Israeli airstrikes targeted southern Syria early Wednesday morning, killing eight soldiers and wounding seven more, Syria’s SANA news agency reported.
The strikes targeted the southern Deraa province and came after Israel said rockets were fired from Syria toward Israel. “At about 1:45 am on Wednesday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial act of aggression from the direction of occupied Syrian Golan, targeting several military sites in Deraa countryside,” a military source told SANA.
According to Al Jazeera, the Israeli military said its “fighter jets struck military infrastructure and mortars belonging to the Syrian army in response to the launches towards Israel yesterday [Tuesday].”
It’s unclear if the Syrian military was involved in firing rockets into Israel. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that fighters “loyal to Hezbollah” had “launched rockets towards the occupied Syrian Golan” from the Deraa province, likely referring to Shia militias that operate in Syria.
Later on Wednesday, Israel launched more airstrikes in Syria in the north that hit the Aleppo airport. “Nearly at 1:25 pm on Wednesday, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the Mediterranean Sea, west of Lattakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport, causing material damage to the airport’s runway and it’s now out of service,” a military source told SANA.
Israel has been bombing Syria for years, and the country’s airports became common targets toward the end of 2022. The two separate airstrikes on Wednesday marked at least the 30th time Israeli warplanes bombed Syria this year.
Since the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel and the start of Israel’s Gaza onslaught, Israel has targeted the Aleppo and Damascus airports several times. Israel frames its airstrikes in Syria as operations against Iran and Hezbollah’s presence in the country, but they often kill Syrians and damage civilian infrastructure.
Way to go Israel!! https://media4.giphy.com/media/TiUYdWptTqn8yOk1Dp/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Israel is bringing so many countries together, while it’s ripping them apart at the seams…
Iran has been making preparations for years. Years. Israel will use a tactical nuke on Iran. All we will do is tell Israel, in stern words, “naughty, naughty”, then forget it. The wild card in all of this is Russia.
The winning hand is Russia, Korea, Iran and the Bolivarian Revolution.
GC: I hope you are correct or we have a major problem. the term air strike is becoming frequent and often
“Bolivarian Refolution”??
The new and advanced form of democracy with a hack proof ballot put into practice by Hugo Chávez. Columbia borders Venezuela. It has an airport at the tip of a territory peninsula that reaches to the Amazon. A little further south and one reaches Bolivia. I believe it is named after Simón Bolivar.
Notice now the increased coup tensions on Peru and Ecuador now the US is booted out of Columbia. This is a large and strong part of the world with ties to Iran, China, Cuba and Russia. I watched a nonstop flight of two Russian supersonic bombers land in Venezuela… It was very exciting for all involved.
What matters is what will happen right after Israel nukes Iran.
Will someone else then nuke Israel? It could happen. “Deterrence” from that is likely the only thing that has stayed Israel’s hand so far. Certainly, lack of any desire to kill vast numbers of “animals” is not their problem.
Why does Syria put up with this? Each and every time Israel launches an attack into Syria it’s an act of war- for the life of me I can’t see why Syria doesn’t call it as such and make at least a pretense of retaliation or call Israel bad names in the UN or something. I though Assad was a little tougher than to let his country get punked by a bad neighbor over and over again.
Until now, they held back because they’d lose the war that Israel clearly was willing to start.
If the Syrian Army is to be killed either way, whether it fires at Israel or not, it may as well fire away, and take as many Israeli soldiers with it as it can.
Is that the point for Israel? It wants that war?
Israel, the sick man of Middle East?
“Sick” now in more than one sense of the word.
Better to be sick and alive, than dead or enslaved.
Iran is saying it is ready to take Jerusalem-who is sick?
Actually, that’s not sick but rather a ballsy and yet a foolish move.