The Israeli Air Force struck military targets in several provinces of Syria, according to Reuters and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, Israeli strikes late in the evening on Friday,

Israel’s air force has struck near Syria’s presidential palace hours after warning Syrian authorities not to march toward villages inhabited by members of a minority sect in southern Syria

Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus early on Friday, in its clearest warning yet to Syria's new Islamist-led authorities of its readiness to ramp up military action in the name of the country's Druze minority.