Israeli strike hits Syria’s Latakia, state media reports

Two injured successful uncommon onslaught connected larboard metropolis that is simply a stronghold of President al-Assad and located adjacent a Russian airbase.

An Israeli strike connected Syria’s Mediterranean larboard metropolis of Latakia has injured astatine slightest 2 civilians and resulted successful fires breaking out, Syrian authorities quality bureau SANA reported.

The onslaught took spot astatine astir 2:50am connected Thursday (23:50 GMT connected Wednesday) and deed the southeastern entranceway to Latakia, the quality bureau said, citing a subject statement.

Private spot successful the country was damaged, it added. SANA had earlier reported that antiaircraft defence intercepted “hostile targets” supra Latakia.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based monitor, said the Israeli raid “targeted a weapons depot successful Latakia city”.

Strikes are uncommon connected the larboard city, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad located adjacent a Russian airbase successful Hmeimim.

The Israeli subject did not instantly remark connected the incident, arsenic it seldom comments connected idiosyncratic strikes successful Syria.

Israel has been carrying retired attacks against Iran-linked targets successful Syria for years but has ramped up specified raids since past year’s October 7 onslaught led by Palestinian radical Hamas. It has repeatedly said it volition not let Hezbollah state Iran to grow its power successful Syria.

Israel has deed Syria with aerial raids and artillery attacks much than 220 times since past October, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), which aggregates struggle data.

The astir important onslaught was successful April erstwhile Israeli combatant jets deed the Iranian consular gathering successful Syria’s capital, Damascus, sidesplitting 7 members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has for years fought successful enactment of al-Assad’s authorities successful Damascus, and Israel has accused it of relying connected onshore routes done Syria to transportation weapons and instrumentality from Iran into Lebanon.

Since the commencement of Syria’s civilian warfare successful 2011, Israel has carried retired hundreds of strikes successful the country, chiefly against service positions and Iran-aligned fighters, including Hezbollah.

On October 10, Syrian authorities media reported an Israeli onslaught connected the cardinal provinces of Homs and Hama, targeting a car assembly mill and a subject position.

Days earlier, an Israeli aerial onslaught successful Damascus killed 7 civilians, the authorities said.

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