Israeli attacks against Syria continued apace over the weekend, with strikes reported against humanitarian aid trucks in the Homs Province of Central Syria. The trucks were carrying food and blankets, along with medical aid, from the Iraqi Red Crescent.
Details are still emerging. The attacks reportedly took place in an industrial area, near a car factory. Three members of the relief teams sent from Iraq were reported wounded in the strikes, and their condition is not at present clear.
It has been reported that in the last 72 hours, some 150 trucks have entered Syria through Iraq’s Abu Kamal border crossing, and that the focus is to offer relief to the large number of Lebanese who have fled into Syria after the Israelis began ground invasions of Lebanese over the past week. Since Israel has been attacking Syria almost daily since then, it’s clear that they couldn’t simply flee from Lebanon to escape the onslaught.
Israel has not commented on the attacks on aid shipments, and probably won’t do so, since such strikes would tend to be embarrassing to them to admit. Israeli media often speculates that such attacks are because Iran is smuggling arms under the guise of humanitarian aid, though clearly it being humanitarian aid isn’t much of an obstacle to Israeli attacks.
Syrian state media reported that they intercepted hostile targets over the Homs Province later in the day, though these reports emerged only after the reports of humanitarian shipments being attacks in the province during the daytime.
Israel has been attacking government targets in Syria throughout that nation’s civil war, though nominally has claimed its neutrality in the conflict. With regional tensions on the rise, attacks inside Syrian territory seem to be increasing as well as most of Israelis other neighbors.
