A member of the Syrian army was killed Wednesday night, Thursday, when Israeli planes fired rockets from the airspace of the partially occupied Golan Heights, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.
"At around 00:50, the Israeli enemy carried out an air raid with several missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting several positions in the south," a source close to the Syrian armed forces told SANA. Arrays of the Syrian air defense were able to intercept and "shoot down most of the missiles", the same source added, explaining that "the attack caused the death of a soldier and material damage".
Earlier this month, Israel launched an offensive against an Iranian arms shipment in the western Syrian port of Latakia, with no casualties reported. In late November, three soldiers and two Syrian paramilitaries affiliated with Lebanon's Hezbollah were killed in an Israeli raid, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based non-governmental organization based in the country. 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 war in Syria has claimed the lives of more than half a million people, wreaked havoc on infrastructure and uprooted millions of civilians, who have been displaced and displaced.
(KYPE-APE-BPE-AFP-Reuters / GBA)