Israel Kills dozens of Iran-backed Fighters in the Syria strikes. Russia warns about Dangerous consequences
The Syrian Defense Ministry has accused Israel of launching a series of airstrikes near Aleppo on Friday morning. The strikes, which West Jerusalem has not acknowledged, killed around 40 people, according to media reports.
“Around 1:45 am, the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction of Athriya, southeast of Aleppo, targeting a number of points in Aleppo countryside,” the ministry said in a statement. The ministry provided no precise account of casualties or damages, but said that “a number of” civilians and military personnel were killed and wounded.
Reuters put the death toll at 38, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) – an organization based in the UK and affiliated with anti-government militants in Syria – reported 43 deaths.
The SOHR claimed that the strikes targeted concentrations of Syrian soldiers and Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters, as well as a weapons depot located near Aleppo International Airport.
Israel has not commented on the attack, and usually remains quiet about its operations in Syrian skies. Elsewhere, the Jewish state typically takes credit for extraterritorial killings, as was the case later on Friday when an Israeli drone killed Hezbollah deputy missile commander Ali Abed Akhsan Naim in the southern Lebanese region of Bazouriye.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted a video of the strike on social media, which showed a missile striking a car allegedly carrying Naim.
Hezbollah militants and Israeli soldiers have repeatedly engaged in tit-for-tat missile and rocket strikes since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah stated in November that these attacks are aimed at tying up Israeli forces near the Lebanese border and creating “a state of anxiety, anticipation, panic, and fear among the enemy’s political and military leadership.” Shia militia groups in Syria have adopted similar tactics, albeit on a smaller scale.
The frequency and intensity of these cross-border attacks have increased in recent days, however, with Israeli airstrikes killing 16 people – including seven paramedics – in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. The strikes were launched after Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets into Israel, killing one person.
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Russia condemns Israeli strikes on Syria, warns about their dangerous consequences
Russia strongly condemns Israel’s airstrikes on various facilities near Syria’s Aleppo as a flagrant violation of international law and an infringement on Syria’s sovereignty, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
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“Once again, we stress that such aggressive actions against Syria, which constitute a blatant violation of this country’s sovereignty and the fundamental norms of international law, are categorically unacceptable,” she said in a commentary. “We strongly condemn these provocative violent actions, which are fraught with extremely dangerous consequences amid the dramatic escalation of the situation in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
Russian aerospace forces strike terrorists base in Syria’s al-Tanf area
Russia’s aerospace forces struck a base of terrorists from the al-Tanf area in Syria, Yury Popov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry), said on Friday.
“The Russian aerospace forces destroyed a place of the deployment of militants who left the al-Tanf area and were hiding in hard-to-reach areas of the Jebel al-Satih ridge in the Homs governorate,” he said.
He also said that seven violations of the deconfliction protocols of December 9, 2019 linked with the flights by the US-led coalition unmanned aerial vehicles were reported in Syria in the past 24 hours.
Apart from that, in his words, during the day, three shelling attacks on the positions of government forces were reported in the Idlid de-escalation zone from positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic Party of Turkestan (both outlawed in Russia). One Syrian soldier was killed as a result of sniper fire by terrorists inn the Latakia governorate, and another one was wounded after a terrorists’ drone dropped an explosive device on government army positions in the Idlib governorate.
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