Israeli attacks in Syria kill five, injure over dozen

A series of Israeli strikes hit multiple areas in central Syria late Sunday, killing at least five people, wounding 13 and sparking fires, regime media reported.

News agency SANA reported that Syrian air defences “confronted an aggression that targeted several points in the central region," damaging a highway in Hama province and sparking fires that firefighting teams were battling to control early Monday.

"The number of victims of the Israeli aggression on several sites near Masyaf comes to five deaths and 19 wounded, some of them seriously," said Faysal Haidar, the director of a government hospital at Masyaf, the Sana agency reported.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations.

The strikes often target Syrian forces or Iranian-backed groups.

Israel has vowed to stop Iranian entrenchment in Syria, particularly since Syria is a key route for Iran to send weapons to the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

Hezbollah has been clashing with Israeli forces for the past 11 months against the backdrop of Israel’s war in Gaza.

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Source: TRT