Israeli airstrikes on Syria kill 4 soldiers, injure 1
Israeli airstrikes hit central and
coastal regions of Syria early Saturday, killing four soldiers and wounding
one, the Syrian military said.
State media quoted an unidentified
Syrian military official as saying that Israeli warplanes flying over the
Mediterranean fired missiles toward military positions in coastal and central
Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, an opposition war monitor, reported that load explosions were heard in
the coastal province of Latakia as well as Hama and Homs regions in central
Syria. It gave no further details.
Israel has carried out hundreds of
strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years,
but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
Israel has acknowledged, however,
that it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups, such as Lebanon’s
Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Syrian President
Bashar Assad’s forces.
On Nov. 13, an Israeli strike on
central Syria targeting the Shayrat air base killed two soldiers and wounded
three.
