Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The Israeli Defense Forces launched an attack on Beit Jinn in southern Syria, which killed 13 residents, including two children, and seriously wounded some Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli military described the event as an "exchange of fire" in Beit Jinn, where three of its soldiers were seriously injured. It also said it arrested three people associated with Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanon-based militant group.
The Washington Post reported that, according to their families, there were two girls, ages 4 and 17, and a 10-year-old boy killed.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry called it a "criminal attack carried out by an Israeli occupation army patrol in Beit Jinn. The occupation forces' targeting of the town of Beit Jinn with brutal and deliberate shelling, following their failed incursion, constitutes a full-fledged war crime," Al Jazeera reported.
Syrian civil defense said they weren't able to enter the city to rescue the wounded because the IDF continues to target any movement.
