At least 14 dead and 43 wounded in Israeli bombing campaign against Syria

The death toll from a series of bombings launched by Israel last night against northwestern Syria has risen This Monday at 2pmwhile that of wounded is already situated in 43Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.

The campaign of airstrikes against the town of Masyaf and its surroundings caused the death of 14 people, “Six of the injured are in a critical condition,” Faisal Haidar, director of the city’s National Hospital, told SANA.

According to the official version, The Jewish state bombed several military positions, Although the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that at the points attacked Pro-Iranian militias allied to Damascus are present and a regular target of Israel in Syria.

At least four rounds of bombings They reached the region in a period of about three hours, targeting facilities where they are located militia experts backed by Tehran allegedly responsible for developing weapons, the agency said in a statement. NGO.

According to the Observatory, based in the United Kingdom and with a wide network of collaborators on the ground, also Floating structures were attacked on the Syrian coastamong others.

Although he had already done this frequently before and did not usually assume authorship, he Jewish state intensified its bombings against Syrian territory since the beginning of the Gaza war last October.

These actions are often directed against targets of Iranian and pro-Iranian militias present in Syria as allies of Damascus, including the group Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah, which Israel has also been fighting directly across its border with Lebanon for more than ten months.

Last Thursday, an unknown drone hit a truck with weapons supposedly belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the outskirts of the city of Al Bukamalin eastern Syria and near the border with Iraq, according to local organizations.

Such actions have been attributed in the past to Israel, which in recent months has also perpetrated vSeveral targeted attacks on vehicles on the road that connects Damascus with Beirut.

The last of them, at the end of August, in which Three members died of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and one of Hezbollah near the western village of Al Sabboura.

EFE