"Two pro-Iranian fighters were killed and three Syrian soldiers injured" in Israeli strikes in western Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) said. These new strikes carried out on Sunday March 12 by Israel "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 based in the United Kingdom. United.
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 army said "not to comment on foreign media reports".
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in the neighboring country since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011, targeting positions of the regime as well as those of Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah, 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 March 7, 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.
