Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Israeli strikes in Damascus cause ‘material losses’ — Syrian state media


Syria says Israeli strikes on several sites near Damascus cause ‘material losses’



IDF carries out airstrikes against Hezbollah posts in southern Lebanon

The IDF says it carried out airstrikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon’s Kafra and Seddiqine.

It adds that troops also carried out artillery shelling near Houla.

The strikes come in response to recent attacks by Hezbollah and allied terror groups on northern Israel.


Israeli strikes in Damascus cause ‘material losses’ — Syrian state media

Syria’s state-run SANA news agency says Israeli fighter jets carried out strikes against several sites near the capital Damascus, causing “material losses.”

Citing a military source, SANA says the IAF warplanes launched their missiles from over the Golan Heights, and that Syrian air defenses shot down “most of them.”

SANA does not report any injuries in the strikes.

Syrian air defences intercept Israeli strikes in vicinity of Damascus — state media

Syrian air defenaes intercepted Israeli strikes in the vicinity of the capital Damascus, state media says.

Syrian state media gives no further details about the attacks or the intended targets. 

Pro-Iranian Lebanese television al Maydeen says a big explosion was heard in the heavily fortified Sayeda Zainab neighborhood of the Syrian capital where a major Shi’ite shrine is located. It gave no further details.

The Israeli military declines to comment.

Regional intelligence sources say Iran’s Quds Force and militias it backs, whose presence has spread in Syria in recent years, have a strong presence in the Sayeda Zainab neighbourhood of southern Damascus where Iranian backed militias have a string of underground bases.

Iran has been a major backer of President Bashar al-Assad during Syria’s nearly 12-year-old conflict.

Its support for Damascus and the Lebanese group Hezbollah has drawn regular Israeli air strikes meant to curb Tehran’s extraterritorial military power.

Those strikes have ramped up during the Gaza war, with more than half a dozen Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers killed in suspected Israeli strikes on Syria since December.



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