Israeli airstrikes target government military posts in south Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Military positions of the Syrian government in the Golan region of south Syria were subjected to Israeli air strikes on Wednesday, with no casualties reported.
The Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source from the Syrian government, who stated that Israeli missiles targeted the southern area of Golan at about 11:10 P.M.
“Syrian air defense confronted the missiles and shot down one of them,” the source added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated that the Israeli strikes targeted sites where Iranian-backed groups and Lebanese Hezbollah are stationed, resulting in deaths and injuries, without specifying their number.
The Israeli raids also targeted military gatherings in the vicinity of the First Division in al-Kiswah area, south of the Syrian capital, where Iranian-backed military groups are deployed, according to SOHR.
SOHR said that powerful explosions were caused by the targeting of anti-aircraft missiles of the Syrian government stationed in al-Mani` Mountain and the 91st Brigade.
This came in addition to similar explosions in the western countryside of Suwayda, as a result of confronting some Israeli missiles, SOHR added.
Israel has launched hundreds airstrikes in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, targeting military posts of government forces, Iranian-backed militias, and Lebanese Hezbollah.
Wednesday’s airstrikes were the first of its kind since the beginning of 2021.
Israel has made no comment on the most resent strikes.
On the 30th of December, a Syrian solder was killed and others were wounded in an Israeli targeting of government air defenses at Nabi Habil summit in the northwestern Damascus countryside.
Israeli army spokesman Hidai Zilberman said in a press statement in late December that Israel does not find any obstacle in targeting what it wants in Syria.
Since the outbreak of the Syrian war, Israel has conducted several air strikes against targets in Syria, most of which were on Iranian forces or Iranian-backed militias’ positions.