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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Paul Henley.
First today, what is the Israeli military doing carrying out attacks on the Syrian capital?
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,
says he's acted in support of the minority Druze community there,
telling the new Syrian government that he won't tolerate Sunni forces being sent into Druze areas south of Damascus.
But is there another motive?
In a moment, we'll hear from a former Israeli ambassador to the US and from NewsHour's Tim Franks,
who is in Damascus.
Israel's picking of a target close to the presidential palace in the capital follows sectarian clashes in Syria this week,
in which dozens of people were killed.