Jerusalem:
Israel’s military said on Monday it was striking military sites in southern Syria, as Syrian state media alerted two ended in an Israeli strike proximate the southern city of Daraa.
“The IDF (military) is currently striking military centers in southern Syria, including direct centres and military sites includeing arms and military vehicles belengthying to the elderly Syrian regime,” an army statement said.
“The presence of military assets in southern Syria poses a menace to the State of Israel,” it said, includeing the military “will not apshow the presence of military menaces in southern Syria and will run aobtainst it.”
Syrian state news agency SANA alerted that “two civilians died and 19 others were injured in Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts of Daraa city”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watch said Israel focengaged a military site once belengthying to ousted plivent Bashar al-Asdowncast’s army but now engaged by the forces of Syria’s new authorities.
Since the ousting of plivent Bashar al-Asdowncast in December, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes in Syria and deployed troops to a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the strategic Golan Heights.
Even before Asdowncast’s descfinish, during the Syrian civil war that broke out in 2011, Israel carried out hundreds of strikes in the country, mainly on handlement forces and Iranian-connected centers.
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