Israeli strikes wound five Syrian soldiers
Published: 05:04 PM,Apr 02,2023 | EDITED : 09:04 PM,Apr 02,2023
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DAMASCUS: Five Syrian soldiers were wounded in the latest Israeli air strike on Syria, state news agency Sana reported on Sunday, with Iran saying two Revolutionary Guards officers died in earlier attacks.
The strike early on Sunday near the western Syrian city of Homs was Israel’s third in recent days after the capital Damascus was targeted on the nights of March 30 and 31, according to the agency.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air assault... targeting positions in the city of Homs and its province,” a military source cited.
Syria’s air defence intercepted several missiles, but five soldiers were wounded and some material damage was reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes targeted several military positions of Syrian government forces and other groups.
The monitor said explosions rocked the city and a fire broke out in a research centre, with ambulances heading to the scene of the attack.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said that in addition to the five wounded Syrian soldiers, several fighters in the research centre had been killed in the strikes.
In the strikes on Friday, Israel launched “several missiles from the occupied Golan Heights” against positions near Damascus.
The Observatory said those strikes had targeted a weapons and ammunition depot of the Syrian military and other groups.
Sepahnews, the website of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Friday that officer Milad Heidari had been killed.
On Sunday, the website reported that Meghdad Mahghani, a military adviser wounded in the same strike, had “attained the high rank of martyrdom”.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani condemned that attack, saying on Sunday that the “blood of these high-ranking martyrs will not go to waste” and that Tehran “reserves its right to respond... at the appropriate time and place”.
Israel conducted several air strikes on Syria in March, according to the Observatory, which has an extensive network of sources in the country.
Last week, an Israeli missile strike destroyed a suspected arms depot at Syria’s Aleppo airport, the war monitor said.
On March 7, three people were killed in an Israeli strike on the same airport that put it out of service. It reopened three days later. And in February, an Israeli air strike killed 15 people in a Damascus district that houses state security agencies, the Observatory said at the time. —AFP
The strike early on Sunday near the western Syrian city of Homs was Israel’s third in recent days after the capital Damascus was targeted on the nights of March 30 and 31, according to the agency.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air assault... targeting positions in the city of Homs and its province,” a military source cited.
Syria’s air defence intercepted several missiles, but five soldiers were wounded and some material damage was reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes targeted several military positions of Syrian government forces and other groups.
The monitor said explosions rocked the city and a fire broke out in a research centre, with ambulances heading to the scene of the attack.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said that in addition to the five wounded Syrian soldiers, several fighters in the research centre had been killed in the strikes.
In the strikes on Friday, Israel launched “several missiles from the occupied Golan Heights” against positions near Damascus.
The Observatory said those strikes had targeted a weapons and ammunition depot of the Syrian military and other groups.
Sepahnews, the website of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Friday that officer Milad Heidari had been killed.
On Sunday, the website reported that Meghdad Mahghani, a military adviser wounded in the same strike, had “attained the high rank of martyrdom”.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani condemned that attack, saying on Sunday that the “blood of these high-ranking martyrs will not go to waste” and that Tehran “reserves its right to respond... at the appropriate time and place”.
Israel conducted several air strikes on Syria in March, according to the Observatory, which has an extensive network of sources in the country.
Last week, an Israeli missile strike destroyed a suspected arms depot at Syria’s Aleppo airport, the war monitor said.
On March 7, three people were killed in an Israeli strike on the same airport that put it out of service. It reopened three days later. And in February, an Israeli air strike killed 15 people in a Damascus district that houses state security agencies, the Observatory said at the time. —AFP