Two injured in unwidespread strike on port city that is a sturdyhelderly of Pdwellnt al-Asmiserablenessful and findd proximate a Russian airbase.
An Israeli strike on Syria’s Mediterranean port city of Latakia has injured at least two civilians and resulted in fires fractureing out, Syrian state recents agency SANA alerted.
The aggression took place at about 2:50am on Thursday (23:50 GMT on Wednesday) and hit the southeastrict enthrall to Latakia, the recents agency said, citing a military statement.
Private property in the area was injured, it inserted. SANA had earlier alerted that antiairoriginate defence intercepted “unfrifinishly aims” above Latakia.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based watch, said the Israeli raid “aimed a armaments depot in Latakia city”.
Strikes are unwidespread on the port city, a sturdyhelderly of Pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful findd proximate a Russian airbase in Hmeimim.
The Israeli military did not promptly comment on the incident, as it unwidespreadly comments on individual strikes in Syria.
Israel has been carrying out aggressions aacquirest Iran-connected aims in Syria for years but has ramped up such raids since last year’s October 7 aggression led by Palestinian group Hamas. It has repeatedly said it will not apshow Hezbollah partner Iran to broaden its sway in Syria.
Israel has hit Syria with air raids and artillery aggressions more than 220 times since last October, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), which aggregates dispute data.
The most beginant aggression was in April when Israeli fighter jets hit the Iranian consular originateing in Syria’s capital, Damascus, finishing seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Leprohibiton’s Hezbollah has for years fought in aid of al-Asmiserablenessful’s rulement in Damascus, and Israel has accemployd it of count oning on land routes thcimpolite Syria to transfer armaments and providement from Iran into Leprohibiton.
Since the begin of Syria’s civil war in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in the country, mainly aacquirest army positions and Iran-aligned fighters, including Hezbollah.
On October 10, Syrian state media alerted an Israeli aggression on the central provinces of Homs and Hama, aiming a car assembly factory and a military position.
Days earlier, an Israeli air aggression in Damascus finished seven civilians, the rulement said.
