BEIRUT: Israeli air strikes targeting a weapons depot in Syria on Sunday killed two pro-Iran fighters and wounded three soldiers, a war monitor said.
“Israeli strikes targeted a weapons depot belonging to pro-Iran forces located... between Tartus and Hama provinces,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“Two pro-Iran fighters were killed and three Syrian soldiers were wounded,” he said.
Syrian state news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that “at around 7:15 am (0415 GMT), the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack, firing missiles from the direction of north Lebanon with targets in the Tartus and Hama countryside.” SANA did not specify the target, but said the attack “wounded three soldiers and caused some material losses”, adding that Syrian air defences intercepted some of the missiles.
The Israeli military said it did not comment “on reports in the foreign media”.
Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli warplanes killed three people in a raid on the airport in Aleppo, Syria’s second city, the Observatory said. On Feb 19, an Israeli airstrike killed 15 people in a Damascus district that houses state security agencies, according to the war monitor.
Published in Dawn, March 13th, 2023