Skip to main content

Israeli missiles hit Syria for second week in a row

Israel reportedly struck targets in southern Syria on Wednesday. This follows suspected Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian military in late December and November.

GettyImages-1230356879.jpg
An Israeli military vehicle is pictured near a warning sign during a military drill in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on December 30, 2020. - Israeli air strikes in Syria targeting the pro-Damascus Lebanese Hezbollah group and Syrian air defence forces, killed one Syrian soldier and wounded five others, a war monitor said today. — ALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images

Israel reportedly hit Syria with airstrikes for the second week in a row late Wednesday night.

The suspected Israeli missiles hit targets in southern Syria. Syrian air defense shot down some of the missiles, which Israel launched from the Golan Heights, the state-run SANA news outlet reported.

The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Israel struck Syrian government forces, the Lebanese group Hezbollah and Iranian positions west of the city of Suwayda. Three people died and a radar system and weapons depots were destroyed. One of the dead was from a Syrian military radar division, according to the observatory. The London-based organization also said Syrian air defense intercepted some of the missiles.

Israel is suspected of carrying out several airstrikes on Syria in recent weeks. On Dec. 30, Israel struck Syrian military positions west of the capital, Damascus. That followed other airstrikes in late November.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE

Continue reading this exclusive analysis

Original reporting and analysis unavailable elsewhere. Subscribe to AL-MONITOR to read this story and access everything we publish