Syrian defence ministry says the ‘aerial aggression’ got here from the Mediterranean and hit quite a few locations.
Israel has focused Iranian army positions in Syria’s Aleppo with an air raid, inflicting some materials harm, in keeping with the Syrian Ministry of Defence.
“Israel carried out an aerial aggression from the course of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Latakia, concentrating on quite a few factors south of town of Aleppo,” the assertion stated on Saturday.
The Syrian state media, citing a army supply, stated “the Israeli enemy carried out an air assault… concentrating on quite a few factors south of town of Aleppo” at about 5:20pm (14:20 GMT) on Saturday.
Professional-government radio station Sham FM stated the assaults had been close to Aleppo’s airport, however didn’t harm it.
“It appears these assaults in Aleppo had been carried out from the ocean,” Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reported from Naqoura in southern Lebanon.
“Warplanes had been located over the Mediterranean once they launched the missiles in the direction of a number of targets within the metropolis of Aleppo.”
Throughout greater than a decade of struggle in Syria, Israel has launched a whole bunch of air raids on its territory, primarily concentrating on Iran-backed forces together with Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, in addition to Syrian military positions.
However Israel intensified its assaults since its army operation in Gaza started on October 7, inflicting tensions throughout the Center East.
Hashem stated the Aleppo assault was “not unprecedented”.
“On a number of events, there have been assaults on Aleppo, on Damascus, and yesterday [Friday] there was an assault on Albu Kamal, an space on the border between Syria and Iraq,” he stated.
“It appears that is a part of a sample, as a result of the group that was linked to Albu Kamal was linked to the Iranian IRGC commander who was killed in Damascus simply days in the past,” he added.
On Monday, an Israeli air raid exterior the Syrian capital Damascus killed a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Sayyed Razi Mousavi was chargeable for coordinating the army alliance between Syria and Iran.
Tit-for-tat on Israel-Lebanon border
The assault on Aleppo got here after one other Israeli air raid on a border city in southern Lebanon earlier on Saturday.
The assault adopted Iran-backed group Hezbollah claiming accountability for 3 assaults on Israeli army bases on the border, Al Jazeera’s Hashem reported.
“There have been a number of Israeli air raids primarily in town of Bint Jbeil … Based on experiences, there aren’t any casualties,” he stated.
“One other city nearer to the border of Israel was additionally hit by an Israeli assault in a residential space. This raises the danger of civilian casualties every day,” he stated.
Israel and Hezbollah, together with a handful of smaller armed teams that function in southern Lebanon, have settled into a gradual rhythm of tit-for-tat exchanges because the Gaza assault started.
At the very least 21,672 Palestinians, most of them ladies and youngsters, have been killed in Gaza in practically three months of Israeli operation, which has additionally displaced practically the strip’s total 2.3 million inhabitants.
The assaults in Syria and Lebanon additionally come amid fears that Israel’s struggle in Gaza may develop right into a wider regional battle.
