An Israeli strike hit a constructing operated by Syrian safety forces on Thursday. (Representational)
Damascus:
Syria’s defence ministry on Friday stated eight troopers had been injured in Israeli air strikes close to Damascus.
On Thursday night time, ”the Israeli enemy launched air strikes from the path of the occupied Syrian Golan, focusing on a website close to Damascus… injuring eight troopers,” the ministry stated in an announcement.
Israel not often feedback on particular person strikes however has repeatedly stated it won’t permit its arch-enemy Iran to develop its presence in Syria.
The Israeli army has carried out lots of of strikes in Syria for the reason that outbreak of a civil warfare in its northern neighbour in 2011, primarily focusing on military positions and Iran-backed fighters.
However the strikes elevated after Israel’s warfare with Iran-backed Palestinian operative group Hamas within the Gaza Strip started on October 7.
On April 19, Israeli strikes focused a Syrian military place within the nation’s south, Syria’s authorities and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights warfare monitor stated, as US media reported Israel had hit Iran.
In a single day on April 13, Iran launched lots of of drones and missiles in opposition to Israel in an unprecedented assault that got here in retaliation for a lethal strike — extensively blamed on Israel — on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
Syria’s warfare has killed greater than half one million individuals and displaced thousands and thousands extra because it erupted in March 2011 with the repression of anti-government protests.
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