Syria says 5 soldiers injured in Israeli strike in Homs
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Five soldiers of the Syrian government forces were wounded in an “Israeli aggression” in Homs and its countryside on Sunday at dawn, Syrian Ministry of Defense said.
“At 00:35 am, Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression from the direction of northeast Beirut targeting some outposts in Homs city and its countryside,” Syria’s state-run news agency SANA said quoting Ministry of Defense.
Two Western intelligence sources who requested anonymity, Reuters reported, said the rocket strikes targeted the T4 air base located west of the ancient city of Palmyra, and al-Dabaa airport near al-Qusayr city near the Lebanese border, an area with members of the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah.
This is the third targeting in a week. On March 31, SANA said Israel launched “bursts of missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a site in Damascus countryside.”
The targeting resulted in the killing of Milad Heydari, the military advisor of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria over the past few years, targeting what it says to be Iranian-backed militia’s strongholds.