At least 46 soldiers of the Syrian government forces and members of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah died this Friday in a series of bombings carried out by Israel against various positions of the province of Aleppoin the north of Syriareported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The NGO said in a statement that 36 Syrian soldiers, seven Hezbollah fighters and other pro-Iran militants were killed in the attacks, which targeted a Shiite group missile warehouse near Aleppo international airport, as well as other facilities used by the group. ally of Damascus.
According to the Observatory, based in United Kingdom But with a wide network of collaborators on the ground, this is the Israeli attack that has left the most dead on Syrian soil in the last three years.
Likewise, the NGO indicated that the death toll is expected to continue growing because the bombing left “dozens” of people injured in serious condition.
For its part, a military source told the official Syrian news agency SANA that the attack took place around 1:45 local time on Friday (22:45 GMT on Thursday), when “the Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack from Athriya. , southeast of Aleppo”, which caused the death of an unspecified number of “civilians and military personnel.”
Likewise, the Syrian Foreign Ministry described the attack as a “terrorist aggression” and called on the international community to “assume its responsibilities in the face of serious and repeated Israeli violations of the principles of international law.”
This attack occurs a day after Israel attacked the outskirts of Damascus and killed at least two civilians, according to Syrian authorities, in an action that took place just ten days after another perpetrated by the Jewish State against Syrian territory. .
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 carrying out parallel attacks 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 government.
So far this year, the Jewish State has attacked Syrian territory 28 times, most of them by air, according to the Observatory. EFE
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