An Israeli strike hit a constructing operated by Syrian safety forces on Thursday. (Representational)
Damascus:
Syria’s defence ministry on Friday mentioned eight troopers had been injured in Israeli air strikes close to Damascus.
On Thursday evening, “the Israeli enemy launched air strikes from the route of the occupied Syrian Golan, focusing on a web site close to Damascus… injuring eight troopers,” the ministry mentioned in an announcement.
Israel hardly ever feedback on particular person strikes however has repeatedly mentioned it is not going to permit its arch-enemy Iran to develop its presence in Syria.
The Israeli army has carried out a whole bunch of strikes in Syria because the outbreak of a civil conflict in its northern neighbour in 2011, primarily focusing on military positions and Iran-backed fighters.
However the strikes elevated after Israel’s conflict with Iran-backed Palestinian operative group Hamas within the Gaza Strip started on October 7.
On April 19, Israeli strikes focused a Syrian military place within the nation’s south, Syria’s authorities and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights conflict monitor mentioned, as US media reported Israel had hit Iran.
In a single day on April 13, Iran launched a whole bunch of drones and missiles in opposition to Israel in an unprecedented assault that got here in retaliation for a lethal strike — broadly blamed on Israel — on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
Syria’s conflict has killed greater than half 1,000,000 individuals and displaced thousands and thousands extra because it erupted in March 2011 with the repression of anti-government protests.
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