Israeli warplanes struck containers in the western Syrian port of Latakia on Monday night, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported. This is a rare Israeli attack on a strategic facility in Syria.
“At around 01:23 today (local time and Greek time), the Israeli enemy launched an air strike with several missiles targeting a container storage area in the commercial port of Lattakia” and the bombing caused a number of fires. without causing casualties, said a source close to the Syrian armed forces in SANA. The same source stated that there was a “return of fire from our air defense arrays”.
Photographs transmitted by SANA show a fire in the container storage area of ​​the port in Lattakia.
Syrian state television later reported that “fire brigades extinguished the fire that broke out in the port of Lattakia after the Israeli attack.”
Since the outbreak of war in Syria in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes, almost entirely from the air, against positions of Syrian government forces and their allies, Iranian and pro-Iranian militias, particularly the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
The Israeli military rarely acknowledges that it is conducting operations in Syria; however, it confirmed earlier this year that it had hit at least 50 targets in the war-torn country last year. The Israeli authorities often say that they will not allow Iran, a sworn enemy of the Jewish state, to build a bridgehead on Syrian territory.
The latest series of Israeli strikes was recorded on November 24, targeting areas where Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah is based in central Syria.
Three Syrian soldiers and two pro-Iranian Hezbollah paramilitaries have been killed in the attacks, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based NGO based in the war-torn country.
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