Israeli airstrikes target air defense battalion close to Syria’s Tartus port city
In a fresh act of aggression against Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Israeli military aircraft have targeted an air defense battalion near the Arab country’s strategic western port city of Tartus.
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the strikes hit the outskirts of Tartus on Monday night, with no immediate reports available on possible casualties or the extent of damage caused.
Syrian Civil Defense teams and military specialists were quickly dispatched to the area to assess the damage, and locate the exact site of the attacks.
A local television channel reported that the aerial assaults struck an air defense battalion in the coastal city.
Meanwhile, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a large explosion had rattled Tartus port, noting that unidentified aircraft were heard flying overhead at the same time.
The Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee in a statement confirmed the attacks, stating that regime forces had targeted a military site in Qardaha town.
Syrian sources said the raids hit three former Syrian army assets, a radar station north of the town, a weapons depot and a berth near the Mediterranean port of Tartus.
Militant factions, led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, toppled Assad’s government on December 8, 2024.
Since the collapse of Assad’s government, the Israeli military has been launching airstrikes against military installations, facilities, and arsenals belonging to Syria’s now-defunct army.
Israel has been widely and vehemently condemned for termination of the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria, and exploiting the chaos in the Arab nation in the wake of Assad’s downfall to make a land grab.
The buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights was created by the United Nations after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. A UN force of about 1,100 troops had patrolled the area since then.
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