Israeli raids on Hezbollah targets near Damascus

Israeli airstrikes today targeted Lebanese Hezbollah weapons depots on the outskirts of Damascus for the second time in 48 hours, a Syrian non-governmental organization said. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes “targeted Hezbollah weapons depots in Yambrud district”, near Damascus, “and destroyed them and caused a fire”. The non-governmental organisation, which is based in the UK but has an extensive network of sources in Syria, did not report any casualties. For its part, a military source cited by the official Syrian media claimed that “the Israeli enemy carried out an air strike from the occupied Golan, which targeted military positions” in the Damascus region. The same source added that the Syrian air defense took action and “shot down missiles”. Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, the Israeli military has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in the neighboring country, mainly targeting pro-Iranian organizations, including […]
Source: News Beast

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