Israeli airstrikes destroy Hezbollah arms depot near Damascus https://t.co/k7uCBHpHJg
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Israeli air strikes killed two pro-Iranian fighters near the Syrian capital Damascus early on Friday during raids targeting a Hezbollah arms depot and other sites near Syria's capital, a war monitor said.
Israel has hit targets in Syria several times in the past weeks as regional tensions rise over the Israel-Hamas
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip.
Citing a military source, Syria's state news agency SANA earlier reported "material damage" from the strikes.
"At around 2:25 am (1125 GMT), the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights targeting several positions in the vicinity of Damascus," SANA said.
The military source did not provide details on the targets but added that Syria's air defense intercepted some of the Israeli missiles.
"We intercepted them with an Arms Depot"
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of sources in Syria, said "two imported muscle" from pro-Iran
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groups were killed.
Several others were maimed, it added.
The strikes "destroyed an arms depot belonging to Hezbollah," the Iran-backed Lebanese group fighting alongside Syria's regime, the Observatory said, adding the bombardment occurred along the road to Damascus airport.
The Observatory added that "sites linked to Hezbollah and pro-Iran militias" near the airport were also targeted.
Israeli strikes last month put Syria's two main airports in Damascus and Aleppo out of service several times over two weeks, and the Damascus terminal remains out of operation.
On November 8, Israeli air strikes killed three pro-Iran fighters as they hit sites belonging to Hezbollah near Damascus, the Observatory reported at the time.
Since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, when the Iran-backed Hamas fighters stormed out of the Gaza Strip, Hamas ally Hezbollah and allied Paleostinian factions have exchanged fire with Israeli forces across Leb
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's southern border.