Five people were killed after Israeli missiles struck the Syrian city of Homs. Local sources said that the attacks targeted several Syrian army sites and an air base in the region. Israel has escalated its attacks on targets belonging to factions allied with Iran in Syria since the attack launched by the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Israel on October 7. It also targeted the air defenses of the Syrian army and some Syrian forces.
Published on: 02/07/2024 – 00:26
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Five people, including two civilians, were killed in an air strike Israeli It targeted the Homs area in central Syria On the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, according to what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced, while Damascus announced that the bombing had caused a number of deaths and injuries among civilians.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence France-Presse, “Five people, including two civilians, were killed in the Israeli raids on Homs City“.
For its part, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said in a statement, “The Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of northern Tripoli (in northern Lebanon), targeting a number of points in the city of Homs and its countryside. Our air defense forces intercepted the aggression’s missiles and shot down some of them, and the aggression resulted in the martyrdom of A number of civilians were injured.”
In turn, the official Syrian News Agency (SANA) quoted its correspondent in Homs as saying, “Air defense media are confronting hostile targets in the central region.”
On January 30, eight people were killed, including members of groups loyal to Tehran, in an Israeli bombing that targeted the headquarters of these groups in the Sayyida Zeinab area near Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
On January 20, 13 people were killed, including five advisors to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a building in the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus, according to the Observatory.
These strikes coincide with the war that has been ongoing in the Gaza Strip since October 7, and fears are increasing that it will expand.
Since the war broke out between it and Hamas, Israel has repeatedly targeted Syrian territory.
Last week, the United States targeted Iranian forces and groups loyal to Tehran in Syria and Iraq, in a bombing that left at least 45 people dead, including civilians, in response to the killing of three American soldiers in a march attack on a base in Jordan at the end of January.
Over the past years, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, mainly targeting Iranian and Hezbollah targets, including warehouses and shipments of weapons and ammunition, but also Syrian army sites.
Israel rarely confirms the implementation of these strikes, but it reiterates that it will confront what it describes as efforts by Tehran to consolidate its military presence in Syria.
France 24/AFP
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