 Hello, you're watching the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Two civilians killed in Israeli attack on Syria. U.S. to shut down Red Hill Tank Farm in Hawaii. U.N. says almost 400 of guns killed since August. And report says Amazon rainforest approaching tipping point. In our first story, at least two civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike near Syria's capital of Damascus on March 7th. The Syrian Arab News Agency, or SANA, also reported substantial material damage to the locality of Dayed Harassad. The missiles were launched from Lebanon's airspace around 5am on Monday. Some of these were intercepted by the Syrian air defense. This was the second such attack by Israel within a fortnight. On February 24th, another unprovoked attack killed at least three Syrian soldiers. Israel did not acknowledge Monday's attack. It has carried out hundreds of such attacks on Syria since the beginning of the war in 2011. Scores of civilians have been killed. Israel often launches such attacks from the occupied Golan Heights or through the illegal use of Lebanon's airspace. It claims to be acting in self-defense against alleged Iranian presence in the country. The Syrian government has rejected these claims and accused Israel of trying to divert efforts to end the war and of aiding terrorist elements against the state. Syria and Lebanon have also approached the United Nations Security Council over these attacks. However, no action has been taken. Commentators have also denounced Western apathy and media silence over Syria. They have also pointed to the Western hypocrisy in imposing sanctions on Russia, but not Israel despite its unprovoked attack on sovereign country and its civilians. The U.S. Defense Department has declared that it will shut down the Red Hill fuel facility in Hawaii. The World War II Iran tank farm is located just 100 feet above Oahu's primary drinking water aquifier. The U.S. Navy announced on November 20th that 14,000 gallons of fuel had spilled at Red Hill. It was only on December 2 that it confirmed that petroleum had been detected in the water. Almost 6,000 people, most of whom were living in military housing, at or around the joint Pearl Harbor Hickam bays became sick. On December 6, Hawaii's Health Department ordered the Navy to immediately suspend its operations at the tank farm. The massive leak led to a further intensification of the native community's years-long struggle against Red Hill. Groups like Oahu Water Protectors or OWP, the Sierra Club and Hawaii Peace and Justice have been organising for months. According to the OWP, the water crisis has displaced 9,000 families and contaminated the water in 93,000 homes in Oahu. The Defense Department has now said that the tank farm's defuelling process will take at least one year. It also said that the Honolulu community will have a say in deciding the future of Red Hill. The OWP has placed a series of demands to the U.S. including full remediation of the aquifier and contaminated sites. Other demands include a community oversight board, restitution to affected families and that Red Hill not be located anywhere else. The military has said it is going to move to a fuelling system in the Indo-Pacific seeking contracts with other countries. The United Nations has stated that at least 397 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan since August 2021. More than 80% of these killings have been attributed to a group affiliated with the ISIL. The UN has documented at least 1153 civilian casualties overall. It has also reported several suicide and non-suicide attacks perpetrated by Islamic state Khurasan province or the ISKP. These were targeted at Shia Muslims mostly from the Hazara ethnic group. The ISKP has also been blamed for a series of attacks in the past months including a bomb blast at the Kabul airport in August. The UN report also points to the extra judicial killing of over 50 people suspected to be linked to the group. This includes cases of beheadings in the Nangarhar province. Human rights defenders have been arbitrarily detained, disappeared and even killed. The UN has also said that the actions of the Taliban have curtailed the fundamental rights and freedoms of women and girls. Many women's protection shelters have also been shut down, leaving them at greater risk. Afghanistan has been plunged into a catastrophic crisis with almost 9 million people facing famine. There has been a rise in child labour, child marriage and sale of children as families grow more desperate. Conditions are set to worsen after the brutal seizure of $7 billion of Afghanistan's own reserves by the Biden administration last month. And for our final story, the Amazon is reaching a tipping point in its ability to recover from disturbances like droughts. Statistical analysis has shown that over 75% of the untouched rainforest has lost stability since the early 2000s. Scientists have said that it is approaching a critical threshold of rainforest dieback. Beyond this, much of the forest will be replaced by grassland. This loss could lead to 90 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. This will have a profound impact on the climate, biodiversity and local communities. The research was conducted by the University of Exeter, the Technical University of Munich and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. It examined satellite data on the amount of vegetation in over 6000 grid cells from 1991 to 2016. In the past two decades, areas impacted by droughts and wildfires took a substantially longer time to recover. Drier areas and areas closer to human destruction of the forest like farms and urban areas became more unstable. Previous studies have also shown that parts of the Amazon are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they can absorb. Researchers have said that 20% of the rainforest has already been lost compared to pre-industrial levels. They have added that deforestation and climate change are likely to be the main drivers of this depletion.