Syria’s defense ministry claims an Israeli airstrike hit Damascus’s countryside on Tuesday morning.
By REUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Hezbollah weapon warehouse was targeted in an Israeli missile attack in Syria early on Tuesday, according to the Saudi channel Al-Hadath, citing The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Casualties and deaths were reported in the area, the source stated.
In addition, according to the report, the warehouse had been destroyed.
According to N12, citing reports, the advanced weapons located in the warehouse had arrived from Iran and were supposed to be transferred to Hezbollah.
Earlier on Tuesday, Syria’s defense ministry said Israel had launched missiles at several military targets outside the Syrian capital, Damascus, resulting in some “material damage.”
Syrian ministry says it ‘shot down some of the missiles’
Syrian air defenses intercepted Israeli “missiles and shot down some of them,” the ministry added in a statement.
According to Maariv, citing reports, the strikes targeted military structures in the al-Kalmon area.
Iran has been a major backer of President Bashar al-Assad during Syria’s nearly 12-year-old conflict. Its support for Damascus and the Lebanese group Hezbollah has drawn regular Israeli air strikes meant to curb Tehran’s extraterritorial military power.
Those strikes have ramped up in line with flaring regional tensions since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, with more than half a dozen Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers killed in suspected Israeli strikes on Syria since December.
As a result, the Guards have scaled back deployment of their senior officers in Syria and have planned to rely more on allied Shi’ite militia to preserve their sway there, Reuters reported in February.
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