... and if you can't believe the Official Syrian News Agency who can you believe?
(SANA) reported, citing a military source.
''At approximately 1:30 p.m. today, the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction of al-Tanf area, targeting a number of buildings in Palmyra City in the Syrian Desert, led to the martyrdom of 36 people, the injury of more than 50 others, and significant material damage to the buildings and the surrounding area,'' the source said in a statement .
Since the beginning of 2011, the Israeli enemy has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, targeting government forces' sites.
The pace of Israeli attacks on Syria has increased in recent weeks, with the escalation of the Israeli war on Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...since September 23.
Israel has recently targeted points near the border crossings linking Syria and Lebanon and has repeatedly targeted residential buildings in a number of areas, including Damascus and Homs, especially the Qusayr area on the border with Lebanon.
| Those, apparently were all attempted delivery of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah. What odds this time is more of the same? Ask, and the internet provides an answer, in this case via Legal Insurrection: |
“A UK-based monitoring group put the death toll at 41 and reported that the strikes hit a weapons depot and other locations in and around an area inhabited by families of Iran-backed militia fighters,” the BBC reported. “The Israeli military said it did not comment on foreign reports,” the broadcaster added.
Other terrorist targets were also reportedly hit in the strike. Israel carried out strikes “targeting a number of buildings in the city of Palmyra” located in central Syria, a regime-owned broadcaster said.
Syrian city of Palmyra right now, lots of Iranian militias in the area https://t.co/oUocfeDkG6 pic.twitter.com/Ee4VDGa2pc
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The strikes come a day after The Wall Street Journal revealed that the Israeli military was uncovering a large cache of Russian-made weapons as it moves deeper into Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon.
“As Israel advances its invasion of southern Lebanon, its troops are finding large troves of Russian weapons, confirming longstanding suspicions in Israel that Hezbollah is enhancing its fighting capacity with the help of sophisticated Russian arms,” the WSJ noted Tuesday.
The Iran-backed terrorist group was receiving the latest weaponry from the Russian stockpiles located in Syria. “Some of the weapons, which include modern Kornet antitank missiles manufactured as recently as 2020, were sent to southern Lebanon in recent years from Russian stockpiles in neighboring Syria,” the business daily reported, citing official Arab and Syrian sources.
In recent months, Israel conducted several airstrikes aimed at Iran-linked weapons dumps linked to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups based in Syria. “Israel has been carrying out strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria for years but has ramped up such raids since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel that sparked the Gaza war,” the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. “The Israeli military said last week it had attacked transit routes on the Syrian-Lebanese border that were used to transfer weapons to Hezbollah.”