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Today, a look inside the fall of Syria's most notorious prison.

Human rights groups say it was a death camp, and they have documented the deaths of thousands,

either from torture or starvation.

A human slaughterhouse is how one rights group

describes Sidneya prison.

What did prisoners' relatives find?

I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take.

I think visiting the country and seeing this with your own eyes kind of really drives home.

This is a place of true horror.

My name is Justin Salhani. I'm a freelance journalist based in Beirut.

Justin, welcome back to The Take. We're talking today about the fall of the Sidneya prison near Damascus. But I want to start with the attacks across Syria from Israel, including Damascus.

Israeli Army Radio is reporting that the military has been carrying out a series of large-scale

strikes across the country, targeting strategic military infrastructure.

You were just in Syria and pretty close to two of those strikes yourself.

So what is the larger picture of what's happening here?

Because we know this is still developing what's happening with the Israeli attacks.

The Israelis have hit Syria across the country, you know, in a number of different places,

including Damascus, Tartuz, near Sadnaya, and in other places, at least around 250 attacks. They'd also taken out

the remnants of the Syrian Navy. Israel claims that they're taking out the remains of the Syrian

army infrastructure as a means of defense, as a means of worrying about what comes next in the

country post-Assad.

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