Israel struck tens of Iranian targets in Syria
following rocket attacks on the Jewish state earlier the day.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) on Tuesday night carried
out a series of strikes against tens of Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria in
response to a rocket attack by
Iranian-backed militia on Israel earlier in the day.
The IDF stated that it carried out “wide-scale strikes
on Iranian Quds Force and Syrian Armed Forces targets in Syria in response to
the rockets fired at Israel by an Iranian force in Syria” early Tuesday
morning.
The targets included surface-to-air missiles,
headquarters, weapons caches and military bases in Syria, the IDF stated, while
providing a detailed map of the locations of the attacks.
During the IAF’s strike, the Syrian air defense fired missiles
at the IAF fighters, despite “clear warnings” by Israel to Syria to refrain
from such fire. The IAF responded by destroying a number of Syrian aerial
defense batteries, the IDF said.
While Syria’s official SANA news reported that two
people were killed in the attack and another two were injured, a Britain-based
war monitoring group reported that 11 people were killed, with seven of the
casualties assumed to be Iranians, according to the Associated
Press.
The Israeli attack was conducted from the Golan Heights
and from Lebanese airspace, and the “majority” of the Israeli missiles were
intercepted by Syria’s air defense system, the report claimed.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which
has assets on the ground in Syria, reported that the Israeli strike generated
explosions that were heard in the capital Damascus and its vicinity.
The SOHR noted that the Israeli attacks were conducted
in areas “where the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian militias are active,” and
that the strike targeted “sites from which the four missiles were
launched from inside the Syrian territory” on the Golan Heights earlier in the
day.
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