Israeli airstrikes hit targets south of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday, killing and injuring a number of people, Syria’s SANA news agency reported.
Both Syria and Iran denied reports that said the strikes killed Iranian nationals or Iranian military advisors. Just over a week ago, Israeli airstrikes on a residential building in Damascus killed five members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“In today’s attack of the Zionist regime fighter jets on Damascus, no Iranian advisory center in Syria was targeted,” Iran’s ambassador to Syria, Hossein Akbari, said of the Monday strikes. “None of the Iranian nationals or military advisers have been martyred.”
Iran’s PressTV reported that at least two civilians were killed by the Israeli airstrikes. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said seven people were killed, including one Syrian who was described as an “escort” for a member of the IRGC. But the reports are not confirmed.
Israel has bombed Syria with impunity for years and has significantly stepped up its strikes on the country since October 7. The strikes are part of what appears to be a strategy by Israel to provoke a wider war in the region that would get the US directly involved.
US officials speaking anonymously to the media have said they fear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might view a major war in Lebanon as key to his political survival. A larger war would also put less scrutiny on the Israeli massacre in Gaza.
No place in the world is safe from US bombs or Israel’s murderous aggression and Terror.
They have been and will continue to be the biggest threat to world peace.
A good day will be IAF fighter jets being blown up out of the sky and on the ground. Russia should allow its S400 to target these terrorist raids.
H*ll, we are already at war with Russia, with our “army” being the poor souls in Ukraine. Syria needs to have the S400. If Israel complains, Russia should tell them to pound sand.