An NGO monitoring the conflict in Syria said nine people, including five soldiers, were killed in Israel’s airstrikes near Damascus today, the bloodiest since the beginning of the year.
OSDH (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights) reported that an ammunition depot and several outposts linked to Iran’s military presence in Syria were the targets of the Israeli attack.
The official Syrian news agency SANA first disclosed the remainder of the four soldiers killed in the Israeli night attack.
“Our anti-aircraft defense shot down several missiles and the investigation shows that four soldiers were killed, three wounded and property damaged,” a military source told the agency.
A few hours ago, the agency announced that the Syrian air defense had blocked an Israeli attack near Damascus, where AFP reporters heard loud explosions.
Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in the country against army positions, Iranian-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters.
Israel doesn’t usually explain every attack, but since 2011 it has acknowledged several attacks.
The war in Syria has claimed the lives of nearly half a million people and forced nearly half of the country’s population to flee their homes.
source: Noticias
