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At least two members of a pro-government militia were killed in Tuesday’s alleged Israeli strike on the Syrian port of Latakia, according to a war monitor.
The strike before dawn marked the second time Israel has allegedly hit the key cargo hub since the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in 2011. The attack caused significant damage with stacks of containers catching fire.
"Two members of a pro-regime militia were killed in the Israeli strike," said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked monitoring group with questionable funding. "They had suffered serious wounds and gave up the ghost" in a hospital in Latakia earlier today.
Three other militia fighters were also maimed. Syrian state media said the containers hit in the strikes carried "engine oil and spare parts for cars and other vehicles."
But the Observatory says the cargo was "arms and munitions."
Israeli warplanes allegedly fired a number of missiles at the port of the coastal city of Latakia early Tuesday, causing large explosions and fires, in the second alleged Israeli strike in a month on the key facility.
Since the start of the conflict in Syria, Israel has routinely carried out
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s on its strife-torn neighbor, mostly targeting Syrian government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and
Hezbollah fighters.So far this year, Israel has targeted Syria nearly 30 times, killing 130 people including five civilians and 125 loyalist fighters, according to Observatory figures.