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Five Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli aggression near Lebanon border

Friday, 27 September 2024 10:38 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 27 September 2024 10:38 AM ]

This picture shows the site of an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian side of the Matraba crossing with Lebanon, on September 26, 2024. (By AFP)

Israel has carried out a new aerial assault on Syria, killing five soldiers and injuring another near the country’s border with Lebanon.

Citing a military source, the official SANA news agency reported that the Israeli airstrike targeted a Syrian military site close to the village of Kfeir Yabous, in Damascus countryside, early on Friday.

The deadly attack, which was launched from the direction of Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, came a day after Israeli fighter jets bombed the Matraba border crossing between Lebanon and Syria’s Homs Province.

At least eight people were wounded in the raid that also damaged the crossing point and its surrounding area.

It was the first Israeli strike on Syria since Monday, when the regime intensified its bloody bombing campaign against Lebanon, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

#Syria: Eight people injured in #Israeli bombing of a bridge at #Lebanon-Syria border crossinghttps://t.co/TIZBGneLmV pic.twitter.com/tZUBU49708
— SANAEnglishOfficial (@SANAEnOfficial) September 26, 2024

Israel frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.

The Tel Aviv regime rarely comments on its attacks on Syrian territories, which many see as a knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government’s phenomenal success in confronting and decimating terrorism.

Damascus has time and again called on the UN Security Council to put an end to the regime’s attacks that violate Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The Israeli attacks on Syria come amid the regime’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip which has killed more than 41,500 people, mostly women and children, over the past year.

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