Damascus, Syria
Syria suffered a new Israeli missile attack on the outskirts of Sunday night. Damascus, indicate a military source and the official Syrian news agency Sana, who did not report any casualties or property damage at the time.
“Our air defenses face Israeli aggression missiles in the Damascus sky and drop some of them,” Sana reported after the first explosions were heard from the capital, around 10.30pm local time.
A military source confirmed to Efe that the aggression came from the Golan occupied by the Israeli Army towards targets around Damascus and that the defenses had overthrown 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 area of ‘Al Saieda Zainab, south of the Syrian capital.
It is, he said, “a bastion of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Lebanese Hezbollah.”
This action occurs only two days The United States launched another bombing against militias backed by Iran, in this case Iraqis, in a warning in Tehran in which between one and 22 fighters were killed, according to sources.
Israel often attacks targets of the Syrian Army and allied Lebanese or Iranian militias on Syrian territory.
The previous attack also took place on February 15 in the vicinity of Damascus and, according to the Observatory, killed nine pro-Iranian militiamen.
But the deadliest attack since the beginning of the year took place last January in the eastern province of Deir al-Zur, in which at least 57 people were killed among government soldiers and pro-Iranian militiamen.