Missiles against its port Λαττάκειας, in the west Syria, launched his aircraft Israel today, Tuesday (28/12), launching the second attack against the deployment of strategic importance in December, according to Syrian state media.
The raid caused container fire and “major property damage”, according to the Syrian Ministry of Defense. No casualties were reported. Syrian firefighters put the blaze under control a few hours later at a container dump at the port, the Lattakia governor’s office said.
“At around 03:21, the Israeli enemy launched an air strike, (launching) several rockets in the direction of the Mediterranean (…) against a container dump in the port of Lattakia,” the Syrian state news agency SAN reported. forces. The attack caused “great material damage” and fire, the agency clarified. According to Syrian state television, hospital facade, houses, shops were also damaged.
Russia, the Syrian president’s main ally Bashar al-Assad, has a strategic air base just 20 km from the port of Lattakia, Khimim. Since the outbreak of war in Syria in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes, almost all from the air, against positions of the Syrian government forces and their allies, Iranian and pro-Iranian armed organizations, in particular the Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah.
On December 7, Israel strikes a shipment of Iranian weapons in the port of Latakia, without any casualties being reported even then. It was the first time an attack on the port had been reported since the outbreak of war, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based non-governmental organization based on a vast network of sources in the war-torn country. The bombing also set fire to “commercial containers”, SANA reported.
The chronicle of recent blows
Asked about today’s attack, a representative of the Israelis limited himself to giving the standard answer “we do not comment on foreign media reports”.
The Israeli military rarely acknowledges that it is conducting operations in Syria, but confirmed this year that hit at least 50 targets in the war-torn country last year. The Israeli authorities often say that they will not allow Iran, a sworn enemy of the Jewish state, to build a bridgehead on Syrian territory. Tehran has been providing political, economic and military support to Damascus since the start of the war, according to the APE-MPE.
Israel has recently escalated its blows in Syria. Three Hezbollah militants and two Syrian paramilitaries killed on November 24, in a series of strikes in areas where units of the military wing of the pro-Iranian Lebanese faction are stationed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
On November 3, an airstrike targeted weapons and ammunition depots near Iran in the Damascus region, according to the same NGO. In late October, five pro-Iranian fighters were also killed in a bombing raid on the outskirts of Damascus, while nine others were killed last month in strikes in Homs. Damascus had then spoken of a dead Syrian soldier. Israel’s deadliest attack was recorded on the night of January 13, 2021, when At least 57 fighters of the Syrian regime were killed in the eastern part of the country.
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