BEIRUT: Israeli airstrikes concentrating on a weapons depot in Syria on Sunday killed two pro-Iran fighters and wounded three troopers, a conflict monitor mentioned.
“Israeli strikes focused a weapons depot belonging to pro-Iran forces positioned… between Tartus and Hama provinces,” mentioned Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“Two pro-Iran fighters had been killed and three Syrian troopers had been wounded,” he advised AFP.
Syrian state information company SANA, citing a army supply, reported that “at round 7:15am (0415 GMT), the Israeli enemy carried out an air assault, firing missiles from the route of north Lebanon with targets within the Tartus and Hama countryside.”
SANA didn’t specify the goal however mentioned the assault “wounded three troopers and triggered some materials losses”, including that Syrian air defences intercepted a few of the missiles.
The Israeli army mentioned it didn’t remark “on experiences within the international media”.
Since Syria’s civil conflict erupted in 2011, Israel has carried out a whole lot of strikes in opposition to its northern neighbour, concentrating on authorities troops in addition to allied Iran-backed forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters.
The Israeli army hardly ever feedback on particular person strikes in opposition to Syria however has vowed repeatedly to maintain up its air marketing campaign to cease arch-foe Iran from consolidating its presence.
On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes killed three individuals in a raid on the airport in Aleppo, Syria’s second metropolis, the Observatory mentioned.
On February 19, an Israeli airstrike killed 15 individuals in a Damascus district that homes state safety companies, based on the conflict monitor.