Second Israeli attack on Syrian military positions this year
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, Israeli warplanes targeted military sites of the Syrian government forces in the city of Deir ez-Zor and Abu Kamal area in the southeastern countryside of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor governorate.
The Syrian government official news agency SANA quoted a military source who said “at exactly 1:10 AM, Israeli warplanes targeted positions in the city of Deir ez-Zor and Abu Kamal region.”
The military source indicated that the results of the Israeli bombing are being verified, without addressing the details of the targeting process.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that Israeli planes targeted Ayyash warehouses and the Sa‘ka Forces (Thunderbolt Forces) camp, at the outskirts of Deir ez-Zor, as well as warehouses and headquarters in Abu Kamal and Mayadeen.
SOHR added that the aircraft carried out more than 18 air strikes in the area extending from the city of Deir ez-Zor to the Syrian-Iraqi border in the Abu Kamal desert.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah, and Liwa Fatemiyoun are stationed in these positions, using them as a center for training and preparing fighters.
On January 7, military positions of the Syrian government in the Golan region of south Syria were subjected to Israeli air strikes, with no casualties reported.
During the years of the war in Syria, Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes on military sites of the Syrian government forces, Iranian forces, and Hezbollah.
Israeli army spokesman Hidai Zilberman said in a press statement in December 2020 that Israel had attacked targets in Syria in the past year, and used 500 smart missiles, without any response from Iran or the Syrian regime. He added that Israel had no intention of letting up its pressure campaign against Iran in Syria.