At least 42 soldiers, including soldiers of the Syrian government forces and members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, died this Friday in a series of bombings attributed to Israel against several positions in the province of Aleppo, in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory reported. of Human Rights.
The NGO said in a statement that 36 Syrian soldiers and six Hezbollah fighters were killed in the attacks, which targeted a missile warehouse of the terrorist group near Aleppo international airport, as well as other facilities used by the allied formation in Damascus.
According to the Observatory, based in the United Kingdom but with a wide network of collaborators on the ground, this would be the Israeli operation that has left the most dead on Syrian soil in the last three years.
For its part, a military source told the official Syrian news agency SANA that the attack took place at around 1:45 a.m. local time on Friday (22:45 GMT on Thursday), when “the Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack from Athriya, southeast of Aleppo.”
This attack comes a day after Israel attacked the outskirts of Damascus and injured at least two civilians, according to the Syrian Ministry of Defense, in an action that took place just ten days after another IDF operation against territory Sirius.
The Observatory then stated that the target were Hezbollah weapons warehouses, which Israel has been confronting on the Israeli-Lebanese border since last October and against whom it has been simultaneously attacking in Syrian territory.
Although they have already taken place relatively frequently before, Israel has intensified its actions against Syria since the start of the Gaza war on October 7 and often targets pro-Iran militias present in the country as allies of the Syrian regime.
So far this year, 28 operations in Syrian territory are attributed to the Jewish State, most of them by air, according to the Observatory.
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