Israel carried out airstrikes on an arms depot in western Syria on Sunday, killing two pro-Iranian fighters and wounding three soldiers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) reported. “Israeli strikes targeted an arms depot belonging to pro-Iranian forces located between the provinces of Tartous and Hama,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of the Observatory who is based in the United Kingdom and has an extensive network of sources in Syria. “Two pro-Iranian fighters were killed and three Syrian soldiers injured,” he said.
According to the Syrian news agency Sana, quoting a military source, “at around 07:15 (04:15 GMT), the Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike, launching missiles (…) at targets in the areas of Tartous and Hama”. “The attack injured three soldiers and caused material losses,” she added, adding that Syrian air defenses intercepted some of the missiles. In Israel, the military said “not to comment on foreign media reports. »
Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in the neighboring country, targeting regime positions as well as Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces, allies of Damascus and sworn enemies of Israel. . Israel rarely comments on strikes on a case-by-case basis, but says it wants to prevent Iran from gaining a foothold on its doorstep. On Tuesday, three people, including a Syrian officer, were killed in an Israeli airstrike against the airport of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, the OSDH then reported. On February 19, 15 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Damascus, which targeted a neighborhood housing several security services.