoke regional tensions, while villagers denied having any ties to Hamas.
The Israeli military said those detained during the pre-dawn raid on Beit Jin were suspected of planning attacks against Israel, and that weapons also were found in the area.
Mohammed’s father, Ahmad Hammadi, told The Associated Press that his son had history of schizophrenia.
He said he was shot dead in front of his home, and that he had no links to Hamas. He said two of the captured men were his nephews.
Hammadi and other men in the village mourned Mohammed in a small ceremony near their home.
Israel said it detained several men for questioning. Syria’s Interior Ministry said seven people were captured in the operation.
Village official Walid Okasha denied that Hamas members were in the village and said Israeli troops had entered the outskirts of Beit Jin in recent months, but that this was the first time they entered the center of the town.
Okasha said Mohammad suffered from mental illness and that the seven people taken to Israel were all Syrians, two of them were members of the country’s new security forces.
Since the fall of President Bashar Assad ’s government in early December, Israeli forces have moved into several areas in southern Syria and conducted hundreds of airstrikes throughout the country, destroying assets of the Syrian army.
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