Damascus, Syria
Syria suffered another Israeli rocket attack on the city’s neighborhood on Sunday night Damascus, indicated a military source and the official Syrian news agency Sana, which did not report any casualties or property damage at this time.
“Our anti-aircraft defenses are facing missiles from Israeli aggression in the Damascus sky and shooting down some of them,” Sana reported after the first explosions were heard from the capital, around 10:30 local time.
A military source confirmed to Efe that the aggression came from the Golan occupied by the Israeli army in the direction of the targets around Damascus and that the defense killed most of them.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an organization based in the United Kingdom but with a wide network of collaborators on the ground, said in a statement that the attack was directed around the Al Sayeda Zainab area, south of the capital. Syrian.
He is, he said, “a bastion of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Lebanese Hezbollah.”
This action takes place only two days later The United States will launch another bombing against militias backed by Iranians, in this case Iraqis, in a warning to Tehran in which between one and 22 fighters were killed, according to some sources.
Israel often attacks Syrian army targets and allied Lebanese or Iranian militias on Syrian territory.
The previous attack took place on February 15 in the vicinity of Damascus and, according to the Observatory, caused the death of nine pro-Iranian militiamen.
But the deadliest attack so far this year took place in January last year in the eastern province of Deir al Zur, in which at least 57 people were killed, including government soldiers and pro-Iranian militants.