Two pro-Iranian militants were killed in the Israeli strike
Israel launched its third strike in Syria on Sunday in less than a week. Two pro-Iranian fighters were killed and five Syrian soldiers were wounded.
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Two pro-Iranian fighters were killed and five Syrian soldiers were wounded in an airstrike Saturday-Sunday night, with Damascus accusing Israel of carrying out the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack in Homs (center) was the third to target Syria in four days. Israel announced on Sunday that it had shot down a drone that was flying over its territory.
On Sunday, “the strikes killed two pro-Iranian fighters, whose nationalities are still unknown, and wounded five members of the Syrian air defense,” said AFP Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
Rami Abdel Rahmane said the two militants were killed when the strikes destroyed a weapons depot belonging to Lebanese Hezbollah forces at Daba military airport, southwest of Homs. Syria
According to the OSDH, the missiles targeted several military positions of Syrian forces aligned with Iran. There was also a fire at the research center.
Two nights in a row
The strikes are attributed to the Jewish state of Damascus. “Today (Sunday) at 00:35 am (Saturday 11:35 pm in Switzerland), the Israeli enemy launched an airstrike from northeast Beirut targeting positions in the city of Homs and its province,” the official Syrian agency said. Citing a military source, Sana said several missiles were intercepted by anti-aircraft defenses.
Damascus was targeted on two consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, in airstrikes blamed by the Syrian regime on the Jewish state. On Thursday, two Syrian soldiers were wounded in an airstrike, the Syrian Defense Ministry said. On Friday, a new attack killed two members of Iran’s ideological army, the Revolutionary Guards, and one of them was injured on Sunday, Guardian’s website Sebanews reported.
“The blood of these high-profile martyrs will not be wasted,” Iranian diplomatic spokesman Nasser Khanani said on Sunday, referring to Friday’s raid. “Tehran reserves the right to retaliate at the appropriate time and place,” he warned.
“Severe Fee”
Israel announced on Sunday that it had shot down the drone. “Helicopters and fighter jets have been dispatched to pursue an unidentified aircraft that appears to have entered Israeli territory from Syria,” the Israeli military said in a statement. “The plane was shot down in an open area,” he said, while a military spokesman confirmed to AFP that the plane was unmanned.
Finally, on Sunday evening, a car bomb exploded in Damascus, Syrian state agency SANA reported, citing a police source. “A civilian car exploded and caught fire without causing any casualties,” according to the same source. “Two people were slightly injured” in the attack on the pick-up truck, the interior ministry said. It is not yet known who is responsible for the attack and who was targeted.
Syria has been ravaged by a civil war, fueled by the suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011 and made more complicated over the years by the intervention of several countries and foreign armed groups. In recent years, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in the country against regime positions, but also against Iranian forces and Hezbollah, an ally of Damascus and Israel’s sworn enemy.
Israel struck twice in March the airport of Aleppo, a city in northern Syria that is heavily influenced by groups controlled by Iran and its allies. On March 7, the first attack killed three people and on March 22, the second caused property damage, according to OSDH. In Damascus, 15 people were killed in an Israeli attack on February 19 in a neighborhood that houses the headquarters of several security services.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at his weekly cabinet meeting that he would “demand huge numbers from regimes that support terrorism beyond Israel’s borders,” without confirming Israel’s responsibility for the attacks. Despite being hit by massive protests against a controversial judicial reform bill, the Jewish state remains “determined” to fight its “enemies on all fronts, everywhere and whenever necessary.”
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