Suspected Israeli airstrikes hit various locations in Syria
Syria said it downed several missiles it says came from Israel, but there are also reports of casualties.
Suspected Israeli airstrikes hit Syrian military and Iran-backed militia sites Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. There are differing reports on the casualties.
This morning’s aerial assault targeted Syrian military sites outside the central city of Hama. The Syrian army said the missiles were Israeli and claimed to have downed many before they reached their targets. The damage was “material,” the Syrian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
Syrian state media SANA also reported that two soldiers were killed in airstrikes Tuesday night near Deir ez-Zor in the east and in Suwayda, the location of recent anti-government protests, in the south. SANA did not say who carried out these airstrikes, calling them “missile aggression.”
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the two deaths were Syrian soldiers killed by Israeli airstrikes last night against a communications center used by the military and Iran-backed militias outside of Suwayda. The center sustained heavy damage. The observatory also reported that Israeli airstrikes killed five members of Iran-backed militias and destroyed one of their bases in Deir ez-Zor the same evening.
