Isreal Airstrike
Following a new toll from Israeli strikes on Syria, it has killed one civilian, three government troops, and seven allied foreign fighters, the war monitor today disclosured.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which had previously put the toll from Monday’s strikes at five, reported that Iran-backed paramilitary fighters were among those killed in the attack.
According to the Britain-based monitor, the strikes hit Syrian army positions south of Damascus and positions belonging to Iran-backed paramilitaries, including fighters of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, in the southern province of Daraa.
The Observatory was yet to confirm if Hezbollah fighters were among those killed.
Late yesterday, the Syrian state news agency SANA allegedly said:
“The Zionist enemy carried out a strike… on some of our military positions south of Damascus and our air defences confronted them.
“The Israeli attack led to two martyrs being killed and seven soldiers being wounded.”
The news source which added that the fire had come from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights later said that one civillian was also killed in the attack.