An alleged Israeli airstrike targeted sites south of Damascus on Monday night, according to Syrian state news agency SANA.
A Syrian military source told SANA that Israeli aircraft carried out the strike from over the Golan Heights, targeting some points south of Damascus. The source claimed that only material damage was caused, with no casualties reported.
The Syrian Capital Voice site reported on Tuesday morning that the strike had targeted a factory for developing Iranian weapons in the town of Aqraba, south of Damascus.
According to the report, the strike was carried out in a single wave, resulting in the complete destruction of the factory, without any other sites targeted. Five members of pro-Iranian militias, who were protecting the factory, as well as a number of Iranian engineers working on developing weapons, were killed in the strike, according to the Capital Voice.
Photos were shared on social media by loyalists to the Syrian government showing a residential building reportedly damaged by the strike. According to the Capital Voice, the photos showed a building near the factory and that the factory itself had been cordoned off by members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Despite the Capital Voice’s report that no other sites were hit, the opposition-affiliated Halab Today TV reported that an additional warehouse near the Damascus International Airport was hit during the strike as well, resulting in the death of three members of the Syrian military and the injury of six others.
Israel hitting the head of the octopus
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee that “the State of Israel is acting against the head of the octopus of terrorism and not just against its arms.”
“The days of immunity, in which Iran attacks Israel and spreads terrorism through its proxies in the region, but remains untouched – those days are over,” added Bennett. “We operate, at any time and place, and will continue to do so.”
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