The death toll from an Israeli air strike on northern Syria’s Aleppo province earlier today has risen to 42, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Al Jazeera reports.

“Forty-two killed, including six from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group” and 36 Syrian soldiers in the Israeli strike targeting a Hezbollah weapons depot, the war monitor reported.

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