Israel launches airstrike on Syria’s Quneitra

DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Israel targeted on Wednesday at dawn military posts of the Syrian government forces in the vicinity of Syria’s the southern city of Quneitra.

“At about 12:30 a.m. at dawn 23-2-2022, the Israeli enemy carried out an act of aggression with a number of surface-to-surface missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some areas in the vicinity of Quneitra, and causing material damages,” the official Syrian news agency SANA cited a military source as saying.

On February 9, Israel launched an airstrike with missiles fired from southeast of Beirut targeting military posts in the vicinity of Damascus killing one soldier and wounding five others.

Israel occasionally targets pro-Iran military militias stationed in different parts of Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights during 2021, counted 39 Israeli airstrikes targeted Iran-backed militias in Syria.

Reporting by Salman al-Harbi